The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-03-01
NO. eee,
4 Noble Recommendations Of Hall.
fax to President Lincoln.

A Noble BoeHment---CltIzens Of Hall.
fax to President Lincoln.
A correspondent in Halifax transmits
to Us the following copy Of q memorial
which IS stated to have been forwarded
I to the Secretary Of State to be present
ed the President, and which has been
signed by one hundred and fifty lead
ing citizens and others Of Halifax, Nova
/ Scotia
TO his EXcELLENCT ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES or
AMERICA:
To Memorial Of tie Undersigned, CSti-sns.
Working Men, ard Others inhabitants Of
HaEfar, Nova !Sostia, and neigAb0rhood,
sks1Cctk-
That your memorialists, feeling them
selves allied in race, language, htera-
I ture, commerce, and civilization, as well
as in geographical proximity, 70 the
great American nation, over whose
destlnies n gracious Providence has
called yoH topreside, regard themselves
as vitality interested in the issue Of the
existing great conflict in your country,
as one involving the extension or er-
fraction Of human and political freedom
throughout the whole Of the American
nation.
Your memorialists have always deep
~ regretted the existence Of Slavery in
the United States, as the one foul blot
on your country and Constitution; and
therefore they feel deeply thankful to
an all-wise Providence for the large
measure Of success which has attended
the United States forces in suppressing
the shareholders rebellion, and for the
gigantic strides which have recently
been made by your Government aad
people towards total abolition Of Sla-
very.
Your memorialists rejoice in the adj
vent to power of the great Republican
party, through whose anti-slavery poli-
cy these great and beneficial changes
have been inaueurated and they are
fully convinced that the sympathies Of
all real lovers Of liberty and humanity.
whether in Great Britain or in the
British Colonies, are due 10 that noble
struggle on your part 20 maintain intact
the Union. while determinedlv resist
ing the infamous and insidious en-
crOachments of the slaveholding fac
ton in the rebel States.
Your meuOrialists desire earnestly to
repudiate all sympathy with the treas
enable attempt Of the shareholders 10
rend their country into two opposing
sections, with the avOwed aim and OBJ
iect of holding in perpetual and hope
less bondage many millions Of human
beings While fervently dies ring the
speedy termination of the vast and IN
precedented civil war which is desolat-
ing so large a portion Of your country.
your memorialists believe that the most
effectual and practical way Of attaining
so desirable an end is BY withholding
all aid and sympathy from the rebels Of
the South, the authors Of ali these dire
ealamities, and lending all possible
moral influence, and strengthening in
every possible way the Executive Gcv-
eminent at Washington, to whose pro
per province belongs the suppression Of
the rebellion and the restoration Of
peace and order 70 your distracted land b.
Your memorialists therefore rejoice
that Her Majestys Government IN
Britain have recently taken very de-
cisive measures TO prevent the further
issue from the shores Of that country
of steam rams, and other vessels for
the rebel COnfederates; which vessels
would be used attacking the commerce
of the great American nation with
which Great Britain Is, and 1--WE sin
eerely believe) desires 70 remain, at
peace.
Fervently as your memOrialists de-
sire that peace may return 10 your
country, they trust il may be that peace
which may come 10 remain with you
and therefore they hope that mo mat
ter how protracted the struggled under
no conceivable circumstances will any
be effected between the
contending parties which does not en-
brace or provide for the total abolition
of Slavery. as well a. the maintenance
in al its geographical boundaries the
integrity Of the Great American Union.
In conclusion, your memorialists wish
to convey 20 your Excellency their
deep sense Of the zeal, integrity, hu-
mainly, and thorough good faith with
which you discharge those very onerous
and important duties devolying upon
you, not only as the Chief Magistrate Of
the United States Of America, but also
az Chief Of the United
States Army and Navy; and your me-
moralsts pray that your Excellency
may be spared and strengthened for
still further efforts in the cause Of free
dom and humanity, as against slavery
and rebellion, until the last Vestiges Of
that inhuman and injurious system DO
forever swept away from American soil,
and until the United States flag shall
again wave triumphantly over . free
people in every State and Territory in
your highly favored land WasAington
Republican.