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

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons.

Department of State, Washington, February 20, 1863.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your memorandum of yesterday, relative to colored emigrants from the United States for service in the British West Indian colonies, and to inform you that a copy of it has been sent to the Secretary of the Interior for his information and consideration. I have the honor to be your very obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.