Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress

Mr. Adams to Mr. Hunter

No. 996.]

Legation of the United States, London, June 22, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to transmit a few more addresses, &c, on the assassination of the late President. As this process has now pretty much come to an end, the probability is that you already have all the means in your power to decide upon the most advisable and compendious mode of acknowledgment.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,

CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS.

William Hunter, Esq., Acting Secretary of State, Washington, D. C

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Addresses, &c, for the President, from Cardiff, and Boston, Lincolnshire.

Addresses, &c, for Mrs. Lincoln, from The Ladies’ Negroes’ Friend Society, Cardiff.

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The following resolution was passed unanimously at a pubic meeting in Cardiff, on the 12th of June, 1865, after a lecture delivered by the Rev. J. S. Balmer, of Bridgewater, on the late President Lincoln and his assassination:

“That this meeting desires to express its horror and indignation at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the late distinguished President of America, and to assure the bereaved widow and the American people of its deepest sympathy with them in this hour of great trial. It would further express the ardent prayer that America may yet come out of this struggle trusting in God, who has. hitherto been its helper, and that guided by Him, it may be led to permanent peace, great prosperity, and entire national freedom.”

[For above enclosures see Appendix, separate volume.]