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

Inhabitants of Bridlington

May 15, 1865

At a public meeting of the inhabitants of Bridlington and the Quay, held in the Town Hall, on Monday the 15th May, 1865, convened by the chief lord of the Manor, in compliance with a requisition, numerously and respectably signed, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:

1st. That this meeting desires to express emphatically its feelings of horror and indignation at the atrocious crime by which the life of Mr. Lincoln has been sacrificed, and that of Mr. Seward endangered, and its warm sympathy with the American people in the loss they have sustained in the untimely death of their distinguished President.

(Moved by the Rev. J. Dickinson, independent minister; seconded by Mr. John Reed.)

2d. That this meeting desires to convey to Mrs. Lincoln its sincere and earnest expression of sympathy and condolence in the heavy bereavement she has sustained by the sudden and untimely death of her distinguished husband.

(Moved by the Rev. J. Hodgson, Primitive Methodist minister; seconded by Mr. P. Mackley.)

3d. That the aforesaid resolutions be forwarded by Thomas Cape, esq., chief lord, the chairman of this meeting, to the honorable 0. F. Adams, the American minister, to be by him sent to the American government and to Mrs. Lincoln.

(Moved by the Rev. Thomas Barnes, United Methodist church; seconded by George Barm, esq., West Hunton House.)

THOMAS CAPE,

Chairman.