Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session Thirty-eighth Congress, Part IV, Appendix to diplomatic correspondence of 1865; the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, late president of the United States of America, and the attempted assassination of William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, Assistant Secretary, on the evening of the 14th of April, 1865; expressions of condolence and sympathy inspired by these events

Municipal Council of Carelmapu

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Municipality of the Department of Carelmapu, Calbuco, June 22, 1865.

Sir: This corporation feeling the most lively and profound pain for the grief which you have been caused by the catastrophe which has befallen one of those prominent men, the immortal President Lincoln, who has rendered services so important to the country of the free, the republic of the United States of America, has the honor to address itself to your excellency, accompanying you in your just sorrow for so immeasurable a misfortune.

But this corporation feels that it would be a consolation to your excellency in this irreparable loss, so justly wept over by every republican country, that he should have won the glory of preserving intact and unsullied the rights of his country, the natural consequence of which will be, as your excellency cannot doubt, the enjoyment by that magnanimous people of a perpetual peace.

Be pleased, your excellency, with the protest of our most earnest sincerity and sympathy, to accept the condolence of this corporation.

We remain, very respectfully, your excellency’s most obedient servants,

• R. N. NUNEZ VILLALON.
• FERNANDO ANDRADE.
• GREGNIO GONSALEZ.
• FRAN’CO S. NAVARRO.
• JUAN MA. PEREZ.
• CARPTANO ALVARADO.
• SANTIAGO MARTINEZ.
• J. MA. BUSTAMANTE.
• NICOLAS BARRIENTOS,
  Secretary.

Thomas H. Nelson, Esq.,
Minister of the United States.