Ernest Dichman to Señor Rico, July 11, 1880

Mr. Dichman to Señor Rico.

Sir: It is with great pleasure that I hasten to acknowledge your note of the 9th instant, in which you are pleased to communicate a copy of a resolution passed by the senate of plenipotentiaries of the United States of Colombia, on the 5th of this month, in which that honorable body expresses its patriotic joy at the occurrence of the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States, and makes entry thereof upon the records of that day’s session.

Permit me to avail myself of your kind offices, by requesting you to inform the honorable senate of plenipotentiaries of the United States of Colombia that I shall bring this act of courtesy on their part immediately to the notice of my government, and to convey to them in advance my assurances of the high appreciation with which it will be acknowledged in the United States.

I also beg to ask you to convey to his Excellency the President of the United States of Colombia my thanks for the courtesies and honors shown to me as the representative of the Government of the United States on the 4th instant, and to assure him that in my reports to Washington I shall not fail to make particular mention of the unusual compliment of the national salute of twenty-one guns which was fired by the orders of his Excellency in honor of the day and of the United States.

With the renewed assurance of my high consideration,

I am, &c.,