Mr. Burnley to Mr. Seward
My Dear Sir: Agreeably to your wish, I have telegraphed to the lieutenant governor of New Brunswick relative to the detention of Linus Seely, of the Chesapeake, but I would suggest that the machinery of the law on this side should be put in motion as soon as possible, in order to meet the requirements of the law on the other side, as you will have perceived by the correspondence communicated to you on the subject of the St. Albans’ raiders, and this same Chesapeake, that what is law in Canada is not law in New Brunswick, and that our lieutenant governors are powerless to do more than what such law prescribes.
Believe me, my dear sir, yours, very faithfully,
Hon. William H. Seward, &c., &c., &c.