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

Justus Schaller, Director of the Berne Railroad

[Translation.]

Berne, May 5, 1865.

To the Editor of the Bund:

Honored Sir: As an opponent to the old and new Sonderbund, I respectfully request you to add my name to the address of sympathy and condolence of the Swiss people to the government and people of the North American Union.

JUSTUS SCHALLER.