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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Burnley

Department of State, Washington, December 31, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday, communicating to me the suggestions kindly made by his excellency Viscount Monck, with a view to the detention and punishment of persons who have been plotting on Canadian soil against the neutrality of her Majesty’s dominions; and, in reply, to inform you that they are under consideration.

I must beg you to assure his excellency that the spirit which he has manifested in the matter is cordially appreciated by this government.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD,

J. Hume Burnley, Esq., &c., &c., &c.