Resolved, That when we reflect that this act, by which a nation is thrown into mourning and a government threatened with confusion, was effected through the instrumentality of young men, we profoundly feel the necessity for a more united and earnest effort on the part of our associations to care for the morals and habits of the young men of America. CHARLES E. WHITEHEAD, At a special meeting of the vestry of Trinity church, called by the rector upon the arrival of the news of the assassination of the President of the United States, and held at three o'clock p. m. on Saturday, the 15th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, the following preamble and resolutions were adopted: ! Whereas, on the evening of the 14th day of April, 1865, being Good Friday, by an assassin as yet unknown, the venerated and beloved President of the United States, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, was suddenly assaulted and slain; and whereas the announcement of that appalling crime has just been made to this community, filling all hearts with a grief, astonishment, and indignation which cannot be described; and whereas this vestry has been called together by the rector to take such action as, in their judgment, may be fit and becoming: Therefore, Resolved, That this vestry, as sharers in the common distress and affliction, unite in the public lamentation over the untimely death of the honored Chief Magistrate of the Union, and, shocked beyond measure at the intelligence which has just been received, remain without words adequate to express their sorrow. Resolved, That we recognize in this calamitous event one of those visitations permitted by Almighty God, before which a nation can but bow in silence and awe, with the prayer that they may be overruled for the good of our country. Resolved, That while we regard the act by which our beloved country has thus been, through indescribable malice and fury, plunged into the deepest affliction, as one of those crimes. of which no language can adequately paint the atrocity-of which the history of Europe has not for many centuries furnished a parallel-of which our own history has afforded thus far no example, and than which no history presents a more detestable and infamous act to the viewwe cannot but hold it to have been dictated by the spirit which, from the commencement of our national troubles, has sympathized with the enemies of the public peace, and aided and abetted the rebellion now, as we trust, subdued; a spirit whose tendencies and essential character had previously been manifested in the July riots in this city in 1863, in the attempt to destroy this city by incendiarism in November last, and in the systematic outrages inflicted on our captured soldiers in the prisons of the South. Resolved, That this vestry hereby record their tribute of respect to the memory of the late President, with profound sorrow for his loss, recognizing in him a singleness of purpose, an honesty of intention, an ardent patriotism, a fidelity to duty, and a growing mastery of the circumstances of his position, which enabled him, under Providence, to fulfil and bring to successful completion a work almost unprecedented for difficulty; and that in his removal, at the moment in which the labors of his last four years had culminated in the triumph of the national authority, and the evident approach of the blessings of peace, we see the completion of a career which the nation will ever look back to with thankfulness, and hold in affectionate and tender remembrance. Resolved, That the rector be requested to take order, that the churches of this parish be draped in mourning, in token of our sympathy with the distress and anguish which have been caused throughout the length and breadth of the land by the murder of our venerated and beloved Chief Magistrate. York. Attested by order of the corporation of Trinity church, in the city of New MORGAN DIX, Rector. Resolutions passed at a meeting held by the trustees of Columbia College, New York. At a meeting of the trustees of Columbia College, in the city of New York on the seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, the following resolutions were passed: Whereas, in the midst of universal exultation and gladness at the brilliant success of the national arms, and at the prospect of the speedy extinction of the existing great rebellion, and of the restoration of Union and peace to our distracted country, the nation has been suddenly shocked, and the hearts of the people have been wrung with anguish, by the foul assassination of our venerated and beloved Chief Magistrate, and by a simultaneous attempt upon the life of the honored Secretary of State of the United States: Therefore be it Resolved, By the board of trustees of Columbia College, that by the death of ABRAHAM LINCOLN the American nation has lost a man whose simplicity and native energy of character, honesty and tenacity of purpose, pure and disinterested patriotism, and a rare combination of justice and humanity, made him honored, beloved and revered, and whose career as a Magistrate of a free people will render him illustrious, wherever free institutions and universal emancipation shall exist, through all ages. Resolved, That the act by which ABRAHAM LINCOLN has been stricken down in the midst of his usefulness, is one which, for fiendish atrocity, is without a parallel in the annals of history, and which stamps its author, its instigators, and all who approve the crime or shelter the criminal, as deserving the detestation and abhorrence of all mankind to the latest generations. Resolved, That a like abhorrence and execration must pursue the wretch who aimed the assassin's dagger at the heart of William H. Seward, as he lay helpless upon a bed of suffering, and who only desisted from his dastardly attack when he supposed that his diabolical purpose had been accomplished. Resolved, That this board recognize in these acts of stupendous and unprecedented malignity only the legitimate manifestations of that spirit of hostility to all law, human or divine, which originally prompted and has since continued to sustain the nefarious attempt upon the life of the nation which, for four years, has made our once happy land a scene of such horrors as the world has never before witnessed. Resolved, That a cause identified in its inception, by the avowals of its own supporters, with the perpetuation of the cruelest form of human bondage; which has employed in its support practices so shocking to humanity and so abhorrent to every precept of religion as to partake rather of the ferocity of wild beasts and savages than of the spirit of an enlightened Christian civilization-practices such as the deliberate starvation of prisoners of war, the brutal massacre of prostrate garrisons, the sacrilegious desecration of the remains of the dead, the persecution, torture, and murder of unhappy recusants, and the inhuman hunting down with bloodhounds of miserable refugees; and which finally sends into the heart of our populous towns, and into our national capital, the midnight incendiary with his torch and the dastardly assassin with his knife, is one which cannot much longer continue to receive the countenance or encouragement of any people which calls itself Christian, but must compel all good men and all good governments everywhere to make common cause against its maintainers and abettors as common scourges of mankind and enemies of the human race. Resolved, That this board tenders its most respectful sympathy and condolence to the bereaved family of the lamented Chief Magistrate, assuring them that the terrible calamity which has deprived them of their natural protector and support has only the more endeared them to the hearts of the American people, and has entitled them to receive, and made it sure that they shall receive, every tender care and every generous provision in the power of a great and magnanimous nation to afford to soften to them the bitterness of their affliction. Resolved, That this body extend also a sympathy equally sincere to the suffering Secretary of State, preserved, as by a miracle, from death at the assassin's hand, and to his family, outraged by this demoniac violence, and soon possibly to be shrouded in mourning for the loss of one of its cherished members fallen a victim to his filial devotion, and earnestly trusts and prays that God in his mercy may soon restore to renewed strength and usefulness this tried and faithful public servant, that he may continue long in the future, as he has done in the past, by his sagacity and wisdom, to guide our ship of state safely among the perils to which, in the present trying time, the complications of diplomacy are continually exposing it. Resolved, That the fiendish ferocity which has marked the conduct of the people of the insurgent States throughout the progress of this nefarious attempt to subvert the foundations of the government and to extinguish popular liberty upon the American continent is, in the opinion of this board, but the natural and necessary fruit of that half-barbarous social system which boasts as its distinguishing feature and chief corner-stone the hopeless enslavement of a weak and helpless race of human beings; and that, if upon this subject any difference of opinion among loyal men has heretofore existed, this crowning act of deliberate, premeditated, malignant atrocity must, from this hour henceforth, unite all sensible men, all good citizens, all honest patriots, and all sincere Christians, in the fixed and unalterable determination to wash out and exterminate from the land every trace of an institution which, after so long disgracing our civilization and brutalizing large communities of our people, has at length generated crimes at which the whole world must stand amazed, and whose frightful enormity will make them forever fearfully and unapproachably preeminent in the annals of human wickedness. HAMILTON FISH, HONORED SIR: The following resolution was unanimously adopted by the New York Annual Conference of Ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at its session in the city of New York, commencing April 19, 1865, and ordered to be engrossed, and a copy forwarded to your excellency. Your obedient servant, THOS. W. CHADWICK, Secretary. His Excellency WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. Resolved, That we render to our highly respected and able Secretary of State, Hon. W. H. Seward, and to the members of his family suffering with him under the murderous blows of the assassin, our deep sympathy in their sufferings, and our earnest prayers that the Power which so far held the hand of the conspirator that life was saved, may be pleased to raise them to health again; and that the trained mind which has so wisely guided our foreign relations may be permitted still to offer its well-considered counsels to the President of the United States. MISSION ROOMS OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, At a special meeting of the board of managers of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held this day, D. L. Ross, esq., vice-president, in the chair, the committee (E. L. Fancher, esq., and Hon. M. F. Odell) on the death of President LINCOLN presented the following peamble and resolutions, which, on motion, were unanimously adopted: The board of managers of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, reverently acknowledging the ruling providence of Almighty God in all the affairs of men, yet bowed with grief at the recent horrible crimes which have struck at the heart of the nation, and by which assassins have conspired for the overthrow of our government, resulting in the murder of our much loved and honored Chief Magistrate, have convened in solemn and special session to express their sincere emotions and declare their sentiments touching the recent tragedy that has filled this land with sorrow and mourning. The board, therefore, resolve 1st. That the assassination of President LINCOLN and the wicked conspiracies which have evolved a murder so atrocious, and sought to paralyze our government by the massacre of its chief officials, deserve the lasting execration of the civilized world, and they increase our abhorrence of the spirit of rebellion which inspired the guilty instigators of such barbarous crimes. 2d. That the board record their profound admiration of the character and their high appreciation of the patriotic services of the late lamented President of the United States, as also their gratitude to God for the gift to our country of such a Chief Magistrate during the unparalleled and eventful era of his administration. 3d. That a rich legacy has been left to this age and to posterity in the example of ABRAHAM LINCOLN; and while the present and coming generations will admire that simplicity of nature, and those peculiar characteristics which fitted him to adorn the highest position in the gift of a great and free people, the Christian, the patriot, and philanthropist will delight to review his career, wherein he was enabled, under the guidance and blessing of Almighty God, to enfranchise the oppressed bondman of his country, and to conduct the government through the perils of civil war to final victory and security. 4th. That the board are grateful to God for his great mercy in sparing the valuable life of the honored Secretary of State of the United States, when assailed on his sick-bed by an armed assassin, and they pray that his wise statesmanship may be continued for the advantage and defence of our national rights. 5th. That at this critical, yet hopeful, juncture of affairs the board are glad to believe the mantle of our late illustrious Chief Magistrate has fallen upon a |