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

Methodist New Connection Conference at Lynden, Canada West

Methodist New Connexion Conference,
Assembled at Lynden, C. W., June, 13, 1865.

Resolution 109: That we, as a branch of the Church of Christ, beg to express our feelings of detestation and abhorrence at the spirit that planned, and the monster in human form who perpetrated, the foul act of assassinating the late honored President of the United States; and while we thus give utterance to our deep feelings of sympathy with his bereaved family and nation, most earnestly would we pray that the day may never come when such scenes of horror shall be repeated in any nation; that human slavery may soon be brought permanently to an end; and that the commercial interests and bonds of Christian brotherhood which now so closely unite the American and British nations may never be lessened.

110. That the secretary of this conference transmit a copy of the above resolution to the American Secretary of State.

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WILLIAM TENDALL,

Secretary of Conference.