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, June 19, 1863.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your memorandum of yesterday, relative to the laying down of some uniform rule as to the course to be taken by aliens to establish their claims to exemption from being drafted into the military service of the United States, and to inform you that I shall make no delay in asking a conference with the Secretary of War on this subject.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, your lordship’s obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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