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 Langenthal

Langenthal, undated

[Translation.]

Expression of approval.

The undersigned, citizens of the Swiss Confederation, unite in the Berne address to the President of the North American Union with all their hearts, and approve of it in every particular.

GEISEN STAP,

of Langenthal.

F. H. HÜDI.

JOHANNES PFISTER.

J. GUT.

THEOD GEISER.

Lieutenant

A. MARTI.

FRIED WITSCH.

F. KRONAUER.

And several others.