Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Hereford to Charles Francis Adams

Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Hereford to Charles Francis Adams

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Municipal government

Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of Hereford

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), 229.

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), 301.

Hon. Charles F. Adams,
 Minister of the United States in England:

Honored Sir: We, the mayor, aldermen, and citizens of Hereford, in council assembled, view with the utmost detestation and horror the flagitious crime by which the life of Mr. President Lincoln has been so cruelly sacrificed, and desire to express the deep sympathy we entertain with the government and people of the United States of America under the severe calamity which this atrocious act has inflicted upon them.

We also beg most respectfully to offer to Mrs. Lincoln our sincere condolence under the awful bereavement which she has sustained.

And we are most anxious to convey to the American nation our sentiments of deep grief and indignation at the cowardly attack which has been made upon the life of Mr. Secretary Seward, together with our earnest hope that he may very soon recover from the severe wounds which have been inflicted upon him.

As the representatives of the inhabitants of this ancient city, we request that you will do us the favor to forward to the President of the United States, to Mrs. Lincoln, and to Mr. Secretary Seward these expressions of our sentiments, with the assurance that it is our anxious desire that no other feelings than such as are consonent with those above expressed will ever prevail between the people of this realm and those of the United States.

Sealed with our corporate common seal, at our council chamber in the Guildhall of the city of Hereford, this 2d day of May, 1865.

[seal.]

THOMAS CANN,
Mayor.

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