Resolutions of the Inhabitants of Saint Helens

Resolutions of the Inhabitants of Saint Helens

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Demonstrations

Inhabitants of Saint Helens

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

1865-05-03

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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), 332.

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), 436.

Resolutions passed unanimously at a meeting of the inhabitants of St. Helens, Lancashire, convened in compliance with a numerously signed requisition, and held at Volunteer Hall, St. Helens, on the 3d of May, 1865.

1. Resolved, That the inhabitants of St. Helens, in public meeting assembled, do hereby express their strongest feelings of abhorrence and indignation at the atrocious assassination of the President of the United States, and also at the dastardly attempt upon the life of Mr. Seward, the Secretary of State.

2. That this meeting hereby records its deepest sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln and her family under their present heart-rending bereavement, and trusts that the universal condolence of all the rightminded and virtuous throughout the world may be some solace to them in their grievous affliction.

3. That this meeting desires to convey to the people of the United States an expression of heartfelt sympathy in the loss they have sustained by the cruel death of their most excellent President.

ROBERT McNICOLL,
Chairman.

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