Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-06-09
THE WORKING MEN OF EUROPE TO
PRFSIDENT JOHNSON

We have received from a London friend the
following Address to President johnson by the
international Council of the Working Men on
the assassination of President Lincoln, which
we presume has by this time reached its destin-
alton. As nothing could be more appropriate
to the solemn observance of this day, we append
the document, as follows: Et
To ANDREW JOHNSON, President Of the United
States.
SIR: The demon ofthe peculiar institution, ;"
for the supremacy of which the South rose in
arms, would not allow his worshipers to honor
ably succumb in the open field. What he had
begun in treason be must needs end in infamy
AS Philip lis inquisition breda Gerards, thus
Jefferson Daviss Pro-Slavery war Booth.
1t is not our part to Gull words of sorrow and
horror. while the heart Of two worlds heaves
with emotion. Even the sycophants who, year
after year, and day by day, stuck to their sisy-
phus work Of the morally assassinating ABRA.
HAM LINCOLN, and the great Republic he headed,
stand now aghast at the universal outburst of
popular feeling and vie with each other in strew-
ing rhetorical flowers on his open grave. They
have now at last found out that he was a man
neither to be brow beaten by adversely nor in
toxicated by success, inhexibly pressing on to
haste slowly maturing his steps; never retra-
cling them; carried away by no surge Of popular
fav0rs; disheartened by no slackeniDg ofthe pop
ular pulse; tempering stern acts by the CLEANS
of kind heart; Illuminating scene dark with
passion by the smile of humor; doing his Ti-
tanic work as humblY and bOmely as heaven
born rnlers do little things with the grandilO-
quenee of pomp and state-in one word. one of
the rare men who succeed in becoming great
without ceasiDg to be good. Such, indeed, was
the modesty of this great and good man that the
world only discovered him hero after he had
fallen a martyr.
To be singled out by the side of such chief,
the second victim to the internal gods of Sla-
very was an honor due to Mr.. SEWARD. Had
he not at the time of general hesitation, the sa-
gacity to foresee and the msnliness to foretell
athe irrepressible conflict" Did he not in the
darkest hours of that conflict, prove true to the
Roman duty to never despair of the republic and
its stars? We earnestly hope that he, and his
SOP, will be restored to health public activity,
and weiI-deserved bOnors within much less
than 'ninety days"
After tremendous civil war, but which, if
we consider its vast dimensions aud its broad
seope. and compare it to the Old Worlds $50
wears wars, and 30 years wars, and 29 years
wars. can hardly be said to have lasted 80 DAYS
Yours, sir, has become the task to uproot by the
law what has been felled by the sword-tO pre-
side over the ardous work of political reconstruc
lion and social regeneration. Aprofound sense
of your great mission will save you from any
compromise with stern duties. You will new
or forget that. initiate the new era of the EMAS-
cIPATIoN or LABOR, the American People de-
volved the responsibilities of leadership upon
t,oo men oflabor; the one ABRAHAM LINCOLN
the other ANDREW JOHNSON.
The CENTRAL COUNCIL OF THE INTERNATIoNAL
WoRKIxGMHE's ASSOCIATION, LoNDoS, MAY
~ 1865.