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

Workingmen of Hinton Martell

Hinton Martell, May 17, 1865

Resolutions passed at a meeting held by the working men of Hinton Martell, Dorset county.

At a public meeting of the working men, held (by permission) in the schoolroom, Hinton Martell, near Wimbourne, in the county of Dorset, on Wednesday, May 17, 1865, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:

• That this meeting having heard with great regret of the assassination of Mr. President Lincoln, beg most humbly, but very respectfully, to tender through his excellency the American ambassador residing in this country, to the government and people of the United States of America, their most earnest sympathy and condolence, and to express their detestation and horror of the crime.
• That his excellency be requested to convey to Mrs. Lincoln the assurance, that by no class in this country will there be felt for her a more earnest and true sympathy under this great trial than that experienced by us, a few of the agricultural laborers of Dorset.

Signed on behalf of the meeting:

HARRY STOKES,

Chairman.