Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part IV, Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865; the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late president of the United States of America, and the attempted assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, on the evening of the 14th of April, 1865; expressions of condolence and sympathy inspired by these events

Letter addressed to the editor of Temps.

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[Translation.]

Mr. Editor: The indescribable act which has just torn from us F** Abraham Lincoln, member of the Grand Lodge of New York and President of the republic of the United States of America, has profoundly afflicted all Frenchmen.

Thus the members of the Lodge Saint Pierre des Acacias, at their sitting on Thursday, the 27th of April last, testified the profound grief they felt by a peculiar demonstration (en tirant une triple batterie de denil) in memory of that noble victim. Every one thought that the blood of Lincoln would be the consecration of the principles of liberalism, so courageously and so nobly explained and upheld by that great citizen.

The members of the lodge Saint Pierre des Acacias will wear mourning for three months for the death of their brother, Abraham Lincoln.

Have the goodness to accept, &c.,

• J. HAART, Ven.** d’Honneur.
• HIMET, Ven. ** Titulaire.
• LOUIS REDEN, Orateur.
• RICHARD, 1st Surveillant.
• PAULOMIER, 2d Surveillant.
• E. BRAS, Secretaire.