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

Grutli Union of Travers

[Translation.]

Travers, May 15, 1865.

Gentlemen: The Neuenburg, Boudry, Travers, Couvet, Fleurier, and Chaux-de-Fond sections of the Swiss Grutli Union, in their meetings of yesterday, unanimously resolved to approve of the address of sympathy and condolence to the American Union.

The undersigned, as secretary, has the honor to enclose you the resolution, and subscribe himself your obedient servant,

J. STEFFEN,

Secretary.

The Bundesrath, in Berne.