Title
Resolution of the Council of Carlisle
Subject
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Presidents--Assassination
Condolence notes
Municipal government
Creator
Council of Carlisle
Source
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
Publisher
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Date
1865-05-09
Format
pdf
Language
eng
Identifier
RG59E177-99
Coverage
54.8833, -2.9333
Carlisle
United Kingdom
England
Has Version
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), 194.
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), 254-55.
Transcription
Resolution passed at a meeting held by the council of the city of Carlisle.
At a meeting of the council of the city of Carlisle, held at the town hall, on Tuesday, the 9th of May, 1865, Thomas Nansom, esq., mayor, in the chair—
Resolved, That this council views with feelings of the utmost horror the atrocious crime by the commission of which the people of the United States of America have been deprived of their Chief Magistrate, and it desires to tender to the government and people of the said States, and also to the afflicted widow and family of the late President, its sincere sympathy and condolence, under the great calamity which has befallen them and the grievous loss they have sustained.
By order:
JOHN RANCON,
Town Clerk.
Status
Complete
Percent Completed
100
Weight
20
Original Format
paper and ink
1
20.25x25.5 cm