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

Inhabitants of Fribourg

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Fribourg, May 24, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to transmit you the following documents:

1. An address, voted by a popular assembly at Fribourg, on Saturday, the 13th of May, with 411 signatures.

2. A supplementary address, signed by 106 citizens of Gruyere,^* most of them from the industrious and liberal little city of Bulle.

3. A second declaration of assent to the address voted by the Democratic Circle of the city of Estavayer,^† with 39 signatures, 556 signatures in all, which the people of Fribourg beg you to accept and transmit to your American countrymen, as a token of friendship, republican confraternity and very sincere sympathy.

Receive the assurance of our very distinguished consideration.

AUG. MAJEUX.

Mr. G. G. Fogg,
Minister Resident of the United States, at Berne.

1. For this enclosure see Gruyere.
2. For this enclosure see Estavayer.