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

Sir F. Bruce to Mr. Hunter

Washington, May 19, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to transmit to you the following documents, which have been called forth by the recent assassination of President Lincoln and the attempts to take the lives of the Hon. William H. Seward and Mr. F. W. Seward:

1. Address from the ministers composing the Niagara annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in Canada; forwarded by the governor general of Canada.

2 A copy of a despatch from the governor of the Bahamas, forwarding resolutions of the legislative council and house of assembly of the colony, and a copy of the governor’s message to the two houses.

3. A letter and a minute of resolutions from the council of the borough of Liverpool, England, for Mrs. Lincoln; forwarded by the mayor of Liverpool.

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

FREDERICK W. A. BRUCE.

Hon. William Hunter, &c., &c., &c.

[For enclosures see Appendix, separate volume.]