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

Government of the Canton of Unterwalden Lower

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Stanz, May 4, 1865.

Council of Lower Unterwalden to the honorable Bundesrath, in Berne.

Gentlemen: Following the example of the Union Council and the governments of several cantons, allow us to express our deepest sympathy for the American Union. It is a great honor for the Swiss people, at a time when great grief has overwhelmed the sister republic of America, not to remain dumb, but to speak out their sympathy for the cause of social freedom.

We therefore enclose our address of sympathy, and beg you will send it, with the others, to its proper destination.

We recommend you to protecting Providence.

• LWYRSOH, President.
• A. WAGNER, Secretary.