Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress, Part II

Mr. Hunter to Sir F. Bruce

Department of State, Washington, May 13, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 10th instant, with which you transmitted to me a resolution adopted by the council of the corporation of the city of Toronto, Canada; a letter to Mr. Seward from the mayor of the city of Hamilton, Canada West, together with a copy of resolutions adopted by the corporation of that city, and resolutions of the Grand Division Sons of Temperance, of New Brunswick, which communications and resolutions have been called forth by the assassination of President Lincoln, and the events attendant upon that atrocious act.

I must beg you to convey to the respected sources of these very acceptable expressions of sympathy the grateful acknowledgments of the government and people of the United States.

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

W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary.

Hon. Sir Frederick W. A. Bruce, &c., &c., &c.