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

Concord Lodge

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Concord Lodge, London,
May 22, 1865.

To the Citizen Andrew Johnson,
President of the Republic of the United States, thrice greeting:

Stricken by the ball of a serf of tyranny, Abraham Lincoln is dead—victim to his love for the cause of our brethren, the black laborers of the southern States.

Descendants of slaves, it is with feverish anxiety that we have followed the great movements of the drama of emancipation, for which the blood of the upholders of right has been shed.

Independent operatives, our bosoms have swelled with joy at the news of the downfall of oppression beneath the heroic efforts of the soldiers of emancipation.

Our brethren are free! Slavery is abolished! Such is the cry which, throughout the Old World, the down-trodden of our day repeated with joy, when the death of the great martyr came to add new brilliancy to the glorious halo which surrounds the sacred cause of right and of justice.

Mourning is in our hearts! our grief is great! We weep with you for the loss of the great citizen who represented the nation of freemen. Faithful to his memory, we shall tell our sons of the actions of this just man, who has passed from this life to the life immortal

• L. LUBAY, President of Concord Lodge.
• P. BORDAGE, Secretary.
• LARDON, Orator.
• L. PAIRIER, 1st Supervisor.
• L. RIDET, 2d Supervisor.
• LE ROUX, Treasurer.
• EMILE HATTORFF, Expert.
• AZERNA, Architect.