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

[Translation from the Jornal da Lisboa]

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A deputation from the “Association for Promoting the Improvement of the Laboring Classes,” delivered to-day, about 11 o’clock, into the hands of the minister of the United States an address of condolence voted at a meeting of the members, on the death of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, late President of that republic.

The minister received the deputation with every mark of consideration, declaring that he would immediately transmit the autograph message to his government, and he thanked the association for this proof of good feeling and fraternity between the people of the two nations.