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 and Choral Union of Bremgarten

[Translation.]

Bremgarten, (near Berne,) June 9, 1865.

The common council and Choral Union of Bremgarten declare that they cordially join in the Swiss address of sympathy to the American Union, which originated in Berne.

We hereby most sincerely wish the greatest prosperity to the American Union in its restoration after great victories, and express our most cordial sympathy for its bereavement by the death of its excellent President Lincoln.

(Twelve members of the council, and fourteenth members of the Choral Union.)

The star-spangled banner,

O long may it wave

O’er the land of the free

And the home of the brave!

• SCHELLENBERG GONDRATH,
  President of the Council.
• FRIEDRICH AESCHER,
  Secretary.

In the name of the Choral Union:

• FRIEDRICH AESCHER,
  Director.
• JOHANNES WUETHRICHT,
  Secretary.