ellow-citizens,
the esteem and sincere affection which his talents, his
character, his private and public conduct have won for him, as
well as the particular sentiments of friendship and gratitude I
personally entertain for him.

I pray God that He may have your Excellency always in His Holy
keeping.

Given at the National Palace of Port au Prince, the 29th day of
November, 1877.

Your Good Friend,
(Signed) BOISROND CANAL.

Countersigned.
(Signed.) F. CARRIE, _Secretary of State_.

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COLORED SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN.

UNITED STATES SENATORS.

HIRAM R. REVELS, United States Senator from Mississippi, was born in
Fayetteville, North Carolina, September 1, 1822; desiring to obtain an
education, which was denied in his native State to those of African
descent, he removed to Indiana; spent some time at the Quaker Seminary
in Union County; entered the Methodist ministry; afterward received
further instructions at the Clarke County Seminary, when he became
preacher, teacher, and lecturer among his people in the States of
Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Missouri; at the breaking out of the war,
he was ministering at Baltimore; he assisted in the organization of
the first two Colored regiments in Maryland and Missouri; during a
portion of 1863 and 1864 he taught school in St. Louis, then went to
Vicksburg, and assisted the provost marshal in managing the freedmen
affairs; followed on the heels of the army to Jackson; organized
churches, and lectured; spent the next two years in Kansas and
Missouri in preaching and lecturing on moral and religious subjects;
returned to Mississippi, and settled at Natchez; was chosen presiding
elder of the Methodist Church, and a member of the city council; was
elected a United States Senator from Mississippi as a Republican,
serving from February 25, 1870, to March 3, 1871; was pastor of a
Methodist Episcopal church at Holly Springs, Mississippi; removed to
Indiana, where he was pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
at Richmond.

BLANCHE K. BRUCE, United States Senator from Mississippi, was born in
Prince Edward County, Virginia, March 1, 1841; as his parents were
slaves, he received a limited education; became a planter in
Mississippi in 1869; was a member of the Mississippi Levee Board, and
sheriff and tax-