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 Fermo

Fermo, May 10, 1865

[Translation.]

MUNICIPALITY OF FERMO.

Resolution of the Municipal Council of Fermo, at the session of May 10, 1865.

proposition.

The mayor presiding, the Marquis Chevalier Joseph Ignatio Trevisani read to the council a resolution of the municipality of Palermo, by which public homage is rendered to the glorious name of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, barbarously murdered by the propagandists of slavery. After approving the action of said municipality, he proposed to the council the following order of the day:

This council, struck with horror at the violent death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, considering that the abolition of slavery, in the triumph of which he was sacrificed, is a matter which interests humanity at large, and wishing, by a public demonstration, to do honor to that great name—

Resolve, 1. To give the name of Abraham Lincoln to the new street opened on the south side of this city.

2. To communicate to the United States consul general at Florence the present deliberation.

All present, standing, applauded the motion of the mayor, which was adopted by acclamation.

• G. TREVISANI, Mayor.
• C. SILVESTRI, Senior Alderman.
• L. TRANQUILLE, Secretary.