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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.

No. 1728.]

Department of State, Washington, March 31, 1866.

Sir: I thank you for your very interesting despatch of the 15th of March, No. 1167. I have read with deep interest the debates which have occurred in Parliament on the subject of the newly proposed reform bill. Whatever difficulty that measure may encounter in Great Britain, it is manifest that it will have the benefit, whatever the weight may be, of a moral opinion throughout the world.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c. &c.,