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

Municipal Council of Margate

Resolution of the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Margate.

We, the mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Margate, in the county of Kent, learn with deep regret the death of his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America, by the hand of a cowardly assassin, and desire to express our warmest sympathy with the American nation at so lamentable and horrible an event, which has deprived the people of the greatest ornament of their country, and the world of one of the best friends of humanity.

Given under our common seal the second day of May. A, D 1865.

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• THOMAS H. KEBLE, Mayor.
• WM. BROOKE, Town Clerk.