e, December 12,
1861: "I must say with frankness to the Department, that I find my
position much embarrassed by the failure of our government to take any
steps toward acknowledging the nationality of Haiti, or entering into
the usual relations of country, which exist between neighboring
peoples."--To Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Sec. of State, U. S. Commercial
Agency, Port au Prince.

[458] April 18, 1850. Quoted in _N.Y. Tribune_, November 9, 1860.

[459] _Ibid._, November 9, 1860.

[460] "Messages and Papers of the Presidents," Vol. 4, p. 47.

[461] Garrison and Garrison-Garrison, Vol. 4, p. 33. Liberator, 31:
194.

[462] _African Repository_, February, 1862, p. 41.

"The Executive Committee of the American Colonization Society observe
with deep interest that the President of the United States has in his
late message recommended that the Republic of Liberia should be
acknowledged as independent. They also notice his recommendation of
some plan of colonization for free people of color in some clime
congenial to them."

[463] _Ibid._, May, 1862, p. 157.

[464] _Ibid._, April, 1862, p. 111.

[465] _Congress. Globe_, 37th Cong., 2d Session, February 4, 1862.

[466] _Congress. Globe_, 37th Cong., 2d Session, February 4, 1862.

[467] _Globe_, 37th Congress, 2d Session, p. 1806.

[468] _Ibid._, pp. 2501-2506.

[469] _Ibid._, p. 1807.

[470] Seth Webb to Seward, Sec. of State, December 12, 1861.

[471] La Republique d'Haiti et les Etats-Unis de l'Amerique, desirant
rendre durables et solides l'amitie et la bonne entente, qui regnent
heureusement entre les deux nations liberales, ont resolu de fixer
d'une maniere claire, nette et positive les regles qui devront etre, a
l'avenir, religieusement suivies entre l'une et l'autre, au moyen d'un
traite d'amitie, de commerce et de navigation, ainsi que d'extradition
de criminels fugitifs.--Leger, "Recueil des Traites," etc., p. 84.

[472] "Treaties and Conventions concluded between the Republic of
Liberia and Foreign Powers, 1848-1892."

[473] Grimke, "Chas. Sumner," p. 343.

[474] Chas. Sumner's Works, Vol. XIV, pp. 306-309, XV, pp. 270-272.
Memoirs and Letters of Chas. Sumner, E. L. Pierce, pp. 68-69.

[475] _The African Repository_, August, 1862, p. 255. This was passed
after thanking the Liberian Commissioners, who had addressed them.

[476] Resolution of the Senate: _Resolved_, that the independence of
Texas ought to be acknowledged by the United States whenever