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

Inhabitants of Strasbourg

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Strasbourg, May 9, 1865.

Abraham Lincoln’s life was a long homage paid by that honest man to the rights and liberties of the people who elected him. His death is a public calamity, deplored by all those who believe in the providential mission of the republic of the United States. But they are comforted in remembering that no private misfortune, however great it may be, can prevail against a cause founded on justice, or against institutions based upon liberty.

The inhabitants of Strasbourg, signing this address, have the honor of asking you to accept the expression of their sentiments of profound condolence for the death of Abraham Lincoln.

• A. SCHMIDT, Prof of Theology.
• CH. GEROLDE.
• A. SCHALLER, Minister.
• BOUVARD, Proprietor.
• V. GEISTOD.
• C.F.SCHMIDT.
  And many others.

Mr. Bigelow, United States Minister in Paris.