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

Radical Electors of Chaux-de-Fond

[Translation.]

Chaux de Fond, Switzerland, May 7, 1865.

The radical electors of Chaux de Fonds, republic and canton of Neufchatel, in Switzerland, assembled this day, to the number of two thousand, for the purpose of exercising their civil rights, and adopted unanimously the following address to the government of the United States:

The news of the triumph of the northern cause has filled the hearts of all the radicals of Neufchatel with joy, and has delighted their brothers of all the Swiss cantons. Yours is the cause of true republicans in every country. Like you, the Swiss radicals desire the emancipation of all men; the triumph of the cause of progress, with its happy consequences; the reign of order.

That abominable crime, the murder of President Lincoln, has received no greater reprobation in any part of the world than with us. We will ever keep his illustrious name in our memories; but we comfort ourselves with the thought that the cause of the North did not die with one of its best citizens, but will live to triumph in the hands of his successor and his able generals.

It was also voted to have this resolution sent to the United States minister at Berne.

This is a certified copy: [seal.]
President of the Radical Committee.

A. RIBAUX,

Justice of the Peace.