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

Jean Jenk and R. Muller

[Translation.]

Bienne, May 21, 1865.

Sir: Deign to accept the most profound condolence for the cruel death of the man most dear to all republican hearts, from a true Swiss republican, whose son fought against the southern rebels as chief of a company of light artillery, in the first Virginia regiment.

The delay of this expression of sympathy from me is owing to my removal from Morat to this place. When I left Morat the address had not been circulated there, and when I got here it had been sent to Berne.

Yet I hope it is not too late to join a friend in sending congratulations to our friends beyond the sea, with wishes for their prosperity and that of their new noble representative.

Accept our sympathy and our most sincere wishes for the future prosperity of the Union.

Respectfully,

JEAN JENK,

Senior,
at Bonjean, near Bienne.

I take pleasure in joining in the above condolence and good wishes.

R. MÜLLER,

Brother of a surgeon in the army of the Union.

His Excellency the Minister Resident
of the United States of America in Switzerland.