David A. Russell to Charles Francis Adams, May 1, 1865
Earl Russell to Mr. Adams. Foreign Office, May 1, 1865. Sir: I have had the honor to receive your note of this day’s date, officially communicating to me the melancholy…
Earl Russell to Mr. Adams. Foreign Office, May 1, 1865. Sir: I have had the honor to receive your note of this day’s date, officially communicating to me the melancholy…
[From the Temps, May 4, 1865.] May 4, 1865 Paris, May 1, 1865. To the Editor: The government and the great bodies of the state have solemnly testified the grief…
[From the Temps, May 2, 1865.] May 2, 1865 The succession of Lincoln has been settled without a moment’s uncertainty, by the application pure and simple of the Constitution, the…
[From the Temps, May 1, 1865.] May 1, 1865 After having registered the prompt and spontaneous manifestations which have taken place in the English, Italian, and Prussian parliaments, we at…
[From the Temps, April 28, 1865.] April 28, 1865 The fresh and grievous details which we receive of the lamentable tragedy at Washington leaves scarcely any room for the doubt…
[From the Temps, April 27, 1865.] April 27, 1865 P. S.—Frightful news reaches us at the moment of going to press. President Lincoln has been assassinated; and an attempt has…
[From the Siècle, May 2, 1865.] May 2, 1865 We yesterday expressed our opinion that the legislative chambers had a great duty to perform; we are able to state to-day…
[From the Siècle, April 30, 1865.] April 30, 1865 I pause to pay a tribute of homage to the memory of that great and good man, Abraham Lincoln: he will…
From the Siècle undated a great democratic martyr. Slavery, before expiring, has summoned up what remained to it of power and rage, in order to strike from behind the man…
[From the Siècle, April 28, 1865.] April 28, 1865 The American republic had triumphed over the rebellion of the slave States; nothing more was required than to subdue the difficulties…