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Title: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 10 April 1869
Date: April 10, 1869
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00866
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April 10, 1869.
Hon. Hamilton Fish
Secretary of State.
Sir:
I am in receipt of a letter from you of the 3d inst. stating certain information received by your Department from the Charge d'Affaires of Haiti, relative to the fitting out of a steamer named "Florida" at Chester, Penn. for the service of the insurgents now in arms against his Government. I enclose you herewith a copy of a communication addressed to the United States Attorney for the Eastern Dist. of Penn. upon this subject.
Very resp. yours,
E. R. Hoar,
Attorney Gen.