Resolution of Government of City of Aberdeen, Scotland to Charles Francis Adams

Resolution of Government of City of Aberdeen, Scotland to Charles Francis Adams

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Municipal government

City of Aberdeen, Scotland

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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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), 156.

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), 206.

At Aberdeen, the first day of May, in the year 1865, in presence of the lord provost, magistrates and council of the city of Aberdeen.

Which day the lord provost stated that, before proceeding to the ordinary business, he would propose "that the council enter on their minutes an expresion of the sorrow and indignation which pervaded this city on receiving the intelligence that the President of the United States of America had been murdered, and the life of one of their most distinguished statesmen (Mr. Seward) endangered by the hands of assassins; and also of the earnest sympathy of the council and community with the government and people of the United States." Which proposal was unanimously agreed to; and the council directed a copy of this resolution, under the common seal of the city, to be signed by the lord provost, and transmitted to the minister in this country of the United States.

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Alexander,
Lord Provost of Aberdeen.

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