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 Aix-la-Chapelle

[Translation.]

Aix-La-Chapelle, May 5, 1865.

The undersigned, mayor and members of the municipality of the city of Aix-la-Chapelle, allow themselves to express to you, much honored Mr. consul, representative of the United States for the Rhenish provinces and Westphalia, their sympathy for the great and irretrievable loss which your country has suffered by the atrocious murder of your highly gifted and noble President Lincoln.

The horrible and abominable crime which deprived a country of its chief, in the very moment when his presence was most needed to heal the wounds, and secure the results of a war of several years, in defence of the noblest cause, has filled all Europe, and especially Germany, with abhorrence and dismay. We are more especially penetrated with these sentiments as our city has been in relations, for so many years, with your native land, and has the satisfaction of being the seat of the consulate for the Rhenish provinces and Westphalia.

We beg you, honored sir, as the worthy incumbent of the consulate, to bring the present resolutions to the knowledge of the government of your country, and to accept the assurance of our highest esteem.

C. E. DAMEN.	RUMPEN.
E. VAN GULPEN.	FR’D NACKEN.
F. ERASMUS.	COMEL VAN GUAILA.
ED. KEPELKAUL.	SOMMER.
COUTZEN	TH. ESSER.
N. BOCKLEN.	D. RODERBURG.
COUNT NELLESSEN.	D. HAHM.
VRANAUX.	V. MENHEIM.
VON PRAUGBE.	HOYER.
D. MULLER.	FRED. CAYIN.
W. ZURRBELLE.	JUNGBLUTH.
A SLARTZ.

M. Vesey, Consul of the United States
for the Rhenish Provinces and Westphalia.