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 Rochdale

Rochdale, May 3, 1865

At a meeting of the council of the town and borough of Rochdale, in the county of Lancaster, in England, held in the council rooms, Rochdale, on the 3d day of May, 1865, John Latham, esq., mayor, in the chair, it was—

Resolved unanimously, That this council has heard with profound regret and horror of the dastardly assassination of President Lincoln, and hereby express its deepest abhorrence of such a deed, and its sincere sympathy with the citizens of the United States, and the widow and family of the late President in the great and irreparable loss which they have sustained.

[seal.]

JOHN LATHAM,

Mayor.