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

Polish Refugees of Zurich

[Translation.]

Bendlikon, near Zurich,
May 2, 1865.

We, the emigrants from Poland, participate in the feeling of horror experienced by all nations at the death of Mr. Lincoln, President of the United States, who deserved well of humanity. Received with hospitality upon the soil of Switzerland, we join our voices with the Helvetians in expressions of condolence with the American people, and with their wishes that the country where Pulaski and Kosciusko fought with Washington may be strengthened in its independence and integrity by the absolute abolition of slavery, clemency towards the conquered, equality of all its inhabitants, and respect for the liberty of other nations.

Managers and printers of the “Polish paper called the Ojczyzna:

• AGATON GILLER, Responsible Editor.
• RADOMIRISK.
• ANTOINE SWIEREZEWSKI.
• JOSEPH KOSSOBRUZKI.
• THEODORE DZWIGATSKI.
• JOSEPH HARASIMOWIOZ.
• LEOPOLD BUCZON.
• JULIUSZ MILEWSKI.
• BOLESLAS KOWALEWSKI.
• HEINRICH KAPPE.
• HIPOLIT OBRYSKI.