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cause which he had conducted; and while he was in hopes 

 of giving to his people the peace so long desired. Our 

 colleagues wish, in an address, to express the sympathy not 

 of this House, that I may say in order to remove all appre- 

 hension of a violation of the rules, but the sympathy of 

 the individual members of the House, in this great and 

 unhappy event. This address we desire to present to the 

 minister of the United States. 



" Gentlemen, I will lay the paper on the table, and I beg 

 those of my colleagues who share with me the feeling of 

 warm and heartfelt sympathy in the lot of a nation which 

 is united by so many bonds with our own people, to give 

 expression to those feelings by appending their signatures 

 to the address. These sympathies I regard as all the more 

 justified since the United States have won a new and 

 splendid triumph for mankind, through the great struggle 

 which they have been carrying on for the cause of true 

 humanity, and which, as I confidently hope, in spite of 

 this murder of their chief, they will conduct to a successful 

 termination. In expressing our feelings of pain, we desire, 

 at the same time, to prove our hearty sympathy with the 

 American nation, and those of our brothers, who have 

 taken part in the struggle for their cause. The man, 

 gentlemen, who has fallen by the murderer's hand, and 

 w^hom I seem to see with his simple, honest countenance; 

 the man who accomplished such great deeds from the 

 simple desire conscientiously to perform his duty; the 

 man who never wished to be more or less than the sincere 

 and faithful servant of his people ; this man will find his 

 own glorious place in the pages of history. In the deepest 

 reverence, I bow my head before this modest greatness, 

 and I think it is especially agreeable to the spirit of my 

 own nation, with its deep inner life and admiration of self- 

 sacrificing devotion and effort after the ideal, to pay the 

 tribute of veneration to such greatness, exalted as it is by 



