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, April 5,1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 3d instant, and of its accompaniment, relative to the information received from Mr. —— respectingtheraids intended to be made from Canada into theUnited States. I will thank you to convey to the governor general of Canada an expression of my appreciation of his proceedings.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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