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

Legislative Assembly of Vancouver’s Island, Victoria

Vancouver’s Island, Victoria, April 22, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to transmit the copy of a resolution adopted by the legislative assembly of Vancouver’s Island, on the 28th instant, expressing their sympathy in the calamity which has befallen the United States of America, in the death of their President, Abraham Lincoln, in which expression of sympathy I fully join.

I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient servant,

A. E. KENNEDY,

Governor .

Allen Francis, Esq.,
United States Consul, &c.,&c., &c, Victoria.

Resolution passed by the legislative assembly of Vancouver’s Island, on the 20th day of April, 1865.

Resolved, That this house, taking into consideration the great calamity which has befallen the United States of America, and the rest of the civilized world, in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, does adjourn till tomorrow as a mark of respect to the memory of the great departed, the chief of a nation connected by the nearest ties with our own, and glorying in the same origin, the same traditions, and the same freedom.

R. W. TORRENS,

Clerk of the House .