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

Representatives from all the District of Berne

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Declaration of adhesion to the addresses of sympathy and condolence to the United States.

Representatives and delegates from all the districts of the Bernese Jura, namely: Porrentrui, Bienne, Courtelari, Delemont, Franches-Montagnes, Lauffen, Moutier and Neuveville, to the number of two hundred and fifty, (250,) held a public meeting at Tavannes, on the 14th of May, 1865, and adopted the following resolutions unanimously and by acclamation:

• 1st. We cordially join in the addresses of congratulation to the United States, on account of their recent victories over secession.
• 2d. We sincerely sympathize with them in their sorrows for the loss of their worthy President, Abraham Lincoln, the victim of a most atrocious crime.

We cherish the ardent hope that the universal tokens of sympathy now shown in both hemispheres for the great republic of the United States may tend to assauge the profound grief for the tragic and lamentable death of their most illustrious citizen.

In the name of the representatives of the districts of the Bernese Jura, assembled at Tavannes, May 14, 1865:

• S. JOLISSAINT, Lawyer, President.
• S. VOISIN, Mayor, Secretary.