Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.
Sir: The citizens of Glasgow, in a public meeting held on the 4th day of February last, adopted, and they have sent through their chairman, William Goven, esquire, to the President of the United States, an address and resolutions expressing just, generous, and fervent sympathies with our country in the great trial through which it is passing for the vindication of self government and of the cause of humanity.
You are authorized to assure the citizens of Glasgow that the President has received their address and resolutions with sincere satisfaction and gratitude. The cause of the United States, seen in the clear, broad light cast upon it by these proceedings, rises to the dignity of one which it would be a crime against civilization to despair of, and much more a crime to forsake or betray.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.