oppose the sword and calumny to arrest the people in their course to happiness and independence. The goal will be gained, and the day will soon dawn when the barriers of tyranny, prejudice, and ignorance shall be removed, and men shall call each other truly brothers. May liberty and independence endure forever! Long life to the republic of North America! In the name of the society: [SEAL.] GIOVANNI CERRINO, President. [Translation.] MUNICIPALITY OF FERMO. Resolution of the Municipal Council of Fermo, at the session of May 10, 1865. PROPOSITION. The mayor presiding, the Marquis Chevalier Joseph Ignatio Trevisani, read to the council a resolution of the municipality of Palermo, by which public homage is rendered to the glorious name of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States of America, barbarously murdered by the propagandists of slavery. After approving the action of said municipality, he proposed to the council the following order of the day: This council, struck with horror at the violent death of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States of America, considering that the abolition of slavery, in the triumph of which he was sacrificed, is a matter which interests humanity at large, and wishing, by a public demonstration, to do honor to that great name Resolved, 1. To give the name of ABRAHAM LINCOLN to the new street opened on the south side of this city. 2. To communicate to the United States consul general at Florence the present deliberation. All present, standing, applauded the motion of the mayor, which was adopted by acclamation. J. TREVISANI, Mayor. C. SILVESTRI, Senior Alderman. [Translation.] The Workingmen's Mutual Aid Society of Foggia to the people of the American Union. FOGGIA, May 8, 1865. BROTHERS OF AMERICA: We comprehend the sorrow that afflicts you in the triumphant hour of your humane cause. When ABRAHAM LINCOLN, your glorious helmsman of liberty, was struck down by the cruel hand of a vile assassin your generous souls were filled with mourning. The sad news reaches us in Italy like the messenger of a day fatal to the destinies of a people, and every true Italian heart was saddened by its coming. Even in the humble families of the working-men of Foggia the deepest grief was felt, and a shrill cry arose for the extermination of the vampires of humanity. Brothers, be consoled by the thought that ABRAHAM LINCOLN, in the greatest trials, showed himself something more than the President of a transatlantic republic, and that the assassin's pistol was only the instrument of the dealers in human flesh. LINCOLN's tomb with you, and Garibaldi's misfortunes with us, will be known in history as the irrevocable decrees of reason against barbarism and tyranny; but you will let future ages know the good intentions of the two illustrious victims. Be brave, then, brothers of America, in your desolation, and defend the sepulchre where the secret of the emancipation of all the slaves in the world lies buried. FERDINAND CIPRO, President. [Translation.] DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN ASSOCIATION OF FLORENCE. SIR: As soon as it became known that the southern rebels had been defeated by the federal armies, the Societa Democratica Republicana of Florence commissioned the undersigned to present to you a congratulatory address, and to assist in a public demonstration of satisfaction, which the liberals of Florence had decided to give to you, as the representative of the republic of the United States, when unexpectedly the intelligence of the murder of Mr. LINCOLN changed their hymn into elegy, their joy into sorrow. The society which sends us to you as interpreters of its sorrow is composed of men who, loving and hoping, followed the various fortunes of the mighty war that your people have sustained, not for their own liberty, but for that of others; not for an idea, or an interest circumscribed by the boundaries of a nation, but for the great principles of morality and justice. If upon the death of Mr. LINCOLN your people for a moment trembled before the dangers that seemed to threaten your republic, they soon reassured themselves, knowing that he but reflected the character, will, and soul of his countrymen. Mr. LINCOLN has been assassinated, but the nation is immortal. It will acquire new strength and vigor from this great misfortune, and will know how to crown the work which was brought almost to an end by its chief, because the ancient race and virtues of the Puritan pilgrims, who first landed in New Eng- A people in whom energy is nature, liberty an instinct, equality a belief, Sir, the democracy of Europe owe to your people an eternal debt of gratitude for preserving, intact and pure, their great republic, from the model of which the nations of the old world may yet be formed anew. Receive, sir, the assurances of our profound respect, A. DE GUBERNATI, G. DOLFI, A. MARIO, B. ODICINI, Delegates of the Democratic Republican Association. The CONSUL GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, Florence. [Translation.] Democratic Association of Florence to the free people of the United States of MAY 8, 1865. BROTHERS OF THE AMERICAN UNION: A few days have passed since your LINCOLN, the honest, the magnanimous citizen, the most worthy Chief more. The furies of despotism and of servitude, deceived in their infamous hopes, incapable of sustaining any longer their combat against liberty, before falling into the abyss which threatened them, strengthened the arm of a murderer, and as they opened the fratricidal war with the gibbet of the martyr of the cause of abolition, John Brown, so they ended it, worthy of themselves, in the most ferocious and stupid of all crimes, the murder of a great citizen. Now liberty, in stigmatizing the cause of her enemies, will have only to show to the world this gibbet and this murderer, and the people looking upon them cannot do otherwise than recollect that despots have had a share in this; t that in some courts of Europe Mason, Slidell, and the ferocious pirates of the Alabama found protection, encouragement, and applause, and finally the wicked instigator of the civil war, Jefferson Davis, obtained consolation, praises, and hopes even in the paternal benediction of the Pope. Brothers of the American Union, courage! The great cause for which you have supported four years of Titanic combat is the cause of humanity; its triumph can never more be doubted, and has been delayed only for a moment by the worst of actions committed by an abject murderer. Tyranny, it is true, could sometimes be destroyed by the murder of the tyrant, because it has life only in him; but liberty, which lives in the people, has, like the people, an immortal origin and destiny. Demócratic Association of Florence, May 8, 1865. For the committee: P. D. ANNIBALE. A. CORTI, Secretary. [Translation.] FLORENCE, May 4, 1865. SIR: The masonic lodge Il Progresso Sociale, of the ancient accepted Scottish rite established in Florence, at their meeting of the 3d instant, after rendering funeral honor to the great martyr of liberty, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, and adopting mourning for three weeks, have resolved to make known their profound sorrow to the noble nation which you represent in Italy, at the same time expressing the confident hope that, notwithstanding the loss of their President, the nation and its institutions will continue as enduring as the great principles for which they are contending. Hon. Col. T. B. LAWRENCE, B. ODICINI, Master. F. PULSZKY, Senior Warden. C. BETTINI, Junior Warden. A. MARTINATI, Orator. M. LE SAIRO, Secretary. United States Consul General for Italy. [Translation.] Fraternity of artisans of Italy to the people of the United States. FLORENCE, April 27, 1865. CITIZENS: When the telegram brought the intelligence that the cause of civilization and justice had obtained a glorious victory, (fit reward for your indomitable constancy and heroic valor,) this brotherhood of artisans was about to testify in a public and solemn manner the fraternal love which unites to you, free citizens, every heart which beats for and desires the complete triumph of the rights of humanity. But, alas! the hand of an infamous assassin (the agent, doubtless, of a mysterious and iniquitous plot prepared against the national liberty) has taken away the precious life of your Chief Magistrate and placed in great danger another one not inferior to it. This barbarous and execrable deed has filled with deep sorrow the souls of our fraternity, and having in consequence cast aside the thoughts of any joyful demonstration, the committee, as interpreter of the sentiments of their association, has resolved to drape with mourning the flag of the society for fifteen days, to express to you their indignation for the terrible murder committed, and to address to you a word of fraternal sympathy. Free citizens! may the name of ABRAHAM LINCOLN be to you a watchword whereby you may better accomplish the sublime mission which you have begun, and through the sacrament of his blood may all tyrannies, be destroyed. Long life to the American republic! Long life to the federal Union! GIUSEPPE DOLFI, President. FRANCESCO PECINI, Secretary. [Translation.] Constitutional Rights Association to the President of the United States. FLORENCE, May 9, 1865. SIR: At the very moment when all the friends of liberty and civilization on this side the ocean were rejoicing over the approaching close of a contest sustained by you for the great humanitarian principle of the abolition of slavery, sad news arrived to alloy our joy, and we learned with horror of the assassination of the man elected by the American nation as its chief. Thus the martyrdom of him who promulgated the solemn decree of emancipation (true sign of equality among men) consecrated the second great epoch of your history, not less glorious than that of your independence itself. America, discovered by our sailors, illustrated by our historians, celebrated by our poets, is for Italy more than a friend—she is a sister, towards whom she looks anxiously during the revolution through which she is passing in her reconstruction. We Italians, associated to maintain and keep alive the sacred fire of liberty, send a word of affection and condolence, trusting that the federal flag, which was kept aloft by the iron strength of President LINCOLN, and which is now drooping over the tomb, too soon, alas! opened for Honest Old ABE, may not again be attacked by internal enemies or rebellious citizens. PROF. EMILIO CIPRIANI, President. |
