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 Chaux-de-Fond

[Translation.]

Chaux de Fond, May 4, 1865.

The undersigned give their most perfect adhesion to the address sent by the federal council of Switzerland to the government of the United States of America, both as regards the triumph of the northern cause and the memory of the eminent and lamented President Lincoln.

A. RIBAUX.	LEON INREY.
PAUL VUILLE.	JULES LAMBERCIER.
E. ROUILEN.	JULES DUBOIS.
ALEXANDRE HESS.	J. A. WILEIMRIER.
H. F. GERRIT.	AUG. BARBEY.
ARNOLD NICOND.	L. C. DELLENBACH.
EDOUARD ROBERT.	PAUL CALAME.
DUBOIS CALAME.	T’S ARMAND TISSOT.
ALB. DUCOMMUN.	LUCIEN HUMBERT.
ED. BEGUELIN.	ENG. JUNOD.
ROBERT BORNAND.	NUMA DIOZ.
GUSTAVE LUPOLD.	H’RI GRANJEAN PERRENON.
ULYSSE PERRETT.	ZINGO BERTON.
LOUIS BORNET.

And about 2,400 names from Chaux de Fond.