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

Mr. Adams to Mr. Seward.

No. 803.]

Legation of the United States, London, November 3, 1864.

Sir: Although not especially requested so to do, I send herewith, for your information, a copy of a resolution adopted at a meeting held at Sunderland on the 7th ultimo. I received it in a letter from William Buckie, esq. The newspapers transmitted by him, containing a report of the proceedings, failed to come to hand.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C.

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Resolution passed at a meeting held at Sunderland on the 7th of October, 1864.

“That this meeting is convinced that slavery was the sole cause o£ the American rebellion, and that the north, in resisting that rebellion, is sustaining the cause of popular government and the freedom of the slaves, while the south is fighting to maintain and extend a slave empire; and that, therefore, this meeting desires to give its whole moral support to the cause of order, of civil freedom, of constitutional government, and of emancipation, all of which are represented by the north in its struggle to maintain the Union.”