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. 1328.]

Department of State, Washington, April 4, 1865.

Sir: I have received your despatch of the 14th of March, No. 892, and I give you my thanks for the attention you have shown in sending me so promptly a report of the parliamentary debate held on the 13th instant, upon the appropriation for the defence of Canada.

There is a way in which the British government can render that important dependence of the Crown entirely secure for an indefinite period, and that way is a cheap and easy one. It consists in the practice of simple justice by the British nation towards the United States.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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