Address of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Walsall to the Government and the People of the United States of America, and to Mrs. Lincoln

Address of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Walsall to the Government and the People of the United States of America, and to Mrs. Lincoln

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Municipal government

Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Walsall

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), 355-56.

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), 466.

Address of the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Walsall, in the county of Stafford, to the government and people of the United States of America, and to Mrs. Lincoln.

The mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Walsall, in council assembled, unanimously desire to express to the government and people of the United States of America their abhorrence of the foul and cowardly crime which has lately deprived the States of the life of their President, and embittered the happiness which all must feel at the prospect of approaching peace. The council desire also to express their deep sympathy with Mrs. Lincoln and her family under the terrible bereavement, and their earnest wishes for tranquillity and prosperity to their brethren of the States.

Given under the common seal of the borough the 3d day of May, 1865.

[seal.]

THOS. HAZLEDINE,
Mayor.

SAM’L WILKINSON, Jr.,
Town Clerk.

 

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