We consider it our duty to add our signatures, with those of our fellowcitizens, to the two proposed addresses-one of congratulation for the victorious cause of the republic, the other of condolence on the occasion of the death of its worthy President, LINCOLN. As the news reached us late, on account of our great distance, we sent a telegram ordering our signatures to be affixed in time. I enclose the original of the despatch and signatures, which you will please annex to the national address. Accept the expression of our perfect consideration. [Translation.] HANS HERZAL. BUCHAREST, May 10, 1865. We Swiss, residing in Bucharest, cordially approve of the two addresses contained in Nos. 115 and 116 of the Bund, and request the editors to annex our signatures to them. SIR: The receipt of a telegram from London, on Friday last, announcing the assassination of President LINCOLN, and an attack on your own life, produced a great excitement in this country. A universal sentiment of indignation and of horror for such a crime against such a man as our late President, at the moment when the shouts of our victorious armies proclaimed that he had saved the country, and had won the respect and admiration of the world by the successful issue of the struggle he had directed against that foe alike of humanity and American liberty and union-southern slavery-was expressed by all the various nationalities of this capital. The half-masted flag on the legation had hardly been raised before my colleagues of the diplomatic corps called to express their sympathies for our national loss. The society of Italian Workingmen delivered me an address of condolence, and the subjects of the Hellenic government, in large numbers, yesterday repaired to my residence to express their grief for such a calamity. Several of their number addressed the crowd in their native Greek, and in reply to a formal discourse from the chairman of the committee, I delivered to the assembled people an address. In recognition of such a friendly act, I caused the Greek flag to be raised above the half-masted American flag. The spectacle of these two flags, of the two most intensely liberty-loving people in the world, floating together in kindred sympathy on the same staff, created a deep sensation among the passing crowds. It gives me a melancholy pleasure to refer to these incidents as showing how wide-spread was the fame achieved by President LINCOLN, and how earnest was the admiration felt for the services he had rendered to his race and to his country even in this remote corner of Europe. I cannot be mistaken, for I see and feel it all around me, in predicting that this assassination, be the motive what it may, will produce important political consequences throughout Europe, and will arouse and stimulate the friends of liberty to new efforts against despotism and arbitrary power. The assassin's hand has consecrated the life and death of President LINCOLN. He fell a victim to his devotion to the cause of liberty and human rights, and he will take his place in history among the martyrs whom universal humanity honors as its benefactor. * * * * I cannot conclude this despatch without expressing my fervent prayer that the life of Secretary Seward may be spared, and that, by the favor of Almighty God, he may recover from the wounds under which he is suffering. Never were his services to his country more evident than now, and never was there such a general concurrence in the opinion, both among strangers and Americans, of the immense importance of your excellency's life to the dearest interests of the American people. I have the honor to be, with great respect, your obedient servant, Hon. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. No. 112.] Mr. Morris to Mr. Hunter. LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Constantinople, May 3, 1865. SIR: I have the honor to transmit enclosed copies of a correspondence between his highness Aali Pacha and myself, relative to the late melancholy events at Washington. Since the answer was written to the letter from the Porte, we have received the sad news of the death of Mr. Seward. This intelligence has caused a most painful impression through all circles, and particularly those of the government and the diplomatic corps. He had won the admiration and esteem of all who are conversant with our politics by his eminent ability as a diplomatic writer, and by the rare skill and judgment with which he directed our foreign policy in the most critical periods of American history. His name and fame will be inseparably associated with the great events in which he was so conspicuous an actor. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. WILLIAM HUNTER, Acting Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. SIR: * * Mr. Morris to Mr. Seward. [Extract.] LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, * * Constantinople, May 4, 1865. * Since the writing of my despatch of yesterday's date, we have been overjoyed to learn that the rumor of your death is not true, and that you are recovering from the dreadful wounds inflicted on you by the assassin. We humbly invoke an all-merciful God to restore you to health for the sake of the best interests of our beloved country. However variant may be the opinions of people in Europe as to the American war, they are accordant in the recognition of the consummate ability and sagacity with which you have directed our foreign policy. The preservation of your life is regarded as an event in which the world at large has a common interest with your fellow-countrymen. May Heaven prolong your useful life for new services to the American people! * * * I have the honor to be, with great respect, your obedient servant, Hon. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C E. JOY MORRIS. * No. 114.] Mr. Morris to Mr. Hunter. [Extract.] LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SIR: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of despatch No. 87, and the circular containing the official announcement of the assassination of President LINCOLN. In a previous despatch I referred at large to the universal feeling of horror and indignation which such a monstrous crime had produced. among all classes of the population of this capital; no human event, it seems to me, could inspire a deeper and more widespread sense of sorrow and abhorrence than such a crime against such a man. President LINCOLN's course of action, during his four years' term of office, had been so honorable to himself and so useful to his country, that he had won even the respect of the enemies of the noble cause he championed. He lived long enough to refute the calumnies of his foreign assailants, and to confound the wicked schemes of domestic traitors. His steady perseverance in the course of right, his unshaken faith in ultimate success, and the stern loyalty he exhibited to the Constitution, astonished the European world and enforced its admiration of one of the grandest exhibitions of moral courage and of the conscientious discharge of duty to be found in ancient or modern history. He has descended to the tomb with an untarnished fame, and honored alike by the kings and people. of Europe, and the citizens of republican America. Since my last despatch a deputation has called on me, on the part of the American church and nationality, to express their condolence, and their hopes that slavery, the cause of all our woes, will be forever eradicated in the United States. This delegation consisted of three of the highest ecclesiastical dignitaries of the American church. * * * * I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, Hon. WILLIAM HUNTER, Acting Secretary of State. [Translation.] Letter to the United States minister at Constantinople from members of a German masonic lodge in that city. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 7, 1865. The undersigned, members of the German masonic lodge entitled the Germania of the Golden Horn in this city, have the honor to express their } sincere condolence with the people of the United States of America for the death of their President, ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Your compatriots are not alone in deploring that great misfortune; their grief is felt and shared by the entire universe, by all true friends of humanity, and especially by members of the masonic order, as they have lost a brother in the person of the illustrious deceased, and they have seen but few like him since the foundation of their order. But we are comforted, with the friends of the republic, with the conviction that the crime committed by a villain, at the instigation of a band of fanatics, has not interrupted the even march of events. The enemies of the republic have given it a terrible blow, but its children have defended it bravely, and have shown that the free man never loses courage in the most serious events of life, and that liberty and order in a republic do not depend on the existence of a single man. The immense sacrifices and enormous losses suffered by the people of the United States have produced a good result; the republic has come out of the five years' struggle greater and more powerful than ever; its enemies tremble, and in their fright forget their former feelings. And events have produced a still more glorious sequel: slavery, that crime. against the dignity of human nature, is no more; its stain no longer dims the brilliancy of the star-spangled banner of the American Union, that will now wave more grand and glorious. ABRAHAM LINCOLN lived long enough to witness the success of his cause. The last moments of him whom we deplore were solaced by the triumph of liberty and humanity, of which he was a martyr. In asking you to accept this sincere expression of our sentiments, we send our best wishes for the prosperity of your great and beautiful country, hoping it may continue to be the asylum of liberty and the defence of the oppressed. Receive the assurances of our distinguished consideration. |
