Abraham Lincoln,
President of the United States of America.
To His Excellency Senor Don Jose M. Acha
Constitutional President of the Republic of Bolivia.
Great and Good Friend: I have received the letter of your Excellency of the 16 August last informing me of your election by the popular suffrage to the Constitutional Presidency of the Republic at the expiration of the Provisional term of service which the national assembly had entrusted to you.
I felicitate Your Excellency on this renewed mark of the confidence of the people in your Excellency's administration, and I sincerely hope that under your continued direction of affairs the national prosperity may be greatly enlarged and the happiness of the people secured.
The sentiments of friendship expressed by your Excellency are cordially reciprocated. It is equally my desire and study to strengthen the friendly relations which have, happily, always subsisted between our respective countries. The Treaty just exchanged by our respective plenipotentiaries which I will immediately proclaim as the law of the land, will, I am confident, aid us both in giving effect to our good intentions.
I beg your Excellency to accept the expressions of my high regard and sincere friendship, and I pray God to have &c. Your Good Friend ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
By the President:
WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
Washington, 8 January, 1863.