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

Meyer and Sutterlin

[Translation.]

Sissach, May 8, 1865.

To the Editor of the Bund, in Berne:

In consideration of the news of late events in North America, and particularly of the deep sympathy we feel for its patriotic citizens, on account of the murder of their good President Lincoln, allow us to embrace a list of about 170 names, collected in this place and neighborhood, in approval of the general address of sympathy to the United States.

MEYER & SÜTTERLIN,

General Agents.