[Confidential ]
No. 287.]
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
Washington, July 5,
1862.
Sir: Your despatch of June 20 (No. 176) has been received.
It is a satisfaction to know that a copy of my despatch 260
has been received and read by Earl Russell. The subject it presents is one of
momentous import. It seems as if the extreme advocates of African slavery and
its most vehement opponents were acting in concert together to precipitate a
servile war — the former by making the most desperate attempts to overthrow the
federal Union, the latter by demanding an edict of universal emancipation as a
lawful and necessary, if not, as they say, the only legitimate, way of saving
the Union.
I reserve remarks upon the military situation for a day
nearer to the departure of the mail.
I am, sir, your
obedient servant,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Esq., &c., &c., &c.
SOURCE: Message of the
President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress at the
Commencement of the Third Session of the Thirty-Seventh Congress, Volume 1,
p. 124
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