Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the Second Session of the Fortieth Congress

Mr. Seward to Mr. Well

No. 213.]

Department of State, Washington, July 18, 1867.

Sir: I enclose to your address by this mail the resolution of the United States Congress in reply to the resolution of the Brazilian chambers of senators and deputies on the death of Abraham Lincoln.

You will be pleased to deliver it to the minister for foreign affairs with the request to give it the proper direction.

I am, sir, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

James Watson Webb, Esq., &c., &c., &c.

A RESOLUTION thanking the chambers of senators and deputies of Brazil for their resolutions of sorrow and sympathy on the death of President Lincoln.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Congress of the United States has received with respect and gratitude the resolutions of sorrow and sympathy which the chambers of senators and deputies of Brazil have adopted on the death of President Lincoln, and hereby tenders to those chambers the thanks of the people of the United States.

Sec. 2. And be it further resolved, That it shall be the duty of the President of the United States to forward a copy of this resolution to the Emperor of Brazil, with a request that it be communicated to the two chambers.

Approved, March 2, 1867.