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

Consul of Great Britain

British Consulate,
New Orleans, April 19, 1865.

Sir: The painful intelligence received here from the North this morning of the death of the President of the United States by the hand of an assassin impels me to offer you, general, and the military authorities of this department, my sincere condolence on this calamity which has befallen the country.

I am sure that I but express the universal sentiment of the British subjects who reside in this military division when I say that the intelligence of this dreadful calamity will be received by all with feelings of deep sensibility.

Occurring at a time when the approaching return of peace was being welcomed, not only by the people of this country, but by the whole civilized world, this great national calamity is more especially to be deplored.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your most obedient, humble servant,

DENIS DONOIIUE,

H. M. Consul.

Major General Canby, U. S. A.,
Commanding Military Division of the West Mississippi, &c., &c., &c.