New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-13
Address OF the French Republican Social
isi Club Of london.

isl Club Of London.
To the A,acrican People:
The atrocious crime perpe,rated upon The two
chiefs of your Republic have struck both hcmi-
spheres with astonis lment and horror.
Europe like America, has had only one voice IN
its indignation and rebukc toward that cowardly
assassination, and for the first time in history the
people and the poten,ates have been unanimous in
their roprobation.
That the yanquished by the sword would seek
their revenge in the dagger; that the murlerers OF
the poor blacks should become the assassns of the
whites; that the Slaveholding Republic who has
executed John Brown should murder Lincoln;
that such an end should be the coronation Of such
an cdfce--all that is only one and the same thing
Chains. rope. kniE,-such are tho stars of that So
ciety SO far a, they are concerned. such acts are
in the ogics; it is a cause Of stupcfaction not Of
wonder.
But something disturbs profoundly the reason
and the conscience of humanity; it is to see those
advoc9tes of tho enslavement of men and of the
right Of property in human flesh, those cruel slave
holders, killing the hbertors in the very name of
liberty, and calling them tyrants! Is il not alto
gother absurd and atrocious that the negro-trader
should take the part of Bruus, and the abotionist
become C@sarl Is it not the zenith Of madness
and fury, the nadir of moral and mental darkness
The slaves loose one-half of their soul says Homer
the masters loose it in full. ny the possession Of
men they forget eycrythins-tho sense of morality
as well as of wisdom.
BY this perturbation of the natural laws Che
world for them is thrown down. Tlsy mistake
everything. and they make universal confusion
of good and wrong false and true, affirmative and
negative crime, virtue, executioncrs, victims,
tyranny, liberty
But it is not a reason for us 10 rcpudia'e the
right OF killing tyrant
OF course every one has a right and oven duty
20 accomplish against the oppression OF 'hc Others.
When the public justice idls, nothing but the pri
vate one is left When the general night is VIC.
cntly tramplcd and scAcod it returns 20 iIs sourc-
the individual.
such is our faith. But the magistrates OK 70
public, the representatives Of free people. are no
tyranls at ALL On the contrary they are, princi-
Jally in this holy war against Slavery, IN this
crusade not only for the redemption o. tomb, but
for the salvation of the living limbs OF Christ they
are. We say. the magistrates Of the laws the repre-
sentatiyes Of Justice and liberty.
Therefore, your mourning is aun'versal"nc. The
people as well as the royal courts, are wearing the
American Grape. Although republicans, We pro-
test with tho kings and empcrorS asains.
that assassination. We are coming toward yon,
mixing our popular regrets 10 the hypocritoai tears
Of the sharks, to the selfish feelings Of all those
potentatcs, not long ago me tric@os Of the South
murderers of three republicsand the royal masters
of enslaved France, Rome and Mexico. If those
very tvrants have not paid the assassin they would
certainly have been glad 10 take the benefit OF The
deed and if to day they protos. against the murder,
il is becau il is useless for them, and because they
are frightened.
Yes. we sincerely protest IN orr triple capacity
as workingmcn, as Republicans and az frenchmen.
As worsingmen, white slaves, VIC are in solid
arity with the blacks. We have the same destiny
labor; the same foc-the MASTER the same inend,
the pioneer OF liberty-Abraham Mnco!n. 1T was
necessary for the Abolition President 70 DO apoOr
workngman himself.
AS Republicans, We are the foow-citizens OF your
pcppblic which preserves in tho New World the
Republican institutions as 4 trust and an example
for the OiO pE'
As Frcnchincn, VIC are the brothers Of tho Ameri-
can people, Of whom our fathers havo been the
co1-fathers IN the fonts Of liberty.
When Washington permitted that IN the Constl-
tuition. hiswork, Slavery should be admitted side
by side with the bill OF nights, he did not forSee
then THAI il was the fatal germ OF dissention; the
seed of civil war without parallel in history. Ho
did not forsee what tearing Of the nation, what
bloody war should be engcud1rod by it, cuimiDa
ting at last in the assassination of his successor
But al that blood is not lost for the world. 1t was
. ransom Zach redemption requires 5omo martyrs.
Brown. Lincoln. Seward, have redeemed the orisi-
nal stain Of t,e Union. Often death ia salvation.
In this case il has been the last stroke to Slavery
T. il the accomplishment and tho conservation OF
libernton. Their immortal names are forever at
taebed 20 the triumph Of emancipation.
Citizens of the United States, like brave soldiers
they fell upon the battlefield; they will survive ID
,e roemory and the love Of tho human race, eter-
nal AZ the principle, radiant as The right with INC
double crown and the double palm Of heroes aRd
msrtv,,herocs of tho large fathcTland, martyrs OF
the universal rc!igion-LBEITy, EQUALITY, FRA
TERSITY
The conn,il,ee. FRiN PYAr. cHEsSEL. RACINE,
CHAnLFs NiKsLH, GUsfA'E doVhDA''
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