Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part I

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.]