Resolution of the Council of Canterbury

Resolution of the Council of Canterbury

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Municipal government

Council of Canterbury

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

1865-04-27

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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), 189-90.

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), 249.

City and Borough of Canterbury and County of the same, April 27, 1865.

At a special meeting of the council held at the Guildhall, on Thursday, the 27th day of April, 1865, present the mayor in the chair, the following resolution was unanimously adopted by acclamation:

We, the mayor, aldermen, and councillors of the metropolitical city of Canterbury, have learned with startling surprise and deep regret of the death of the President of the United States by the hand of a cowardly assassin; and we desire to express our sympathy with the American minister in London, and through him with his country at large, at this mournful event, which deprives them of their Chief Magistrate, and the world of one of the greatest friends to humanity.

By order:

[seal.]

Rev. WILLIAM FLINT,
 Town Clerk.

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