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

Swiss Residents of Bucharest

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To the Editors of the “Bund,” in Berne;

Your appeal to the Swiss people to perform an act of patriotism in presence of the great events that have just occurred in the United States has found a powerful echo among us.

We consider it our duty to add our signatures, with those of our fellow-citizens, to the two proposed addresses—one of congratulation for the victorious cause of the republic, the other of condolence on the occasion of the death of its worthy President Lincoln.

As the news reached us late, on account of our great distance, we sent a telegram ordering our signatures to be affixed in time.

I enclose the original of the despatch and signatures, which you will please annex to the national address.

Accept the expression of our perfect consideration.

HANS HERZAL.

Bucharest , May 11, 1865.

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[Copy of the original.]

We Swiss, residing in Bucharest, cordially approve of the two addresses contained in Nos. 115 and 116 of the Bund, and request the editors to annex, our signatures to them.

N. ZWTEFEL,	F. WIELAND,
I. H. ISELIN,	A. DUPERRESE.
F. F. SCHWEIZER,	R. DEVENOGE,
F. MATTHEY,	LS. CHARDON,
F. BRATSCHY,	C. GUBLER,
AUG. KÖLLA,	H. AESCHMANN,
M. SURBER.	LS. LEYVRAZ.
M. ISELIN,	A. VULLIET,
L. S. KELLER,	G. BAITER,
H. RUEGG,	H. HERZOG,
H. HINNEN,

Bucharest , May 10, 1865.