Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part IV, Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865; the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late president of the United States of America, and the attempted assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, on the evening of the 14th of April, 1865; expressions of condolence and sympathy inspired by these events

Lodge No. 6, I. O. O. F of Washington, D.C.

Washington Lodge, No. 6, I. O. O. F.,
Washington, April 17, 1865.

At the regular meeting of the lodge this evening the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted:

Whereas this lodge has learned with heartfelt sorrow the assassination of the President of the United States, and of the brutal and fiendish attempt on the life of the Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, in his helpless condition; and

Whereas our worthy brother, E. H. Hansell, in the performance of his duty to the honorable Secretary, was also wounded by the assassin’s knife: Therefore,

Resolved, That the thanks of this lodge be and are hereby tendered to the family of the Secretary, particularly to Mrs. Seward, who, in their hour of deep affliction, forgot not our worthy brother, but gave him all the care and tender treatment his situation required.

Resolved, That a copy of the above be transmitted to the family of the honorable secretary.

• WILLIAM H. JOHNSON, Noble Grand.
• AUGUSTUS DAVIS, Vice Grand.
• J. P. M’KEAN, Permanent Secretary.