Mr. Hunter to Sir F. Bruce
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 6th instant, transmitting an address from the Board of Trade of the city of London, Canada West, to the President of the United States; a copy of a resolution adopted by the corporation of the same city; an address from the inhabitants of the town of Galt, in Canada West, to Mr. Seward; a copy of resolutions adopted by a public meeting of the inhabitants of the towns of Berlin and Waterloo, Canada West—all of them having been inspired by the assassination of the late President, and expressing in becoming terms regret at the event, and sympathy with the afflicted family of the deceased, and with the people of the United States.
Thanking you for communicating to me these expressive utterances of friendly communities, I beg you to convey to their respective authors assurances of the grateful sense entertained by the government and people of the United States of the sensibility and sympathy thus evinced. I shall willingly carry out your wishes by forwarding the documents to their proper destinations.
I have the honor to be, with the highest consideration, sir, your obedient servant,
Hon. Sir Frederick W. A. Bruce, &c., &c., &c.