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 Hastings

Town Clerk’s Office,
Hastings, May 6, 1865.

Resolution of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Hastings.

Sir: At a meeting of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses, the council of the borough of Hastings, held on the 5th instant, it was—

Resolved, That this council has heard with extreme horror and indignation the news’ of the assassination of the late President of the United States, and desire that the people of those States do understand that the people of this municipality are full of sympathy with them, under the disgraceful act by which President Lincoln lost his life.

At the above-named meeting of the council of this borough I was instructed to forward a copy of the resolution to the American ambassador.

I have the honor to be your most obedient servant,

ROBERT GROWSE,

Town Clerk.

C. F. Adams, Esq., American Ambassador.