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

Industrial Society of Sion

[Translation.]

Sion, May 7, 1865.

Committee of the Industrial Society of Sion to the Editor of the Bund, in Berne.

The Industrial Society of Sion, by order of the committee, at a regular meeting this day, unanimously resolved to adhere to the address of sympathy and condolence to the sister republic of the United States. Our society, numbering ninety-four members, makes it a pleasant duty to congratulate the people, as well as the supreme government of the United States, on their glorious victories over the South, which put an end to the abominable curse of slavery; and at the same time we express our deepest condolence for the murder of the noble citizen, President Lincoln, so ruthlessly and unexpectedly struck down by the monster Booth at a time when the nation was on the point of great rejoicing.

N. B.—The editor of the Bund will have the kindness to have this conveyed to its proper address.

In the name of the society:

JOSHUA ALBRECHT,

President.