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

Men’s Gymnastic Union

Bern, May 6, 1865

[Translation]

The Menner Turnverein (Men’s Gymnastic Union) of the city of Berne.

Resolved, at a meeting on the 5th of May, 1865, to approve of the address of sympathy and condolence to the United States of America, on account of the suppression of the rebellion and assassination of President Lincoln, in the name of all their members, forty-four in number.

For the Turnverein:

• GO. STRELIN, President.
• A. FRANTOCHI, Secretary.