Inhabitants of Waterford
Town Clerk’s Office, Waterford,
Ireland,
Monday,
May 8, 1865.
Sir: By direction of the right worshipful the
mayor of Waterford, I have the honor to transmit to your excellency a copy
of a resolution unanimously adopted at a meeting of the citizens, in
reference to the late melancholy event which unhapply deprived your
government of its head.
Permit me, sir, to offer you the assurance of my sincere sympathy and
condolence, which I feel in common with all classes of my
fellow-citizens.
I have the honor to be your excellency’s most obedient, humble servant,
GEORGE J. BRISCOE,
Secretary.
The President
of the United States of America,
Washington, D. C.
City of Waterford, Ireland.
At a meeting of the citizens of Waterford, held at the Town Hall, on
Thursday, the 4th instant, to express the sympathy and condolence with
the people of America, shared in by all classes of the city of
Waterford, the right worshipful John Lawler, mayor, in the chair—
Resolved, una voce, That we, the citizens of
Waterford, feel called upon to unite in the very general expression of
indignation and horror at the cowardly and most atrocious assassination
of Mr. Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, and also the
similar brutal attack on the life of Mr. Secretary Seward; and we
request that our chief magistrate, John Lawler, esq., will forthwith
transmit to Mr. President Johnson the expression of these our
sentiments, as well as of our deep and sincere sympathy with the people
of America for their sufferings under so dreadful a national calamity as
this most henious act has given rise to.
Resolved, una voce, That, although at the risk of
intrusion on her intense grief, we cannot allow ourselves to separate
without offering to Mrs. Lincoln our deep sympathy and sorrow for the
very sad and sudden bereavement which she has endured in the loss of her
husband, whom we have recognized to have been so good a man while
holding the reins of the American government.
To attempt on our part to afford consolation would, we feel, be an
impossibility; but we most humbly and prayerfully commend her to the
care and protection of Him who alone can dispense full and adequate
comfort and consolation under the severest circumstances of affliction,
whether of a national or a domestic character.
By order of the mayor:
GEORGE J. BRISCOE,
Secretary.
Town Clerk’s Office, Town Hall,
Waterford, Ireland,
Monday, the 8th of May, 1865.
