Sheffield Chamber of Commerce
THE LATE PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
Public Sympathy.—Sheffield Chamber of Commerce.
At a meeting of the council of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures, held at the office of the chamber the 27th of April, 1865, the president (Robert Jackson, esq.) in the chair, it was moved by Joshua Moss, esq., seconded by W. C. Corsan, esq., and resolved—
That the council take this the earliest opportunity of expressing, in the strongest terms, the horror and disgust which they feel at the outrage recently perpetrated in Washington, in consequence of which his excellency President Lincoln has lost his life, and the lives of Mr. Secretary Seward and other persons of distinction have been greatly endangered, if not actually destroyed.
That the council beg also to express their deep sympathy with the American people in the loss, at such a crisis, of one so recently selected for a second time to fill the office of President. In the state of affairs consequent upon the recent successes of the federal arms, the kindly feeling and the evident anxiety to smooth the way to the removal of animosities displayed by President Lincoln in the hour of triumph render his removal, in the opinion of this council, a calamity to all sections of the community.
That in thus giving expression to their feelings of disgust and abhorrence at the crime which has been committed, and their sympathy with the American [Page 339] people, the council are convinced that they are giving utterance to the feelings which these terrible occurrences have excited in the breast of the whole British nation.
President of the Sheffield, Chamber of Commerce.