Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 632.]

Department of State, Washington, June 18, 1862.

Sir: Your despatch of the 5th instant (No. 427) has been received. The exposition of the character of the amended slave trade treaty, given by Lord Palmerston in the House of Commons, has been read here with much satisfaction.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.