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 Stalybridge

Stalybridge, May 5, 1865

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of the borough of Stalybridge, in the counties of Lancaster and Chester, duly convened by his worshipful the mayor, and held in the Town Hall in the borough of Stalybridge, on Friday, the 5th day of May, 1865, James Sidebottom, esq., mayor, in the chair, it was

Unanimously resolved, That this meeting would convey the expression of its heartfelt feelings of sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln, together with the government and people of America, under their great affliction, and would hail with delight the carrying out of the conciliatory policy indicated by the late President, and the restoration of peace upon a just and enlightened basis.

JAMES SIDEBOTTOM,

Mayor.