Resolution of the Inhabitants of Wednesbury

Resolution of the Inhabitants of Wednesbury

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Presidents--Assassination

Condolence notes

Demonstrations

Wednesbury Board of Health

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

1865-05-05

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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), 360.

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), 471.

Wednesbury Local Board of Health, May 5, 1865.

Sir: I am instructed by the above Board of Health, as representing the inhabitants of the town of Wednesbury, containing upwards of 23,000 population, to forward to you a copy of a resolution passed at the last meeting of the board held on the 1st of this present month of May, as follows:

Resolved, That this board expresses its detestation of the assassination of President Lincoln, and of the brutal attack upon Secretary Seward, and also its sympathy with the people of the United States of America upon the great and irreparable loss they have sustained thereby. I am, sir, your most obedient servant,

WILLIAM TANLY BAILEY,
 Clerk of the Board.

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