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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley

Department of State, Washington, February 14, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 7th instant, and of the accompanying copy of a despatch from the governor general of Canada, who states therein, with reference to the contemplated raid by the insurgents in Canada upon the towns of Burlington, in Vermont, and Whitehall New York, that the government of Canada will use every exertion to defeat its successful issue; and I will thank you to convey to the governor general an expression of my high appreciation of his disposition to prevent the execution of the raid.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

J. Hume Burnley, Esq., &c., &c., &c.