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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1865.

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as a body if they were able to look upon this as the
desperate act of a few desperate men, and did not
visit that crime upon the general body of the citizens
of the South. (Applause.) He moved the following
resolution :
" That the citizens of Manchester now assembled
desire to express their horror and detestation of the
deplorable crime which has resulted in the violent
death of the chief magistrate of the American Re-
public, Abraham Lincoln, and of the attempt to mur-
der Mr. Seward and some members of his family •
and they desire most earnestly and respectfully to
convey to the authorities of the United States their
deep sympathies with them on the sad loss they have
sustained."

withstanding the expression of public sympathy for
the widow of the late President of America and the
American people generally in public meeting last
Tuesday night, he thought that that council ought
also to show its horror and detestation of the crime,
and embody it in the form of a resolution. He
therefore moved—

"'The Sun' evening newspaper has just issued a photo-
graph, 9 inches by 7, of its first page as it appeared on 'he 2d
of last January. The card tonne quite a literary curiosity,
a,.d is one of the best specimens of minu•e typography ever
published."—London Review.

" That a committee be appointed to prepare for
presentation to Mr. Adams, the American Minister
in this country, an address from the corporation of
Blackburn, expressive of our views of the assassina-
tion of the late President Lincoln and the attempt
upon the life of Mr. Seward, and of the deep sym-
pathy and feeling for Mrs. Lincoln and her family
and the American people."
Alderman CUNNINGHAM seconded the motion,
which was unanimously agreed to.
A sub-committee was then appointed to draw up
the address at once, and the Mayor was requested
to present it personally to Mr. Adams,with a request
that he forward it in due course.

Mi. Alderman CURTIS seconded the resolution,
which, he said, required no eloquence to commend
it. 11 there was one crime more than another
which was alien and detestable to English feeling
it was that of assassination. lae was glad to see
that the Confederateprisoners and others repudiated
and abhorred the act that had taken place. Men
like those who had engaged in the great struggle
could not for a moment be suspected of sanctioning
such a horrible crime. (Hear, hear.)
The Rer. D. E. FORD said there could hardly be
more than one shade of -opinion upon the general
question—all hated the detestable act.
The resolution was unanimously carried.
Mr. OLIVER HEYWOOD moved :

" That this meeting desires most respectfully to
present to Mrs. Lincoln its sincere sympathy and
condolence on the melaznebol- he has sustained
in the death of her husband."

The last time the Mayor called a similar meeting
was to enable, the citizens of Manchester to express
their deep sorrow and regret at the loss of a great
and distinguished citizen of their own (Mr. Cobden)
—a distinguished man, • who had peacefully and
quietly passed to his rest, after a life spent in pro-
moting the blessings of peace. Our American
neighbours were beginning to sympathise with us in
our great sorrow when the occasion arose demand-
ing our sympathy in theirs ; and it seemed that the
coincidence of the two events would draw us more
closely to one another. (Applause.) Almost precisely
at the period when our own distinguished man of
peace had passed away, another had been removed
by a cowardly and cruel crime from a scene in which
during the midst of warfare, struggle, difficulty, and
contest, he had performed his life's duty and work.
(Applause.) A man of peace in many respects not
less was he than the man who had been taken from
our midst--(applause)—taken as Mr. Lincoln was
in the critical, if not crowning, moment of, his life.
In some lines written several years ago respecting
the battle of the Alma the words occurred, " What
will they say in England ?" and then after describ-
ing the struggle which took place, the gallantry dis-
played, and the lives lost, the lines concluded thus—
" They will say in Christian England
'God's holy will be done."
(Applause.) This terrible calamity had fallen .so
suddenly upon the Americans that they had no time
to ask what would be said in England, and all the
more beautiful would it be that before the question
was asked there camb back to them what England
had to say. (Applause.) And what we hid to say
in a few words was this :—To express our sincere
sympathy with the great loss of the American
people ; to say how tenderly and affectionately—
for, as Mr. Disraeli said, the event appealed to our
domestic feelings—we sympathised with Mrs. Lin-
coln ; and we had also to say that we hoped it would
be God's will that out of this great calamity should
come forth universal good, and speedy peace
throughout the great empire of America ; that out
of it might come a united people—(applause)—that
out•of it might come freedom to those who had
hitherto been kept in bondage--(applause)—that
out of it might come what we all so much desired—
a cessation of bickerings and unkindliness between
them and us, and a mutual understanding that our
interests, hopes, and purposes were, and should be,
the same. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. W. M'CLunE seconded the motion, which
was unanimously carried.

The Mayor of SALFORD (Mr. Wright Turner)
moved that the Mayor of Manchester should be re-
quested to transmit the above resolutions to Mr.
Adams, the American Minister. (Applause.)
Mr. M. Ross, President of the• Chamber of Com-
merce, seconded the resolution. He said he had
never in the Manchester Town-hall heard the ex-
pression of stronger or more unanimous feeling,
nor witnessed a greater demonstration of respectful
sympathy than the present, when they were met to
testify their real regret at the loss of an amiable
man in the very fulness of his career. For a man,
resting for an hour from the fatigues and anxieties
of the day, to be thus stabbed and struck down from
behind by a cowardly assassin in cold blood was one
of the most detestable of crimes. (Applause.)
The resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. Alderman HEYWOOD moved a vote of thanks
to the Mayor for presiding. !Ile said that great ho-
nour was due to the Mayor for calling the meeting,
so that the people of Manchester might thoroughly
express their indignation at the dastardly act, their
sympathy with the American nation, and their hopes
that 'what had taken place would be tho means of
uniting more strongly than ever the peoples of Eng-
land and America.