Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.
Sir: I have received your despatch of the 2d of June, No. 707, which is accompanied by a copy of a note which you addressed to Earl Russell on the 23d of May last, concerning enlistments for the insurgent marine service in British ports, also a copy of Earl Russell’s acknowledgment of the note, and also copies of voluminous affidavits, which, on occasion of writing that paper, you submitted to her Majesty’s secretary of state for foreign affairs. These papers have been submitted to the President, and I am directed to approve fully of your proceedings therein set forth, and to commend the urgency with which you have therein remonstrated against transactions as palpably unlawful as they are injurious to the United States.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.