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 Niederurnen

[Translation.]

We, the president and committee of the Workingmen’s Union of Niedemnen, in the canton of Glarus, to the supreme government and free people of the United States of North America, greeting:

We, in consonance with a great internal desire to express our heartfelt joy for the late victories of the free people of the United States of North America, unanimously approve of the address of sympathy and gratulation to be sent to them. We rejoice with them in their victories, in the triumph of the great cause for the benefits of humanity, and we lament with them the atrocious murder of their great and good citizen, Abraham Lincoln, at a time when peace was about to smile upon the great republic.

God grant that the free people of America may long enjoy the blessings of their victories and advantages of their triumphs; may He console the citizens of a free country for the loss of their noble champion of freedom and martyr of patriotism; and may His Almighty Hand direct the great nation in the ways of peace, prosperity, and happiness.

God preserve your country and ours.

Adopted at the general meeting on the 14th of May, 1865.

In the name of the Union:

• HEINRICH BEITENHOLZ, President.
• JOHANNES BOHRY, Actuary.
  Followed by signatures of eighty members.