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. 467.]

Department of State, Washington, February 3, 1863.

Sir: Your despatch of January 16 (No. 299) has been received, and I have submitted to the President the resolutions which were presented to you by the executive committee of the Emancipation Society. The President approves of the address which you made on that occasion, and authorizes you, in any proper manner, to make known to the gentlemen of the committee his high appreciation of the liberal and friendly sentiments towards this country which they have expressed in their resolutions.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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