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

Workingmen’s Union of Einsiedeln

Einsiedeln, undated

[Translation.]

To the government and free people of the United States of North America.

The Swiss laborers and Working Men’s Union have hereby resolved to approve of the address of sympathy and devotion to the free people of the United States of North America, on account of their recent great victories and advantages, both in a political and social regard, and the undersigned citizens of Einsiedeln, in the canton of Schwyz, and the members of the Working Men’s Union of the same place, send their cordial congratulations for triumphs, and their heartfelt sorrows for the atrocious murder of the noblest and greatest citizen of the Union, President Abraham Lincoln.

God preserve the republic.

• CARL HENSLER,
  President of the Working Men’s Union.
• E. SCHADER,
  Vice-President.
  And ninety-seven names.