Citizens of Acireale to the People of the United States of America

Citizens of Acireale to the People of the United States of America

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Demonstrations

Citizens of Acireale

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

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

1865-05-10

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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), 434.

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), 570.

Acireale, May 10, 1865.

[Translation.]

To the people of the United States of America, from the citizens of Acireale, Sicily:

Your President, Abraham Lincoln, has fallen the victim of an assassin’s arm* may his blood weigh in the balance for the regeneration of your States. We a committee, desire to transmit to your proud and brave people a word that may avail to express the intense grief experienced here on the announcement of the death of so great a man. We assure you that throughout the nation, as if it were one individual, the human heart could not restrain its grief, and staggered beneath the weight of so great a calamity.

Abraham Lincoln was not yours only—he was also ours, because he was a brother whose great mind and fearless conscience guided a people to-union, and courageously uprooted slavery.

Brothers, the trial is not ended; the country calls for fresh martyrs—the last contest—and on the news of your victory we will rejoice with you, as we now grieve with you.

The committee;

PAOLO GRAEJA DIGA,
GIUSEPPE GRAZIE,
AVE MARIANE COSTANZO,
F. ROSSI MUSMEIZ,
DR. FRANCESCO LEOTTO,
DR. GIUSEPPE VIGO LEONARDI,
TYNAVIO BARBAGALTO,
GIUSEPPE COSTARELLI,
SALVATORE CASTARINA.

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