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

Inhabitants of Brittnau

Brittnau, May 14, 1865

[Translation.]

Meeting of the inhabitants of Brittnau in church, Sunday afternoon, May 14, 1865.

The number of qualified voters over 20 years of age, 385.

On motion of Parson Bauman, seconded by other persons present, it was unanimously resolved to approve of the Swiss national address to the people of the United States of North America.

• 1st. In view of congratulations on the happy conclusion of the four years’ war, which has produced the greatest of blessings to the country, namely, the institution of the rights of man, the enjoyment of personal liberty and freedom’ without regard to the accidental differences of complexion, corporeal circumstances or descent, in opposition to the execrable evil of negro slavery in the southern States; and
• 2d. In consideration of the expression of condolence for the death of that most excellent man, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.

The above is a true copy of the original.

• MAT. WÄLCHLI, President.
• A. WALCHLI, Clerk.
• JACOB BRAK,
• J. ZIMMERLIK, Vote counters.