Friends of Perfect Union Lodge to Mary Lincoln

Friends of Perfect Union Lodge to Mary Lincoln

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Freemasonry

Friends of Perfect Union Lodge

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), 105.

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), 139.

[Translation.]

Madam: Some misfortunes are irreparable, and for which there is no consolation; these have fallen to your lot, and the world deplores it.

These are not then vain efforts of comfort we extend to you, but simply the humble tribute of the profound regrets that weigh down our hearts. If the pure and holy life of your great husband made him the favorite of a great nation, his death has rendered him immortal.

The liberator of slaves had to be a martyr! Was not the Nazarene crucified?

Lincoln is now surrounded by a halo of glory that ages can never efface; his name will be forever blessed.

Be resigned, madam, to the inscrutable decrees of Providence, who needed a great soul to accomplish its designs, and fixed upon the man most suited to its purpose.

We remain, madam, with the most profound respect, your very devoted servants.

The officers of the lodge:

BOURGUET,
the Venerable.

D. RAYNAL,
1st Warden.

A. ROLLAND,
2d Warden.

A. THERODEE,
Orator.

C. THOUBERT,
Secretary.

J. MERIE,
Keeper of the Seals.

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