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

Municipal Council of Carlisle

Carlisle, May 9, 1865

Resolution passed at a meeting held by the council of the city of Carlisle.

At a meeting of the council of the city of Carlisle, held at the town hall, on Tuesday, the 9th of May, 1865, Thomas Nansom, esq., mayor, in the chair—

Resolved, That this council views with feelings of the utmost horror the atrocious crime by the commission of which the people of the United States of America have been deprived of their Chief Magistrate, and it desires to tender to the government and people of the said States, and also to the afflicted widow and family of the late President, its sincere sympathy and condolence, under the great calamity which has befallen them and the grievous loss they have sustained.

By order:

JOHN RANCON, Town Clerk.