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

Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams

No. 1283.]

Department of State, Washington, March 6, 1865.

Sir: Your despatch of the 9th ultimo, No. 872, and its enclosures, containing the result of the judicial proceedings in the Rumble case, has been received, and is approved.

I reserve for a future occasion the expression of my views upon this subject.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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