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

Inhabitants of Bournemouth

Bournemouth, April 28, 1865.

We, the undersigned, inhabitants of Bournemouth, have learned with the deepest honor and regret that the President of the United States of America has been deprived of life by an act of violence, and we desire to express our sympathy on the sad event with the American minister in London, as well as to declare our hope and confidence in the future of that great country, which, we trust, will continue to be associated with enlightened freedom, and peaceful relations with this and every other country.

• A. MORDEN BENNETT,
  Perpetual Curate.
• R. S. McDOWALL, M. A.,
  Assistant Curate of St. Peters.
• ALEX. B. ARMOUR.
• WILLOUGHBY W. BURSLEM, M. D.
• L. UPPLELY.
• GEORGE J. BARKER, Banker.
• CHRIST’R C. CREELES.
• FRED. W. COATES, M. D.
• WM. STEWART FALH, M. D.
• ROBT. CAIM LIPPINCOTT.
  And over one hundred other names.

His Excellency the Hon. Charles F. Adams,
Minister of the United States of North America, at London.