Inhabitants of St. Catharine’s
Address of the inhabitants of St. Catharine’s.
Madam: On behalf of a large and influential public meeting of the inhabitants of this town, we beg to enclose you the accompanying resolutions, and desire to address you in this hour of trial and sorrow, and to tender you the heartfelt sympathy of our people for the great and irreparable loss you have recently sustained by the sad and sudden death of your late husband, the President of the United States.
In common with the people of this province, we have ever admired the ability, benevolence, sterling integrity, and private worth of your deceased husband, and we feel that while it has pleased Almighty God in His wisdom, by the hand of death, to deprive you of a kind husband, and your family of an affectionate parent, the United States have lost a prudent counsellor, and we have also to mourn the loss of one whose earnest desire it always was to promote the cause of humanity, and so strengthen the ties of friendship between the United States and the British empire.
We earnestly pray that the God of all grace, the Father of the fatherless, and the Comforter of all that are cast down, may restore you at an early day to bodily health, and vouchsafe to you and family that consolation which he has promised in seasons of trial, and that strength which will enable you to bear this heavy affliction which it has pleased Him to send. We have the honor to be yours, respectfully,
- WM. ECCLES, Mayor.
- J. G. CURRIE, M. S. C.
- J. R. BENSON.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, Washington.