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

Commercial and Manufacturing Association of Berne

[Translation.]

Berne, May 5, 1865.

To the Editor of the Bund, in Berne:

Sir: We have the honor to inform you that the local section of the Commercial and Manufacturing Association in Berne has unanimously resolved to join you in the general address of sympathy and condolence to the American Union.

We hereby transmit a list of the signatures of our numbers, (88 in number,) and remain your obedient servants.

In the name of the committee:

• C. WILHELMUS GRAFFENRIED, President.
• ALBERT YERSIN, Secretary.

(Then come the 88 names of the members.)