No. 73.
Mr. Washhurne to Mr. Fish.
Legation of
the United States,
Paris, August 3, 1876.
(Received August 16.)
No. 1348.]
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of
your dispatch No. 818, informing me that the “Universal Israelite Alliance”
had conveyed to the President its congratulations on the occasion of the
Centennial Celebration, and requesting me to express to that association,
through its chairman, Mr. Crémieux, the thanks of the President for the
sentiments of sympathy contained in that communication.
In compliance with that request, I have addressed to Mr. Crémieux a letter in
French, of which a copy is herewith inclosed.
I have, &c.,
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
Legation of the United States,
Paris, August 2,
1876.
Sir: The President of the United States has
received the congratulatory letter addressed to him by the central
committee of the Israelitic Alliance on the occasion of the Centennial
of our independence, and I am instructed to thank you for the same.
The President has been touched by the sentiments expressed in that
letter; he has been particularly gratified to learn that the progress
made by the Israelites in the United States and the prosperity which
they there enjoy are considered as an evidence of political liberty, of
religious toleration, and of that real equality which is, among us, the
privilege of every one.
The President entertains the hope that, during the second century of our
history, the same liberty, the same toleration, the same equality, with
all the beneficent consequences resulting therefrom, will become the lot
of your coreligionists throughout the world.
In your capacity as chairman of the Israelitic committee, be pleased,
sir, to be the-interpreter of these sentiments to your colleagues, and
to accept, together with the expression of my sympathy with that cause
of liberty and toleration of which you are so zealous and illustrious an
advocate, the assurance of the high esteem with which your character
inspires me, as likewise my cordial salutations.
- E. B. WASHBURNE,
Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States in
France
- Mr. Adolphe Crémieux,
Senator, Chairman of the Central Committee
of the Israelitic Alliance.
