Letter

Croft to J. K. Glaiszer , Honorary Secretary, April 27, 1865

Union and Emancipation Society

From the council of the Huddersfield Union and Emancipation Society.

Thomas Stephenson, Esq., Consular agent of the United States at Huddersfield:

Sir: We have learned with the deepest horror and regret that the President of the United States of America has been basely assassinated, and we desire to express our profound sympathy in the sad event, with his family and friends, a sentiment which must be shared by the friends of liberty everywhere.

Signed on behalf of the council of the Huddersfield Union and Emancipation Society.
  • MATHEW HALE.
  • THOMAS DENHAM.
  • JOHN GLAISZER.
  • HENRY REVILL.
  • WILLIAM R. CROFT.

J. K. Glaiszer, Honorary Secretary.

Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth.