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

Teachers of the District of Buren

[Translation.]

Büren, June 4, 1865.

Sir: We learn through the central state functionary here that you are authorized to receive the addresses of sympathy which societies and Swiss people desire to make to the government of the United States. We therefore send you the address of the teachers of Büren, that you may attend to the proper disposal of it.

With esteem,

J. PFISTER,

Assistant Teacher.

The Commander of the Hunter Corps of the Canton of Berne.