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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 105 (search)
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96.-address to President Lincoln
By the citizens of Manchester, England.
To Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States:
As citizens of Manchester, assembled at the Free-Trade Hall, we beg to express our fraternal sentiments toward you and your country.
We rejoice in your greatness as an outgrowth of England, whose blood and language you share, whose orderly and legal freedom you have applied to new circumstances, over a region immeasurably greater than our own. We honorManchester, assembled at the Free-Trade Hall, we beg to express our fraternal sentiments toward you and your country.
We rejoice in your greatness as an outgrowth of England, whose blood and language you share, whose orderly and legal freedom you have applied to new circumstances, over a region immeasurably greater than our own. We honor your Free States, as a singularly happy abode for the working millions where industry is honored.
One thing alone has, in the past, lessened our sympathy with your country and our confidence in it — we mean the ascendency of politicians who not merely maintained negro slavery, but desired to extend and root it more firmly.
Since we have discerned, however, that the victory of the free North, in the war which has so sorely distressed us as well as afflicted you, will strike off the fetters of
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 129 (search)
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119.-President Lincoln's letter to the citizens of Manchester, England.
see Doc. 96, page 344 ante.
Manchester, February 10, Manchester, February 10, 1863.
The following letter and inclosure were received yesterday by the Mayor of Manchester, Abel Heywood, Esq.:
Legation of the UnitManchester, Abel Heywood, Esq.:
Legation of the United States, London, February 9, 1863.
sir: I have the honor to transmit to you, by the hands of Mr. Moran, the Assistant Secretary of this L ddressed to you as chairman of the meeting of workingmen, held at Manchester, on the thirty-first of December, and in acknowledgment of the ad ant, Charles Francis Adams. Abel Heywood, Esq., Chairman, etc., Manchester.
Executive mansion, Washington, January 19, 1863. To the Workingmen of Manchester:
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the address and resolutions which you sent me on the eve of the new year. know, and deeply deplore, the sufferings which the workingmen at Manchester, and in all Europe, are called to endure in this crisis.
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