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

[From the Presse, May 1, 1865.]

May 1, 1865

Let us note, to the honor of our old Europe, that it has been grievously wounded by the blow that has fallen upon Lincoln. The Emperor has sent one of his aides-de-camp to Mr. Bigelow, requesting the minister to transmitto Washington the expression of his sympathy for the deceased President, and the horror he feels at the crime which has been committed. The English Parliament will to-morrow vote an address to the government and people of America. The Italian Parliament has already voted an address, proposed by M. Crispi, and the flag-staff which bore the Italian colors on the Carignan palace was draped with crape; at Brussels an immense meeting was held, to send across the Atlantic the sympathies of the Belgian people. Finally, at Berlin, the Chamber of Deputies had a solemn manifestation, and M. de Bismarck wrote a letter to the new President, expressive of the sentiments of the people and government of Prussia.

Thus, across the Atlantic, the Old and New Worlds extend the hand to each other over the coffin of Abraham Lincoln. Extreme views and the most divergent opinions meet around this tomb—it is because Lincoln was the personification of energy in the struggle, and wisdom in power; moderation in view of defeat, and conscience in the face of liberty.

GEORGES JAUBERT.