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 15, 1864.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Lord Lyons’s note of the 5th instant, together with its accompanying copy of a despatch from the governor general of Canada, relative to the schemes of the insurgents in Canada against the United States.

Accept, sir, renewed assurance of my high consideration.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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