Mr. Hunter to Mr. Adams
Sir: It having appeared from evidence furnished to the Bureau of Military Justice that the atrocious murder of the late President and the attempted assasination of the honorable William H. Seward, Secretary of State, were incited, concerted, and procured by and between Jefferson Davis Jacob Thompson, Clement C. Clay, Beverley Tucker, George N. Sanders, William C. Cleary, and other rebels and traitors against this government, harbored in Canada, President Johnson, with a view to promote the ends of justice, by public proclamation on the 2d instant—a correct copy of which you will find in the “Washington Chronicle” of the 4th instant, which will be forwarded to you by mail—offered pecuniary reward for the arrest of either of said parties within the United States, in order that they may be brought to trial.
I refer you to the files of the same paper for the news of the week.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Francis Adams, &c., &c., &c.