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

Municipal Council of Salza Irpina.

Salza Irpina, undated

[Translation.]

The entire municipality of Salza Irpina, full of horror for the assassination consummated upon the person of the illustrious President, Abraham Lincoln, deliberated unanimously to express their sentiments of grief for that horrible event; also, of the sentiment of sympathy which this population feel for the people of America, and for the sacred cause courageously fought for by the martyrs who are now pitied by all Europe; and the municipality begs the mayor to send a copy of this act to the American consul at Naples.

• CAVALIERE MICHELE CAPOZZI, Mayor.
• FELICIANO PASQUALE, Assessor.
• CARMINE DE PAISOLE, Secretary.