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

Mutual Aid Society of Neuveville

[Translation.]

Neuveville, May 6, 1865.

Concurrence of the Mutual Aid Society of Neuveville, canton of Berne, in the address of sympathy and condolence to the American Union by the Swiss people.

Sir: The Mutual Aid Society met to-day and decided to join in the spontaneous manifestation of the Swiss people, and thank the citizens who proposed it.

It also requested its officers to sign the present resolution of concurrence and send it to its address, in the name of the society.

• H. TSCHIFFE, President.
• FRED IMER, Vice-President.
• SCHEM KARLEN, Cashier.
• E. CIBOLLET, Secretary.