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. Stuart.

Department of State, Washington, September 12, 1863.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your memorandum or the 10th instant, relative to the case of Mr. J. M. Vernon, and to state that the attention of the Secretary of War has been invited to it.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Hon. William Stuart, &c., &c., &c.