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 10, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge with much satisfaction the receipt of your communication of the 3d instant, in regard to the readiness of the Canadian authorities to prevent the consummation of the hostile intentions of a certain body of men at Halifax, which formed the subject of my note of the 21st ultimo.

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

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

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