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 Unterwalden Upper

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Sarnen, May 4, 1865.

Council of Unterwalden to the Bundesrath, in Berne:

Gentlemen: Following in the worthy footsteps of many of our cantons, we feel ourselves obliged to express our deepest sympathy for the American Union on account of the recent horrid murder of its excellent President, Sir Abraham Lincoln. Though the consequences of this atrocious deed cannot be foreseen, we sincerely hope it may have no sinister effect either on the prosperity and peace of that country or of the foreign world.

You will please communicate this to the United States legation in Berne, and accept the assurance of our distinguished consideration.

• AL. MICHEL, President.
• W. S. GASSER, Secretary.