Letter

EXCELLENT, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to E. D. Bassett, May 14, 1875

Author

EXCELLENT, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs

Recipient

E. D. Bassett

Date

May 14, 1875

Type

Letter

Language

English

[C.—Inclosure 3 in No. 365.—Translation.]

Mr. Excellent to Mr. Bassett.

Bureau of Foreign Affairs, Port au Prince, May 14, 1875.

Mr. Minister: I have had the honor to receive your letter of the 12th instant; in response to mine of the 8th of this month relative to persons who have been able to find refuge with you, (chez vous.)

Before the government submits to the appreciation of the Cabinet at Washington the case of General Boisrond Canal, it charges me to express to you anew its desire to see you deliver over to it this general, who, finding himself within the scope (sous le coup) of articles 33 and 39 of the treaty of extradition concluded between Hayti and the United States of America, as I have had the honor to announce it to you previously, renders well founded the demand which the government has addressed to you in respect to him, in the object of giving him over to justice.

The government is well persuaded, Mr. Minister, that after a new examination, which it prays you to be pleased to make, of the case, you will recognize the legitimacy of its demand and accede to its desire, convinced, as you will be, that the American Government will not view the case differently.

Be pleased to accept, Mr. Minister, the new assurances of my verv high consideration.

EXCELLENT,
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

Mr. E. D. Bassett, Minister-Besideht af the United States, Port au Prince.

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

Sources

FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P View original source ↗

U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the P.