Letter
Supreme civil government of the ever-faithful Island of Cuba., May 19, 1864.
[Translation.]
Supreme civil government of the ever-faithful Island of Cuba.
Office of Secretary Political, Havana, May 19, 1864.
Most Excellent Sir: My aide-de-camp, with the person expected, arrived in the steamer Eagle. I request your excellency to render thanks in my name to Mr. Seward for the service which he has rendered to humanity by furnishing the medium through which a great number of human beings will obtain their freedom, whom the desertion of the person referred to would have reduced to slavery. His presence alone in this island a very few hours has given liberty to eighty-six.
I also render thanks to your excellency for the efficiency of your action.
God preserve your excellency many years!
DOMINGO DULCE.
His Excellency the Minister of Spain at Washington.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth
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U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth.