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, December 16, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of your note of the 12th instant, transmitting a copy of a note from his excellency the governor general of Canada relative to the alleged existence of a military organization in Canada of fugitives from the United States, which formed the subject of my communication of the 29th ultimo to Lord Lyons.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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