Mr. Hunter to Mr. Bigelow
Sir: I have received your despatch of the 19th ultimo, No. 96, written from Liverpool, enclosing a translation of Mr. Cochin’s letter to yourself transmitting an address to the President of the United States emanating from a number of gentlemen in France who have organized themselves under the title of the French Committee of Emancipation. Your proposed acknowledgment thereof is approved, and I will thank you to convey to them an expression of the gratification with which the President received this evidence of the earnest desire of so respectable a body of French citizens to aid the people of the United States in their work of amelioration of the condition of that race who have suffered so long all of the evils of slavery.
With reference to the request of Mr. Cochin to be supplied with such documents as are of a nature to render their good wishes available, I enclose a [Page 324] printed copy of the third annual report of the National Freedmen’s Relief Association of the District of Columbia, which you may transmit, if you think proper, to Mr. Cochin,
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
John Bigelow, Esq., &c., &c, &c.