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

Union and Emancipation Society

Huddersfield, April 27, 1865.

From the council of the Huddersfield Union and Emancipation Society.

Thomas Stephenson, Esq.,
Consular agent of the United States at Huddersfield:

Sir: We have learned with the deepest horror and regret that the President of the United States of America has been basely assassinated, and we desire to express our profound sympathy in the sad event, with his family and friends, a sentiment which must be shared by the friends of liberty everywhere.

Signed on behalf of the council of the Huddersfield Union and Emancipation Society.

• MATHEW HALE.
• THOMAS DENHAM.
• JOHN GLAISZER.
• HENRY REVILL.
• WILLIAM R. CROFT.

J. K. Glaiszer, Honorary Secretary.