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

Juvenile Society of Progress of Naples

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Naples, April 30, 1865.

The juvenile Society of Progress to the people of America on the occasion of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Accept a word of condolence, and also of encouragement, which the Society of Progress of Naples send you. We, also, like you, have felt misfortunes. We also know what it is to suffer, so we can fee for others; but the road of civilization and progress is made in that way, and it is necessary to traverse it, though the footsteps of the nation are bathed in blood. Misfortunes are seeds which carry fruits that are never lost. For your great deeds we paid you a tribute of praise; now for your misfortunes we ofer you a word of sympathy, of encouragement, and of condolence.

• CARLO REBEECHI, President.
• PASQUILE GALLUCHIO.
• FIDELI ALBANEJE.
• BALDASSARRE CIBO.
• SALVATORE MENECHILLO.
• VINCENZO PADAVANI.
• BARRABA ANTONIO.
• LUGI MENICHINO.
• GIOVANNI LATASTANO.
• VINCENZO LABANCA.
• MORANO ROMAJO.