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 Schaffhausen

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Schaffhausen, May 3, 1865.

President and Council of Schaffhausen to the Bundesrath, in Berne.

We have the honor to enclose you a letter of condolence, which we respectfully request you to forward to Mr. G. Fogg, minister resident of the United States of North America, as an expression of our sorrow for the terrible and sanguinary deed perpetrated upon Mr. Lincoln, President of the United States.

We accept the occasion to commend you to the protection of the Almighty.

• ZACH. GIESEL TILLE, President.
• Dr. WANNER, Clerk.