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. 695.]

Department of State, Washington, September 5, 1863.

Sir: Your despatch of August 21 (No. 478) has been received. I have communicated to the President the resolution by which the Union and Emancipation Society of Manchester tendered to him their congratulations upon the recent successes of the national arms, and also their resolution concerning the captivity of General Neal Dow. The President appreciates very highly these expressions of the good feelings of that respected association towards the United States.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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