1865. T 219 [Kensington Lodge. 



Stated Meeting, June 16, 1865. 



Present twenty members. 



President, Dr. Wood, in the chair. 



A letter was received from a committee of the Kensington 

 Lodge, No. 11, I. 0. of 0. F., dated April 19, 1865, em- 

 bracing the following preamble and resolutions: 



Whereas, Our land and nation has been horrified by the cool and 

 deliberate murder of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United 

 States, at the hands of a desperate and bloody assassin, for no other 

 cause than his unceasing efibrts to re-establish the authority of the 

 nation over the whole length and breadth of our wide domain, at a 

 time when every patriot heart was filled with joy at the near prospect 

 of peace, through the valor of our sons and our brothers upon the 

 battle-field, while armed treason was bowing its head to the power of 

 the nation, and trailing its hated flag in the dust; and 



Whereas, As a part of that free people who placed in his hands 

 the power with which he was intrusted for the good of the whole, 

 we claim the right of expressing our grief at this national calamity, 

 in the loss to the nation of a good kind heart, whose every beat was 

 filled with love to his native land, and whose charity was wide 

 enough to enfold every repentant sinner against the integrity of the 

 government within its embrace; and of expressing our condolence 

 with the family of our late Chief Magistrate, in the loss of the hus- 

 band and father, endeared to them by his many sterling qualities of 

 mind and heart; therefore be it 



Resohed, That we deplore the sad event which has in a moment 

 removed from us as a nation our head, beloved as he was by all for his 

 sterling honesty and uprightness of character, and exhibiting as he 

 did in his own person the true genius of American institutions, that 

 no place is too high for the poorest of our people, if they are but true 

 to themselves, and nurture and cultivate the generous impulses of 

 heart and mind given by the Great Father of us all. 



. Resolved, That we extend our sympathy to the family of our de- 

 ceased President, with the heartfelt prayer that He who tempers the 

 wind to the shorn lamb may so temper this painful dispensation to 



