Letter

Holmfirth Chamber of Commerce, May 8, 1865

Author
BOOTH, Secretary
Date
May 8, 1865
Type
Letter
Language
English

Holmfirth Chamber of Commerce

Holmfirth, May 8, 1865

Resolution of the Holmfirth Chamber of Commerce.

At a meeting of the council held on the 8th of May, 1865, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:

  • “That this chamber desires to express its abhorrence of the assassination of the late President of the United States of America, and to offer its sympathy to Mrs. Lincoln and family, and the American people, in their painful bereavement.”
  • BENJAMIN CRAVEN, President.
  • SAMUEL S. BOOTH, Secretary.
Topics
19th CenturyDiplomacyReconstruction
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.