Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-10-29
RugIish Working men TO the President
Reply OF Minister Adams.

city less than six years old.
Reply OF Minister Adams.
The sympathy of the English masses
with the Union cause is well expressed
in the following memoria', which is pub
Iished in the London Star o the 10Th:
To Els ErcsIlsHey Abraham Lincoln, Pres
ident Of the United States Of America:
The memorial Of the undersigned cid-
zens. workingmen, and inhabitants of the
city of Hereford, England, and its neigh
boIhood, convened at public meeting in
the Corn Exchange of the said city, on
Wednesday, and Thursday, the 10th and
18th of September, 1868, and others not
then present, showeth:
!. That your memorislists, feeling them
selves allied in race, Language, commercs
and civilization to the great nation over
whose destinies Providences has called
you to preside, have regarded with prize
and admiration it's marvellous growth 10
wealth, power and prosperity and being
assured that the yet unpeopled Territories
OF your great continent are destined, by
emigration from this aud other lands, TO
of the human race, regard themselves as
vitality interested in the issue of the present
conflict. as one involving the extension or
diminution of social and political freedom.
They feel it to be the interest Of universal
liberty that the United States should be
powerful, and would regard the establish
ment of necessarily two expensive Gov
ernments in place o. the one prevailing
before the war as misfortune to humani-
ty ct large. -.l .
2, That your memorialists have ever
deeply regretted the existence Of human
bonda2e in the United States as the one
foul blot on the American Constitution,
and having duly considered the origin and
growth Of the slaveholding faction, feel
deeply thankful TO an oVerruling Provi-
dence for the gigantic strides which have
recently been made toward abolition.
They rejoice in the advent TO power Of the
great Republican party, through whose
snti-Slsvery policy these great and bene-
fetal changes have been insugugurated
and are fully convinced that the sympa-
thIes of all real lovers OF liberty amongst
the British people are due to that party,
officially represented by yourself, in their
arduous struggle to maintain the Union
and Constitution, while resisting the in
siduous encroachments of the enemies of
human freedom.
3. That your memorialists, therefore,
desire earnestly to repudiate all sympa-
thy with the reasonable attempt Of a
/ small minority of Southern slsVehOlders
to Iend their country into two opposing
sections with The avowed aim Of main
tanning and extending the perpetual and
hopeless bondage many millions Of human
beings. Fervently desiring the speedy
termination Of the vast and unpreoedent-
ed civil war, which, while desolsting the
homes, and sacrificing the lives and proper
/ ty of millions Of American citizens, brings
distress and injury into many European
communities, they believe that the spsedi-
est method Of attaining so desirable an
eud is not by sympsthizing with the re-
belllious party in the South, the authors
of all these calamities, but by lending all
possible moral influence to and strength
ening in every possible way the Executive
Government, to whose proper province be-
longs the restoration of peace and order.
a. That your memorialists earnestly de-
preoste the attempts made by the emissa-
ries Of the so-called Southern Confederscy,
by the purchase Of armed vessels. to drag
this country into war with the Northern
States, being convinced that 80 fratricldsl
a conflict would be one of the most de-
structive on record-one permanently fats!
to the best interests OF both countries, and
a disgrace to our common humanity.
Your memorislists therefore, rejoice that
the English Government have recently
taken decisive measures to prevent the
further issue from our shores Of steam rams,
built for the purpose Of attacking the oOm-
merce Of nation with which we are and
desire TO remain at peace.
5. That fervently as your memOTislists
desire the return Of peace, they trust that
no compromise will be effected between
the contending parties which does not en-
brace or provide for the abolition Of negro
slavery, the institution Of the free labor
system in the South, and the maintenance
if possible, in all its integrity, of the great
American Union. ----
| . ME-. ADAMS RKPLY.
The following acknowledgment Of the
receipt Of the memorial has beon received
by Mr.. JONES' the honorary Secretary Of
the Hereford branch of the Union and
Emancipation Society:
DELEGATION OF THE United STATES,
LONDON, Oct s, 1868.
sR-I am directed by Mr. Adams to
inform you that he has received the memo
rial to Psesident Linaaln,s signed by two
hundred and seventy-four Of the citizens,
working men and inhabitants of the city
Of Heresfsrd, which you did him the honor
to forward to him on the 81 inst, and
that he will have much pleasure in trans
mitting it to Washington City by the
steamer Of next Saturday.
I have the honor to be. sir, your Obsdi-
ent servant s-l aa
BENJAMIN MORAN,
Assistant Secretary Of Legation.
JosEPH JONES, Jr., Esq. -.-.
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