J. H. Vries to Andrew Johnson

J. H. Vries to Andrew Johnson

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

J. H. Vries

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), 97.

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), 125.

[Translation.]

Paris, June 7, 1865.

Most Illustrious Excellency: I have the honor of sending you a copy of my letter to Mrs. Lincoln and the illustrious nation whose destinies are intrusted to your hands. You will see in it the faithful expression of my sentiments for the great statesman Abraham Lincoln. You will find, at the same time, an antidote to the plague which threatens America by the crime of Dr. Blackburn.

I do not doubt but the papers will make known this remedy by publication, and thus snatch from certain death thousands of victims, if the dreadful plague should break out.

May God give you the light to lead the great nation of the United States to its highest destiny, is my most cordial wish for you, whom Providence has called to the eminent post of President.

Deign to accept the humble homage of the distinguished sentiments with which I have the honor to be your excellency’s very humble and most obedient servant,

J. H. VRIES.

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