Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.
Sir: Your despatch of the 23d of June (No. 437) has been received. The correspondence of Mr. Conway with James M. Mason was not less chimerical than criminal. The President appreciates the generosity manifested by the executive committee of the Emancipation Society in their disclaimer of a previous knowledge of Mr. Conway’s purpose, and of all sympathy with him in his designs, not less injurious to the cause of human rights than disloyal to the Constitution and government of the United States. So far as Mr. Conway is concerned, the government has not thought his proceeding of sufficient importance to adopt any measure in regard to it.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.