Mr. Seward to Mr. Dayton
Sir: The reception of your despatch of the 27th of April (No. 302) has been already acknowledged. Our information from London (of a date four days later than your communication) encourages a belief that more temperate views are beginning to prevail there, and a corresponding decline of sensibility is observed here. I have not failed, however, to bring your apprehensions of a disturbance of our relations with Great Britain to the knowledge of the President, that he might take into consideration the special measure of precaution which you have suggested.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
William L. Dayton, Esq., &c., &c., &c.