Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams.
Sir: Your despatch of April 16 (No. 376) has been received, together with the resolutions of the public meetings held at Leicester and Preston, in Lancashire.
I have also the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 17th of April, (No. 381,) together with its accompaniment, the address to the President of the inhabitants of Coventry, in Warwickshire. All these kind and [Page 277] generous expressions of sympathy with the American Union and its cause have been submitted to the President, and read by him with the most grateful emotion.
Having in a recent communication authorized you to acknowledge similar proceedings of like assemblages, held in various parts of Great Britain, I have now the President’s directions to ask you to embrace the proceedings now before me in that general acknowledgment, if it be not too late; and if it shall be too late for that purpose, then I have to request that you will make special and proper acknowledgments to the citizens of Leicester, Preston, and Coventry.
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
Charles Francis Adams, Esq., &c., &c., &c.