Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress, Part I

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams

No. 1265.]

Department of State. Washington, February 21, 1865.

Sir. Your despatch of the 26th of January, No. 865, has been received. I thank you for the very careful survey it presents of British national sentiment in regard to our civil war, and for your judicious suggestions touching the con-duct of our affairs in the present crisis. Judging from recent indications, the desire for separation in the south is not now intense enough to induce a resort to the measure of universal emancipation.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles Francis Adams. Esq.,&c., &c., &c.