Papers Relating to Foreign Affairs, Accompanying the Annual Message of the President to the First Session Thirty-ninth Congress

Mr. Hunter to Sir F. Bruce

Department of State, Washington, May 3, 1865.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 1st instant, which is accompanied by a copy of resolutions of the St. George’s Benevolent Society of Cincinnati, expressive of their indignation of the diabolical act which deprived this government of its head, and of their sympathy with the people of the United States in this their national loss; also, a copy of resolutions adopted by the members of the St. George’s Society of Madison, Wisconsin, which, in compliance with your request, will be communicated to the Hon. Mrs. Lincoln.

On behalf of the government and people of the United States, I will thank you to convey to the aforenamed societies an expression of their grateful sense of the sympathy and good feeling manifested in their resolutions.

I have the honor to be, with high consideration, sir, your obedient servant,

W. HUNTER, Acting Secretary.

Hon. Sir Frederick W. A. Bruce, &c., &c., &c.