T. McWhennie to Charles Stanley Monck

T. McWhennie to Charles Stanley Monck

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Demonstrations

T. McWhennie

Record Group 59: General Records of the Department of State, 1763-2002, Entry 177: Foreign Messages on the Death of Abraham Lincoln, 1865, National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

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Woodstock, Ontario

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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States of America, and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1866), 359.

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Late President of the United States of America, and the Attempted Assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867), 470.

Woodstock, April 20, 1865.

His Excellency the Rt. Hon. Charles Stanley Monck,
Baron Monck of Ballytrammore, in the county of Wexford,
 Governor General of the Province of Canada:

May it please your Excellency: In accordance with a resolution adopted at a public meeting held yesterday in this town for the purpose of expressing horror at the committal of a deed which makes every civilized mind shudder, and sympathy for the bereaved family and the people in the neighboring republic in the lamentable and untimely death of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by the hand of a cruel and relentless assassin, I beg, respectfully, to transmit a copy of the proceedings of said meeting, with the respectful request that your excellency may be pleased to transmit the resolutions to the proper authorities of the United States of America.

Yours, &c.,

T. McWHENNIE,
Mayor.

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