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

Spanish Senate

[Translation.]

President of the Council of Ministers, Senate Chamber:

The Senate in session this day has unanimously resolved that it sympathizes with the United States in the profound grief caused by the death of its worthy President, Abraham Lincoln.

God grant you many years. Palace of the Senate, May 3, 1865.

JUAN DE SEVILLA,

Secretary of the Senate.

Hilarion del Rey,
Secretary of the Senate, President of the Council of Ministers. A signed copy:

M. BANUELOS.