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

Italian Industrial Society of Constantinople

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Italian Industrial Society of Constantinople,
April 29, 1865.

Sir: The tragical death of President Lincoln, lately snatched from the presipency of the great American republic, is a loss to be deplored by universal humanity.

Under this impression the Italian Industrial Society of Constantinople, of both the male and female sections, hasten to bear their tribute of grief for this deplorable event to your excellency.

We beg your excellency to accept this tribute of sorrow as a proof of that fraternity which at no distant day will unite in sympathy the people of both hemispheres, and we humbly request that you will do us the honor to transmit this letter to the government at Washington.

Accept, excellency, our most cordial salutations.

For the society:

GUISEPPE DE ANDREA,

Vice-President.

PIETRO TABBUCA,

Secretary.

Hon. E. Joy Morris,
United States Minister at Constantinople.