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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Clay

Department of State, Washington, June 3, 1865.

My Dear Sir: I have received your kind letter of the 25th April last, in which you speak of the future of our country, and I have to thank you for your suggestions concerning the principles with which we should be controlled. While seriously affected by what you communicate, and while cordially agreeing with you, I am yet in too feeble a state of health to answer you otherwise than through an amanuensis.

I am, my dear sir, very faithfully yours,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Cassius M. Clay, Esq., &c.,&c.,&c.