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

Lord Lyons to Mr. Seward.

Washington, March 23, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 22d instant, relative to the alleged abduction of Ira Lee and George Cooper from United States territory by a Canadian constable, and to inform you that I have lost no time in calling the attention of the governor general of Canada to the subject.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

LYONS.

Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.