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

Factorymen’s Association of Schwanden

[Translation.]

Schwanden, May 6, 1865.

The Bund:

Sir: We are not men of many words, but our feelings are not the less deep, and we now wish to express them, through you, to the American people, as a free people and our fellow-laborers in freedom.

In the name of the Factorymen of the Schwanden Verein:

C. ZEHN,

Chairman.