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

F. B.: Poem

IN TOKEN OF RESPECT.

[Translation from Latin verses.]

From humble parentage and low degree

Lincoln ascended to the highest rank;

None ever had a harder task than he.

It was perfected—him alone we thank.

Did the assassin think to kill a name,

Or hand his own down to posterity?

One will wear the laurel wreath of fame,

The other be condemned to infamy.

Cæsar was killed by Brutus,

Yet Rome did not cease to be;

Lincoln by Booth, and yet the

Slaves in all America are free!

F. B.

Rieti , May, 1865.