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

Singing Society of Langnau

[Translation.]

Langnau, May 7, 1865.

The Männerchor of Langnau to the editor of the Bund.

Sir: The above named society, composed of five-and-twenty members, have this day resolved to unite in the address of sympathy and condolence to the North American Union.

In the name of the society:

FRITZ. HOFER,

President.

SCHAFFER,

Secretary.