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

Teachers of the District of Fraubrunn

Fraubrunn, undated

[Translation.]

The district synod of teachers in the civil district of Fraubrunn, canton of Berne, to the American legation in Berne.

The synod of teachers in the civil district of Fraubrunn hereby unanimously declare its full approval of and solemn adhesion to the address of sympathy from the honorable union council of Switzerland to the government of the American Union for the glorious preservation of its integrity, and offers its sincere sympathy for the decease of President Abraham Lincoln, and horror at the misdeed that deprived him of existence.

Accept this act as a sincere, though feeble, demonstration of its good wishes for the prosperity of our glorious sister republic of America.

With devotion and esteem,

• K. LAUENBERGER,
  President.
• ULRICH CHRISTENEN,
  Secretary.