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46,149 lettersSeptentrion Masonic Lodge Ghent, May 20, 1865. Mr. Minister: The Septentrion Masonic Lodge of Ghent could not remain indifferent in presence of the crime which has spread consternation through the…
Mr. Sanford to Mr. Seward. Legation of the United States, Brussels, April 30, 1865. No. 261.] Sir: His royal highness the Count de Flanders, sent to me yesterday one of…
Mr. Sanford to Mr. Seward. Legation of the United States, Brussels, April 28, 1865. No. 257.] Sir: The tragic tidings from Washington of the assassination of the President and murderous…
Note from the Moniteur of the 30th April 1865. April 30, 1865 The king ordered one of his aides-de-camp to go to Mr. Sanford’s and express to him the sorrow…
House of Representatives undated MOTION IN ORDER. Mr. Le Hardy de Beaulieu. Gentlemen, you were all horrified three days ago on hearing of the assassination of the President of the…
Mr. Berghmans to Mr. Hunter Legation of Belgium to the United States, Washington, April 16, 1865. Mr. Secretary: It is with real grief that I have the honor of acknowledging…
Mr. Rogier to Mr. Sandford Brussels, April 29, 1865. My Dear Minister: While I transmit to Washington the expression of the sentiments of the government of the king, on account…
American Residents of Buenos Ayres Buenos Aires, May 31, 1865 Resolutions adopted at a meeting of American citizens resident in Buenos Ayres, held May 31, 1865. Whereas the sad tidings…
Mr. Tomas Guido to Mr. Kirk. Buenos Ayres, May 30, 1865. Dear Sir: I do not fear to renew your sorrow by uniting mine to the unutterable grief that the…
Spanish Democratic Committee of Buenos Ayres. Buenos Ayres, June 4, 1865. The Spanish democratic committee in this city would fail in one of its most sacred duties did it not…
Mr. Kirk to Mr. Seward. Legation of the United States, Buenos Ayres, May 30, 1865. No. 115.] Sir: The awful report of the assassination of President Lincoln and the attempted…
Governor of the Province Buenos Ayres, May 28, 1865. Sir: The assassination of the illustrious republican, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, has caused in Buenos Ayres the most…
Congress of the Argentine Republic Buenos Aires, June 2, 1865 The senate and chamber of deputies of the Argentine nation, in general assembly convened, resolve: Article 1. The senators and…
President of the Congress Legislative Congress of the Argentine Nation, Buenos Ayres, June 3, 1865. Marcos Paz, president of the congress of the Argentine nation, to the president of the…
Department of the Interior Department of the Interior, Buenos Ayres, May 27, 1865. Resolved, The illustrious President of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln, having been assassinated just as…
Señor Rufino de Elizalde to Mr. Kirk Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Buenos Ayres, May 27, 1865. Sir: I have the honor to enclose your excellency a copy of the resolutions…
Members of Associations of Commerce and Industry Bielitz, Austria, April 29, 1865. Mr. President: We, the undersigned, members of associations of the several branches of commerce and industry in the…
Baron Wydenbruck to Mr. Hunter Imperial Legation of Austria, Washington, April 18, 1865. Mr. Secretary: I can scarcely find words to express my consternation at the news of the tragic…
Count Mensdorff to Baron Wydenbruck Vienna, May 18, 1865. Baron: I have received the despatches you have done me the honor to address to me up to the 2d instant.…
Baron Wydenbruck to Mr. Seward New York, June 14, 1865. Sir: I have received by the European mail of yesterday a despatch from my government, dated 18th May, which charges…