The Miner and Workman's Advocate. — 1865-05-06 (London, England)

THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN.  MONSTER MEETING OF THE WORKING MEN OF LONDON.  On Thursday evening the working classes of London assembled in large numbers, at the great room at St. Martin's Hall, Long-acre, for the object of adopting an address of condolence to the people of America on the assassination of President Lincoln, and " to congratulate the working men of the United States on the triumph of negro emancipation and the success of the Federal cause, and to cultivate international and industrial arrangements with the great republic of America." The front of the galleries of the room was hung with black cloth, edged with white, and the American standard occupied the centre of the west gallery. The meeting was the most enthusiastic that has been held by the workmen of London for some years past. Amongst those on the platform were Mr. Potter, M.P. for Rochdale (in the chair), Mr. Mason Jones, Professor Be .sley, Mr. D. Chinery, Mr. E. Beales, Mr. F. T,Awrence, Serjeant Wheeler, Professor White, Mr. J. R. Taylor, &c. The Chairman said this was not altogether a time for mourning, but a time for action. We must not forget the programme laid down by the late Mr. Lincoln—Union and Emancipation. (Cheers.) Union, the symbol of the success of popular government in America, not merely to knock the fetters off the slave, but to give him the rights or citizenship. (Loud applause.) We, too, in England, held to the programme of union and emancipation—unanimity amongst all meu in England to obtain justice and emancipation from those remnants of feudalism, a privilege which still trammelled men in this country. (Hear, hear.) The working men of London felt the deepest sympathy with labour in America. The cause of the one was the Cause of the other; and at this meeting they extended the right hand of friendship to their fellow-men on the other side of the Atlantic, and wished this meeting to be the scene of everlasting friendship between the two peoples. (Long and continued cheering.) They did not forget their common origin and common language; and they looked forward to their common destiny to advance the principles of liberty and civilisation wherever the mother tongue was spoken. (Cheers.) Abraham Lincoln's life was gone, but his example was not lost. His name would be venerated in America and England, and would be associated with that of Richard Cobden as an incitement to future exertions in the same direction. (Hear, hear.) He (the chairman) would finish by a quotation from Shakespeare, which was as well deserved by Mr. Lincoln as it had been by othei s : "Be just and fear not. Let all the ends thou airn'st at Be thy country's, thy God's, and truth's; Then if thou fall'st, 0 Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr." (Loud cheers.) Mr. G. Potter paid a well-merited tribute to the lamented President, spaakiug of him in the highest terms.  Mr. Hartwell then reao the following resolution, and address to Mrs. Lincoln :  Resolved—" That the working men of London, in public meeting assErnbled, desiro to record the grief and indignation with which they heard of the assassination of President Lincoln, and the murderous attack upon Mr. Seward, and to convey to Mrs. Lincoln, and to the President, Government, and people of the United States the expression of their deep sympathy and sincere condolence. That the following address of condolence be sent to Mrs. Lincoln :  "TO