, 1865-01-10
The English Xrorktnemcn TO Mr. Linz
H0In.

The English Norktnsmen TO Mr. Lin
coin.
The following address from the working
men Of England 10 Mr.. Lincoln, congratulat-
ing him upon his reelection, appears in the
London Daily Nescs Of December Is. It has
been forwarded to Washington through Mr..
Adams:
*Te Abraham Lincoln. President Of the United
States Of America:
."SlR-We congratulate the American pco-
pie upon your reelection by laSse majority.
If resistance to the slave power was tie re-
served WRtchword Of your first election, the
triumphant Wnr-cIy Of your Reelection is
"Dca1h to Slavery" From the commence
ment Of the Titanic American strife the work
inglnen Of Europe felt instfuc;isely that the
Star-SpanEled banner carried the destiny Of
Their class The contest f1r the territories
which opened the dire ciloi,ee, was il not to
decide whether the virgin soil Of immense
tracts should be welded to the labor OF The
cInigrant or prostituted by the tramp Of the
hundred thousand SHAREHOLDERS dared to in-
scribe, for llc first time in tue annals Of the
world, Slavery on the banner of armed re-
vol, when on the Very spots where hardly
century ago the idea Of one great desaocrtic
5spu'];s p sst had ac3ap 5tst spruDg rP waenis ts
Of man WAS issued, and the first
impulse given to the EUROPEAN revolution
Of the eli rht ecnsh century; when on those
very spots counter revolution, with SYSTEM
attic thoroughnrss, gloried in resembling the
ideas enter1ai:,. at the time of the formation
Of the old constitution and maintained slave
~ to be a brniiicent institution, indeed the
only solution Of the great problem of the re-
latiun Of cApital to labor, tcynicaily pro-
clailned property in man tile cornerstone Of
the new cditcc; then the working classes Of
Europe understood at once, even before the
Hf n1n
the Confederate gentry had given its dismal
warning, that the shareholders rebellion was
TO sound the tocsin for general holy crusade
of property against labor, and that for the
mcn Of labor, with their hopes for the future,
cyen their past eonauests we're at stake ID
TINT trcmulous conflict on the other side Of
the Atlantic. Everywhere they bore, there
fore, patiently the hardships imposed upon
them By the cotton crisis, opposed euthusias-
ticallF The pro.e!avcry Intervention importu-
mites Of their betters,' and from most parts
Of Europe contributed tlaeir quota Of blood to
men, the true political power 6f
the North, allowed slavery to defile
their own republic, while before the negro,
mastered and sold without his concurrence,
they boastcd it tue highest prcrogatiTc Of the
whitt-tkinlsco labores to sell himself and
choose Lis own master, they were unable 10
attain the true freedom Of labor, or to support
their European brethren IN their struggle for
emancipation; but the barrier to progress
Aas BEEN swept off by the red sea Of civil war.
The workingmen Of Europe feel sure that rs
the American war Of ofiudependeocc initiated
new era Of asccn1cncy TOR tue middle class,
SO the American anti-slayery war will do for
the working classes. They consider It m
eaInes1oi the epoch to comc that it felt to the
lot OF Abraham Lincoln, the sinEle-Ininiled
son Of the working class, to lead Ills country
through the 1na;chlcss struggle for the rescue
If an cuchaincd race ant tiu reconstruction
Of social world.
"Signcd on behalf of the international
Working MEMS Association, the Members Of
the Central Counci1.''