Resolutions of the Inhabitants of Liverpool

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Title

Resolutions of the Inhabitants of Liverpool

Subject

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Presidents--Assassination
Condolence notes
Demonstrations

Creator

Inhabitants of Liverpool

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

1865-04-27

Format

pdf

Language

eng

Identifier

RG59E177-216

Coverage

53.4167, -3.0000
Liverpool
England
United Kingdom

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), 254.
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), 334.

Transcription

LiverpoolApril 27, 1865.

At a meeting of the inhabitants of Liverpool, held in St. George’s Hall, on the evening of Thursday, the 27th of April, 1865, called for the purpose of expressing sorrow and indignation at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, the following resolutions were passed unanimously:

1. That this meeting of the inhabitants of Liverpool records its horror and detestation of the atrocious assassination perpetrated at Washington, on the fourteenth of this month.

2. That this meeting desires to express its deepest sympathy with the families of President Lincoln and Mr. Seward in the great affliction which has befallen them.

3. That this meeting desires, also, to express its profound sympathy with the people of the United States in the loss they have sustained by the death of President Lincoln, and its earnest hope that the events we now deplore may not imperil or delay the triumph of freedom and of right, or the restoration of peace in America.

4. That the resolutions now passed be signed by the chairman on behalf of the meeting, and be transmitted through the proper authorities to Washington.

CHARLES WILSON,
Chairman.

Status

Complete

Percent Completed

100

Weight

20

Original Format

paper and ink
2 p.
20.25x33 cm

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