REPUBLIC OF HAYTI, PORT-AU-PRINCE,
September 24, 1872.
Sixty-Ninth Year of Independence.
HONORABLE SENATOR,--I eagerly seize the good opportunity
offered me by the departure of our Minister, Citizen S.
Preston, to pray you to receive the testimony of my high
consideration, which does not cease to grow, by reason of the
eminent services which you render daily to the noble cause of
an oppressed people.
I should consider myself as failing in one of my most imperious
duties, if I did not express to you the sentiments of gratitude
which your name awakens in the breast of every one belonging to
the African race.
In assuming the defence of the rights of this people, guided by
the most generous sentiments of your rich nature, by a sincere
love of justice, you have acquired an immortal title to the
gratitude of all the descendants of the African race.
Please to receive this feeble expression of my high esteem for
the noble character of an illustrious citizen, and believe in
the depth of sentiment with which I declare myself, Honorable
Senator,
Your devoted friend,