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

Government of the Canton of Soleure

[Translation.]

Berne, May 1, 1865.

By the authority of the government counsellor of Solothurn, I hereby sign the enclosed address of sympathy and condolence to the President of the United States of North America, in the name of the canton of Solothurn. (Soleure.)

For the Swiss Union Chancery:

SOHIESS,

Chancellor of the Confederation.

{Bundes-kanzlei Schweizeirsche Eidgenossenschaft.}