Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.
Sir: Tour despatch of the 7th of May (No. 405) has been received, together with the address of the Trades Union at London to the President of the United States, the remarks made by the committee on placing the address in your hands, and your reply to those remarks. These papers having been submitted to the President, I have now to inform you that your speech on the occasion referred to is approved without qualification. You will inform the Trades Union that the President is profoundly impressed by the liberal sentiments which they have expressed in regard to the United States, as well as by their good wishes for the restoration of our domestic peace upon the only sure and reliable, foundations of national integrity and union. The President, moreover, appreciates the earnest desire which pervades the address of the Trades Union for the preservation of peace and harmony and mutual affection between Great Britain and the United States. This desire seems to him just, natural, wise, and humane, while it is in exact accordance with the earnest wishes of the American people. The President willingly believes that, in the respects to which I have referred, the Trades Union have in fact spoken the voice of the people of Great Britain, and he responds to it, on the part of the American people, with equal directness and earnestness.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.