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 25, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 19th instant, and its accompaniments, communicating to me the intelligence of an expedition reported to be organizing in Brooklyn and New York, for the purpose of annexing Canada and Mexico to the United States, and to inform you that I have transmitted a copy thereof to the Attorney General, whose early attention has been invited to the matter.

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.