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

Sternenleistes Society of Menzingen

[Translation.]

Menzingen, May 7, 1865.

To the Editor of the Bund, in Berne:

Sir: I have the honor to enclose you fifty-seven signatures of the members of the Sternenleistes to the address of sympathy and condolence to our sister republic of America. You will please forward the document to the legation of the United States.

• T. KONRAD, Jr.,
  Cloth Painter and Actuary of the Sternenleistes.
• G. WEBER VOGEL.
• ED. AMSLER, Druggist.
• I. IRMIGER.
• M. SOGT.
• W. BERGES.
• JOSEPH MERZ, Canemaker.
• A. IRMIGER.
• GABRIEL WIRZ, Machinist.
• GOTTLIEB WEBER.
• F. HUNZECKER.
• RUDOLF WEBER.
  And forty-six other names.