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 Hertford

Hertford, May 10, 1865

At a quarterly meeting of the council of the borough of Hertford, held May 10, 1865—present: Jasper Gripper, esq., mayor; aldermen, Squire, Austin, and Young; councillors, Armstrong, Cocks, Haggar, Hancock, Neall, Pollard, Manser, Twaddle, Wilson, and Woodhouse, M. D.—it was unanimously—

Resolved, That this corporation wishes, emphatically, to express the feelings of indignation and grief with which they have heard of the atrocious acts by which the United States of America have been suddenly deprived of their President, and the life of his chief secretary endangered; and that they recall with sorrowful interest the friendly feelings invariably displayed by the late President Lincoln toward this country.

PHILIP LONGMORE,

Town Clerk.