Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 10 April 1869

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Title: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 10 April 1869
Date: April 10, 1869
Creator(s): Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar | Walt Whitman
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00866
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Cite this page: Hoar, Ebenezer Rockwood and Walt Whitman. "Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to Hamilton Fish, 10 April 1869." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 09 May 2025. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
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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.