Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part IV, Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865; the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late president of the United States of America, and the attempted assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, on the evening of the 14th of April, 1865; expressions of condolence and sympathy inspired by these events

Merchants, Brokers, and others of Cardiff

Charles Edward Burch,
Consul for the United States of America at Cardiff:

We, the undersigned, the merchants, brokers, and others at this port, beg to convey to you our sympathy, indignation, and horror at the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, the President of the United States. We feel that his loss will be deplored not only by the British nation, but throughout the civilized world, and we sincerely trust and believe that the great nation you represent will be able to bear with dignity, and that its future progress will in no way be impeded by, the great and irreparable loss it has sustained.

Dated this 29th day of April, 1865.

• JOHN PRIDE, Mayor.
• WILLIAM ALEXANDER, Alderman and Justice of the Peace.
• D. HOWELL, Treasurer of St. John’s, Cardiff.
• SAMUEL NASH.
• SYDNEY D. JENKINS.
• THOS. HODGE.
• JOHN WILLIAMS.
• JOSEPH ELLIOTT.
• J. H. WILSON.
• And some fifty others.