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

Chamber of Deputies to Count d’Avila

[Translation.]

Bureau of the Secretary of the Chamber of Deputies,
Palace of the Cortes, May 13, 1865.

Most Excellent Sir: I have the honor of transmitting to your excellency, for your information, the enclosed copy of the motion presented in this Chamber by one of its members, and voted unanimously, on the occasion of communicating to the house the note from the legation of the United States of America at this court, in reply to the manifestation of feeling and regret addressed to said legation on the atrocious assassination of the President of that republic.

May God preserve your excellency!

JOAQUIM XAVIER PINTO DA SILVA,

Deputy and Secretary.

His Excellency the Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

True copy: EMILIO ACHILLES MONTEVERDE.

Department of State for Foreign Affairs, May 16, 1865.

I move that it be recorded in the minutes that the Chamber has heard, with every demonstration of true respect and profound sympathy, the note which has just been read at the table, and addressed to the house by the minister resident of the United States of America at this court.

I further move that the government be informed of this deliberation, in order to communicate the same to the distinguished minister.

JACINTHO AUGUSTO DE SANT’ANNA E VASCONCELLOS.

Correct copy:

POSSIDONIO A. P. PICALUGA.

Bureau of the Secretary of the Chamber of Deputies,
May 13, 1865.
True copy:

EMILIO ACHILLES MONTEVERDE.

Department of State for Foreign Affairs, May 16, 1865.