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

Democratic Circle of Estavayer

Estavayer, May 14, 1865

[Translation.]

The Democratic Circle of Estavayer, animated by similar sentiments to those announced at the Fribourg popular meeting of the 14th of May instant, and anxious to show their brothers beyond the sea their sympathy for the victories over the South, thus restoring peace to the American Union by the triumph of the liberal cause, and also to express their indignation and sorrow at the ruthless and savage act of the monster Booth, who deprived them of the most worthy and pure of republicans, their illustrious President Lincoln, declare that they approve of the resolution passed at the public meeting at Fribourg, and join in the address to the republicans of the United States.

• A. MOURET, Attorney at Law.
• JOSEPH BRUNO VOLLERY.
• A. BUCHS PROUVREUX.
• NICHOLAS SANSONNENS.
• P. N. COLLAND.
• ANTOINE MARMY.
• JAQUES SANSONNENS, Teacher.
• C. A. L. DAFFLON.
  And thirty-one other names.