Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.
Sir: I have received, and have submitted to the President, the very elaborate, logical, and earnest address which is signed Ed. Benort, grand master, and other officers of the Reformed Masonic Order of the reformed rite of Memphis, and I have to request you, in the President’s name, to carry to those gentlemen his grateful acknowledgments for the unanswerable argument in behalf of the cause of the United States which they have produced in a form so very respectful and liberal towards himself.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles F. Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.