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, November 26, 1864.

My Lord: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communica-tion of the 19th instant, relative to an order alleged to have been issued by General Dix in regard to the recent outrages at St. Albans Vermont; and in reply, to inform your lordship that the matter will receive due consideration.

I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, my lord, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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