Address of Italian Electoral Association

Address of Italian Electoral Association

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

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Italian Electoral Association

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

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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.

[Translation.]

Naples, May 2, 1865.

Italian Electoral Association—General Garibaldi, honorary president.

With an ardent heart we join in the universal grief occasioned by the death of Abraham Lincoln. This event has moved the world more than it has ever done before, or will ever do at the death of a pope or reigning emperor, by the will of God, because the man whose loss we deplore was not raised in virtue of chimerical rights, but by the free vote of the people.

And we, in expressing to you these sentiments in the name of the Italian Electoral Association, for whom the national sovereignty is a sacred cause, and whose first duty is to preserve the popular rights, we think we interpret correctly the sentiment of the country which fosters Garibaldi for the one that fostered Washington.

S. RICCIARDE,
President.

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