The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-06
The TOrkIngmen of Europe TO Pref
uent johnson.


The New YORK Tribune of Thursday
says:
We have received from q London friend
the following address to President John.
ron by the International Council of the
Workingpen OF Europe on the assassins-
tien of President Lincoln, which we pre-.
sumo has by this time reached its destina-
lion. As nothing could be more appro-
pirate TO the solemn o~bserVances of this
day, we append the document, as follows
To Andrea Johnson President of the Uni,
ted States:
SIR: The demon of the "peculisr insLi
tuuon," for the supremacy OF which the
.outh rose to Srms, would not allow his
worsbippers to honorably suceLmb in. the
open field. Whist he had begun in treason
he must needs end in infamy. As Philip
Pills war for the inquisiLion bred u Gerard,
bus Jsfsrson Davis Pro-siavery wal a
Booth.
1t is not our part to Gull words of sorrow
and horror, while the heart of two worlds
heaves with emotion. Even the syco-
plants whOsyear after year, and day by day
stuck to to tneir Sisyphus w0,k OF morally
zsssssinating Abraham Lincoln and, the
great Republic he headed, stand now
aghsst ut the universal Outburst Of popular
feeling, and vie with each other in sIrew-
ing Lis rhetorical flowers on his open
grave. They have al last found out that
he was q man neither to be- bro w. beaten
BY adversely nor intoxicated by success, in
asxi6ly pressing on 10 his CREST goal; never
compromising is by blind haste; slowly
maturing his steps, never retrscIDg them /;
carried away by nOsurgeOf popular tsvors;
disheartened by no slAckening of the pop
uIsr pulse; tempering stern acts BY the
CLEANS of u kind heart; illuminating scenes
dark with passion by the smile Of numor
doing his IiEsntic work ss humbly and
hOmelyas heavenborn rulers do little things
with grandiloquence of pomp and stste-In
one word, one Of the rare men who succeed
IN becoming great without ceasing to be-
good. Such, indeed, Was the mo esty of
this great and good man that the world
only discovered him a hero after he had
tsllea Il martyr.
ITO b. singled out by the side of such a
chief the second victim to the Internal
gods of slavery was an honor due 10 MIR.
Seward Had be moi at q time of general
hesitation, the ssgs ity to foresee and the
mHnliuess to ~forelell "the irrepres.iole con-
hict2a Did he not in the darkest hours of
that conflict. prove true to the Roman duty
never to despaie of the Republic and its
stars 2 We earnestly hope that he and
MS son will be restored TO hsslth, public
activity, and well.deserved hOnOrs within
much less than "ninety days" stter
{ tremendous civil war, but which,
if We consider its vast dimensions and
It's broad scope, and compare it to the Old
Worlds $50 yesrs' wars, and 80 years
wars and % years wars, can hardly be
said to have lasted 80 days. Yours, sir,
has becJme the task TO uproot by the law
what has been felled byJRs sward-to pre-
side over the srduous work of political re-
construction and social regeneration. A
profound sense OF your great mission will
save you from any compromise with stern
duties. You will never forget that to mi
tiaye the new era of the Emancipation of
labor, the American people devolvsd the
responsibilities of leadership upon tlVo
men of labor the one, Abraham Lincoln.
the other, Andrew johnson no.
TIE CRSTRAL C0UECIL.oT TIE IEFERNA.
TIoNAL WoRKINGMENs ASSOCIATION,
LoNDoN, Msy ID 1865
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