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

Congress of the Argentine Republic

Buenos Aires, June 2, 1865

[Translation.]

The senate and chamber of deputies of the Argentine nation, in general assembly convened, resolve:

• Article 1. The senators and deputies of the Argentine people shall wear mourning for Abraham Lincoln for three days after the adoption of this resolution.
• Art. 2. The national banner shall remain at half-mast over the house of sessions for the three days.
• Art. 3. The president of the Argentine congress shall address a letter of condolence, with a copy of this resolution, to the president of the Congress of the United States.
• Art. 4. Let this be promulgated, &c.

Given in the hall of congress, in Buenos Ayres, on the second day of June, the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.

• JOSÉ E. URIBURU.
• MARCOS PAZ.
• CARLOS MARIA SARAVIA,
  Secretary of the Senate.
• BERNABÉ QUINTANA,
  Secretary of the House of Deputies.

A true copy: [l. s.]

• BERNABÉ QUINTANA,
  Secretary of the House of Deputies.
• CARLOS MARIA SARAVIA,
  Secretary of the Senate.