Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the President, December 2, 1872, Part II, Volume I

Mr. Hoar Attorney-General, to Mr. Fish, Secretary of State.

Attorney-General’s Office,
Washington, April 10, 1869.

Sir: I am in the receipt of a letter from you of the 3d instant, conveying certain information received by your Department from the chargé d’affaires of Hayti, relative to the fitting out of a steamer named Florida, at Chester, Pennsylvania, for the service of the insurgents now in arms against his government.

I inclose you herewith a copy of a communication addressed to the United States attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania upon this subject.

I have the honor to be yours, &c.,

E. R. HOAR,
Attorney-General.

Hon. Hamilton Fish,
Secretary of State.