Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.
Office U. S. Military Telegraph,
War Department, Washington, D.
C.,
May
18, 1864.
Orders have been given for the arrest and punishment of the fabricators and publishers of the spurious proclamation.
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of
State.
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., U. S. Minister Plenipotentiary, London, England.
[Copy to Hon. William L. Dayton, U. S. minister plenipotentiary, Paris.]