No. 64.
Mr. Bayard to Mr. da
Costa.
Washington , August 9, 1888.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 31st ultimo, in which you convey an expression of the extreme gratification [Page 76] of the Imperial Government, occasioned by the remarks of the President to the Brazilian minister on the great event of the abolition of slavery in Brazil.
The President is much gratified by this friendly appreciation of his utterances, which were due no less to a feeling of sincere amity towards Brazil and her people than to a full realization in the light of recent events in our own country of the magnitude and importance of the reform peacefully accomplished in Brazil.
Accept, etc.,