Allan A. Burton to General Santos Acosta , President of the Senate of Plenipotentiaries , & c ., & c ., & c, July 5, 1866

Mr. Burton to Señor Acosta

The undersigned, minister resident of the United States of America, has had the honor to receive the attentive note which the Hon. General Santos Acosta, president of the senate of plenipotentiaries of the United States of Colombia, was so obliging as to address him on yesterday, communicating a resolution of that august body of the same date, commemorative of the anniversary of the independence of the American Union, and of the names of Washington and Lincoln, the one its father and the other its saviour.

This spontaneous and eloquent manifestation of friendly regard and sympathy has inspired in the undersigned emotions of profound gratitude that will be received by the government and people of his country, to whom he will not delay to make it known, with peculiar sensibility and fraternal appreciation, and on whose part he prays to offer in advance to the honorable senate, and to its members individually, the most sincere thanks.

The undersigned seizes this auspicious occasion to assure his honor the president of the senate of plenipotentiaries of the Colombian Union of his most distinguished consideration and esteem.