Letter

Municipal Council of Margate, second day of May. A, D 1865

Author

BROOKE, Town Clerk

Date

May 2, 1865

Type

Letter

Language

English

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.

[seal]

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

Topics

19th Century Diplomacy Reconstruction

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.