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

Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward.

Washington, January 12, 1863.

Sir: I have to-day had the honor to receive your note of to-day’s date relative to the outrages committed by the Sioux Indians. I have without any loss of time forwarded a copy of it, as well as a copy of the paper which accompanied it, to the governor general of British North America.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, yours, &c.,

LYONS.

Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c.