Address of the Common Council of Naples

Address of the Common Council of Naples

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Municipal government

Common Council of Naples

Record Group 59: General Records of the Department of State, 1763-2002, Entry 177: Foreign Messages on the Death of Abraham Lincoln, 1865, National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States of America, and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866), 457.

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States of America, and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867), 599-600.

[Translation.]

Naples, May 5, 1865.

Illustrious Sir: The common council, which has met this morning in an extraordinary sitting, has unanimously voted the following address, which you, illustrious sir, will have the kindness to transmit to your government:

“The municipality of Naples, full of horror for the execrable crime which has deprived the great American nation of its magnanimous President, Abraham Lincoln, express to his successor, who represents that generous people, the profound grief which struck us on the news of that great calamity, and wish that the noble cause to which Lincoln’s life was consecrated, and for which it was lost, will soon obtain the full triumph, which will be the greatest conquest of modern civilization.”

Accept, illustrious sir, the testimonies of my esteem.

F. DE SUROVA,
Mayor.

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