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 6th instant, and of the accompanying copy of a despatch from the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, in regard to co-operation with the officials of this government in preventing the successful issue of the insurgent scheme in that province to destroy United States ships, and I will thank you to convey to the lieutenant governor an expression of my high appreciation of his friendly disposition toward the United States.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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