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, January 3, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge with sincere gratification the receipt of your note of the 31st ultimo, which is accompanied by a general order issued by his excellency the governor general of Canada, having for its object the maintenance of neutrality between the British Provinces and the United States. I hope that the recent scenes so painfully affecting the relations between the two countries may be prevented from recurring.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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