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

Chamber of Deputies of Spain

[Translation.]

President of the Council of Ministers, Chamber of Deputies:

The House of Deputies in session yesterday unanimously resolved, that it sympathizes with the United States in the profound grief caused by the death of its worthy President, Abraham Lincoln.

This we communicate to you for the information of her Majesty’s government and subsequent action.

God grant you many years. Palace of Congress, May 2, 1865.

RAFAEL CHACON, D. S.

Count of Campomanes, D. S.,
President of the Council of Ministers.

This copy has a rubric.

M. BANUELOS.