Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 6, 1880

No. 575.
Mr. Evarts to Mr. Lowell.

Department of State,
Washington, December 10, 1879.

No. 185.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your No. 216, regarding the proposed law for the abolition of slavery in Cuba; and, in reply, to express to you the satisfaction which is felt by the government at the intelligence on this subject, which your communication conveys; not only in the circumstance of the proposed abolition by Spain, but because this measure must be looked upon as a great step to complete and universal emancipation.

I am, sir, &c.,

WM. M. EVARTS.