“It would be doing you a great injustice, however, to confine this acknowledgment to that address. Your enlightened, truthful, faithful advocacy of the cause of the American Republic and of humanity during the agitations of the past four years entitles your Society to an honourable place in American history, and the history of our age.
“It is a matter of constant regret on my part that, owing to a temporary derangement of business in this Department, which has existed during a portion of the year, the President’s directions in regard to this acknowledgment, and many others, justly due to the friends of our country abroad, as well as at home, have been performed dilatorily and imperfectly.
“I have the honour to inform you that your affecting address to Mrs. Mary Lincoln (which was received by me at the same time with your address to the President) was, without delay, placed in her hands.
“I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
- “Your obedient Servant,
- “William H. Seward.”
- “Your obedient Servant,
Note.—Your Committee have issued and circulated upwards of four hundred thousand books, pamphlets, and tracts, during the three years of its operations; and nearly five hundred official and public meetings have been held in the promotion of the objects of the Society.
Manchester,
- 22nd January, 1866.
Moved by Francis Taylor, Esq., seconded by Samuel Watts, Esq., and unanimously adopted:—
“That the Report now read be adopted; and that the thanks of the Union and Emancipation Society are
