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

Government of the Canton of Vaud

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Lausanne, May 6, 1865.

Sir: In reply to your circular of the 1st instant, we are instructed to inform you that the grand council of this canton, on the proposal of the state council, had voted an address to the Congress of the United States of North America, to express the sentiments of profound regret it feels at the news of the assassination of the President of the United States, and at the same time to give to the Congress and people of the United States a public pledge of sympathy for the cause of liberty, defended with so much patriotism, courage, perseverance and moderation by the noble victim whose loss we now deplore.

Accept the assurance of our distinguished consideration.

In the name of the chancery of the state and canton of Vaud:

The Chancellor,

CAREY.

Mr. F. Gengel,
President of the Committee for the address to the government of the United States, at Bern.