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

Inhabitants of Liverpool

Liverpool, April 27, 1865

Resolution passed at a meeting held by the inhabitants of the borough of Liverpool.

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Liverpool, held in St. George’s Hall, on Thursday, the 27th day of April, 1865, Edward Laurence, esq., mayor, in the chair, it was

Resolved unanimously, That the inhabitants of Liverpool, in public meeting assembled, do hereby express their deepest sorrow and indignation at the atrocious assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and of Mr. Frederick Seward, Assistant Secretary of State; and at the dastardly attempt, about the same hour, on the life of Mr. Seward, Secretary of State. They desire that the government and the people of the United States should understand that no difference of opinion on the merits of the conflict of the last four years avails to prevent the unanimous condemnation of so great a crime against our common humanity.

EDWARD LAURENCE,

Mayor.