Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.
Sir: I have received your despatch of the 15th of January, No. 578, together with an address of citizens of Ashton-under-Lyne to the President of the United States, and I have had the honor of placing that very interesting paper in the hands of the Chief Magistrate.
You are authorized to inform those citizens that the President receives with lively satisfaction their assurances that, under all the disadvantages of a distant position, they have not been unable to understand the policy of this government, and to comprehend how a fixed and summary determination to rescue the state from the assaults of domestic faction is compatible with the policy of lawfully extinguishing the chronic evil of African slavery.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles F. Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.