The preponderating sentiment is sincere and genuine sympathy--- sorrow for the chief of a great people struck down by an assassin, and sympathy for that people in the trouble which at a crisis of their destinies such a catastrophe must bring.

Abraham Lincoln was as little of a tyrant as any man who ever lived.

He could have been a tyrant had he pleased, but he never uttered so much as an ill-natured speech....

In all America there was, perhaps, not one man who less deserved to be the victim of this revolution than he who has just fallen[1296]." The Ministry did not wait for public pressure.

Immediately on receipt of the news, motions were made, April 27, in both Lords and Commons for an address to the Queen, to be debated "Monday next," expressing "sorrow and indignation" at the assassination of Lincoln[1297].