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

Dr. Carl Hilton

[Translation.]

Chur, May 24, 1865.

The undersigned most cordially approves of the Swiss address of sympathy to the United States, and requests to contribute his signature to its columns of subscribers in our native land.

Dr. CARL HILTON,

Lawyer in Chur.