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 6, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 31st ultimo, suggesting that the captain and officers of the Night Hawk, who are still detained as witnesses, may be liberated on bail. In reply, I have the honor to inform you that I have submitted a copy of that note to the favorable attention of the Secretary of the Navy.

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

WILLIAM, H. SEWARD.

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