Juvenile Society of Progress of Naples to People of America

Juvenile Society of Progress of Naples to People of America

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Demonstrations

Juvenile Society of Progress at Naples

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

1865-04-30

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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), 456.

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), 598-99.

[Translation]

Naples 30 April 1865

The Juvenile Society of Progress at Naples

To the People of America on the occasion of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln:

Accept a word of condolence and also of encouragement which the Society of Progress of Naples send you. We also like you have felt misfortune, We also know what it is to suffer, so we can feel for others, but the road of civilization & progress is made in that way, and it is nesessary to traverse it, though the footsteps of the nation are bathed in blood. Misfortunes are seed which carry fruits that are never lost, For you great deeds we paid you a tribute of praise, now for your misfortunes we offer you a word of sympathy, of encouragement, and of condolence.

Carlo Rebecchi,
Pres.
Pasquale Gallachio
Fidele Albaneje
Baldasar Cibo
Salvatore Menechillo
Vincenzo Padavani
Franceso Grancassa
Barabe Antonio
Luigi Menichino
Giobanni Lavastano
Vincenzo Labanca
Marano Ramajo
Granuelo Polaje

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