Letter
Municipal Council of Canterbury, April 27, 1865
Municipal Council of Canterbury
City and Borough of Canterbury and County of the same, April 27, 1865.
At a special meeting of the council held at the Guildhall, on Thursday, the 27th day of April, 1865, present the mayor in the chair, the following resolution was unanimously adopted by acclamation:
We, the mayor, aldermen, and councillors of the metropolitical city of Canterbury, have learned with startling surprise and deep regret of the death of the President of the United States by the hand of a cowardly assassin; and we desire to express our sympathy with the American minister in London, and through him with his country at large, at this mournful event, which deprives them of their Chief Magistrate, and the world of one of the greatest friends to humanity.
By order:
[seal.]
Rev. WILLIAM FLINT,
Town Clerk.
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FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth
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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.