The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-05-11
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The steamship China, from New York, ar
| rived out on the 10Th.
Latest by Telegraph to Queenstown.
An address of coincidence to the American
! people passed the lower houses of the Austrian
| Reichrath unanimously.
The Austrian and Swiss governments have
| forwarded addresses to America.
The Protestant Church of Paris performed
a funeral service on. the 10Th.
Napoleon has left Paris for Algiers.
The Paris Bcurse was heavy on the Doth.
Rentes closing at eff 15c.
A vote OF censure on the Spanish Cabinet
for the late military conflicts in Madeira, W as
lost BY a large majority.
Italy and the Pope had concluded arrange
ments on the Episcopal question. The Bish-
ops are to return. The Pope will Immediately
ill the vacant seats.
The Brazilian mails had reached Lisbon.
no JGneiso, april 9.-The Montevidean
banks had been authorized to resume cash
payments. t ~
A large force of Paraguayans threaten to in
wade the Argentine Republic in order to at
tack Brazil and Buenos Ayres.
| London, april 30.-On Saturday evening,
| April 10Th, an immense public meeting was
convened under the auspices of the Emancipa-
ton Society, and held in st. James Hall, to
express their feelings Of grief and horror at the
I assassination OF President Lincoln and sympa-
| thy with the government and people of the
| United States, and Mrs. Lincoln and Mr.. Sew
ard and family. The galleries of the hall were
| draped in black, and over the end of the gal
lery was hung the American flag. The hall
was crowded with an audience who manifest
ed not merely warm admiration of the char
acter and capacity of the late President, and
sincere sympathy with the people of the Unit
ed States in the loss.they have sustained, but
heartily approved of the great cause Mr.. Lin
| coin represented.
The platform contained an array of ParIia-
mentary gentlemen, and many of the leading
citizens OF the metropolis. Many ladies were
present, the majority of whom were In mourn
ing. Various resolutions were carried, not
merely with unanimity, but with an intense
feeling rarely seen at public meetings. The
| chair was occupied by VIM. Evans President
OF the Emancipation Society. Messrs Forster,
Stanfeld. Leathem, Taylor, Patten, Baxter,
| and Baines, members of Parliament, COM
menced the proceedings with expressions OF
deep sympathy with the American govern
ment and people, and entire confidence in
President johnson and his administration.
The chairman was supported by twenty infu-
entail members of Parliament and a large
array of persons representing every section Of
the community.
Letters of sympathy were received from
Sir Charles Lyell, Lord Houlton and others.
W. e. Forster, M. p, moved the first resolu-
ton, as follows:
"This meeting desires to give utteaance to
the feeling of griefand horror with which it
has heard of the assassination of Mr.. Lincoln,
the murderous attack on Mr.. Seward, and to
convey to Mrs. Lincoln and the United States
government and people the expression of its
profound sympathy and heartfelt coincidence
Mr.. Forster said this was a time when
the tie of blood binding Englishmen to
Americans was indeed truly felt. The thrill
of grief, horror and indignation which passed
through the length and breadth of Europe es
pecially pressed the heart of every English
man as though some painful calamity had
fallen on himself. (Cheers.) This meeting
would not alone send by the ship which left
their shores that night its sympathy with Wild
ows and orphans and country, and assurances
that they had not lost faith in the future of
America, but were confident that they had SO
learnt the lesson of common history that they
would have what strength free and Christian
people have to bear up against every blow like
this, though it be such blow as had rarely
ever fallen upon any Commonwealth. He ex-
pressed his conviction that President johnson
would continue Mr.. Lincoln's wo of restor-
ing peace to the country and insuring freedom
to all who dwell in it. (Great cheering
P. A. Taylor, M. p, seconded the resolution,
and expressed deep sympathy with the Ameri-
can nation who had lost worthy successor of
Washington. Mr.. Lincoln's great task had
been fulfilled. He had crushed the slavehold-
ers' rebellion. Time, the destroyer, had
not withered one leaf in his chaplet of glory.
He had no fear Of the government Of the
United States falling into a career of revenge
full tribulation. He asked the audience to re-
member that for years portions of the press and
people had heaped every epithet OF abuse on
Mr.. Lincoln, and they were now trying to do
the same thing by Mr.. Johnson. (Cries of
! shame.) He felt confident that the efforts Of
the new government would be continued In
the same direction as Mr.. Lincoln's, and that
they would soon effect a complete restoration
of the Union, with the complete emancipation
Of the negro. Mr.. Lincoln had died for that
principle, but his death is not the symbol OF
its defeat but of its glorious triumph. (Cheers.)
Mr.. Leathem, M. p, a brother-in-law OF Mr..
Bright, concurred in the hearty tributes paid
to the character and services of Mr.. Lincoln.
They had seen America pass triumphantly
through gigantic peris, and they confidently
expressed the hope that she would come out
with equal fortitude and equal dignity from
what was perhaps the last and greatest Of her
triumphs.
Mr.. Stanfeld, M. p, moved the next resolu-
ton, which was as follows:
"This meeting desires also to express its en-
tire confidence iu the determination and pow
er of the Government and people of the United
States to carry out to the full the policy of
which Abraham Lincoln's Presidential career
was the embodiment, and establish free insti-
tutions throughout the whole American re-
public"
He said they had met not merely to express
horror at deed so foul that history could
produce no parallel, but show sympathy for
the cause which begins by being honorable
and great to be righteous; and which, by the
acts and by the life and death of the martyr
| President, had now become sscred in his
eyes. loud cheers The South had been
fighting for the sole, avowed, deliberate pur-
pose of promoting and perpetuating human
slavery. 1t attempted to found its substance
upon national crime, and met the deserved
fate of those who set themselves against the
laws of God and man.
The North had been fighting for common
country, which they would share, but which
they would not allow to be torn asunder.
Step by step the North rose to the height of
the great and holy argument on which their
cause was founded. Each delay, each defeat,
seemed but to make their resolve frmer and
higher and purer, their policy. And when
they finally abolished slavery throughout the
Southern States, their victory was permitted
to crown their cause. Throughout all this
period, Mr.. Lincoln grded his country with
honor. If any thing could strengthen the
United States In their trial, 1t would be the
deep felt, spontaneous and universal burst of
sympathy which was now travelling to them
from Europe. He was sure all prayed that
that Government and people might be true to
the example of him who was the guider of
their cause.
F. b. Potter, M. p, seconded the motion.
he said he now stood in Parliament as the
successor of Robert Golden, whose object it
was, equally with that of Mr.. Lincoln, to digni-
[ fy labor. Mr.. Lincoln deatroyed slavery in
T America. 1t should be their wish to destroy
serfdom at home; and he trusted the result OF
the conflict in America would be to give an
| impetus TO the cause OF reform in Europe.
Mr.. Baxter, M. P, supported the motion,
and he expressed hearty concurrence with the
eloquent tributes paid to the memory of Mr.
| Lincoln. All the events of the last four wears