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

Mr. Seward to Lord Lyons,.

Department of State, Washington, June 24, 1864.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge, with much satisfaction, the receipt of your note of the 15th instant, communicating to me the copy of a despatch of the 8th instant, from his excellency the governor general of Canada, in relation to the reported passage of persons hostile to the United States through St. John, New Brunswick, and to the precautions which his excellency proposes to adopt to prevent any infringement of the neutrality of her Majesty’s territories by those or any other persons.

I have the honor to be, with high considerations, my lord, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Right Hon. Lord Lyons, &c., &c., &c.