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 Appenzell Outer Rhodes

[Translation.]

Teuffen, May 5, 1865.

The magistrate and state committee of the canton of Appenzell, outer Rhodes, to Dr. John Wittenbach, Grand Counsellor, in Berne.

Sir: In answer to the circular enclosed to us by the central committee on the address of sympathy and condolence to the American Union, on account of the dreadful catastrophe that has just overtaken that once happy republic, by the loss of its worthy President, we say we are ready to approve it most heartily, with the rest of the cantons of this confederation. As the manifest contains the most sincere expression of our real sentiments, we cannot refrain from giving it our most cordial approval.

Be pleased to accept, honored sir, the expressions of our most distinguished considerations.

In the name of the Union committee,

The Chief Magistrate,

ROTH.

Secretary of the Council,

KOHL.