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The assassination of Abraham Lincoln has awakened a feeling of horror and indignation in every honest mind. The head of a generous and illustrious nation, which with noble perseverance he was laboring to restore to concord and power, his death marks a memorable epoch in the history of the United States, that in which the unfortunate African race was emancipated from the cruel hands of slave power. The death of a great man is certainly an immense misfortune; but Lincoln has left behind him in America a great people, who share his generous ideas and maintain the holy cause of humanity; and though deplorable blindness, low interests, or fanaticism, have feloniously removed the glorious head of the American republic, there remain men educated in his political ideas, a whole people trained under wise institutions, and the flag of the Union will be respected and feared from the Mexican Gulf to Canada, from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The Mutual Help Association of Sassari believes that it would fail in its duties to the solidarity of peoples if, in the sorrows of a brother people in America, it failed to protest against the abominable crime which has quenched a life spent in the service of the most sacred human interests, and to express its deep mourning for this calamitous event.
Sons of a nation which but recently vindicated its liberties and independence against foreign and domestic oppressors, and which suddenly lost a great man who, more than any other, contributed to our national enfranchisement, the Italians, above every other people, can appreciate and share the grief of the Americans.
Be pleased, Signor consul, to report these sentiments to your government, and be assured of the respect with which, in the name of the Mutual Help Association of Sassari, I have the honor to sign myself your most obedient servant,
S. SOLINAS,
President.
The United States Consul, Genoa.