Manchester Mayor Abel Heywood- Address to be sent to President Abraham Lincoln
Free Trade Hall meeting December 31st 1862
"As the citizens of Manchester assembled at the Free Trade Hall we beg to express our fraternal sentiments to you and your country... We Honour you free states a particular happy abode for the working millions whose industry is honoured. One thing in the past has lessened our sympathy with you country and our confidence in it,we mean the ascendancy of politicians who not merely maintained negro slavery but desired to extend it and root it more firmly. Since we have discerned however the victory of the free states in the war which has so severely distressed us as well as afflicted you will strike off the fetters of the slave, you have attracted our warm and earnest sympathy. We joyfully honour you...for decisive steps towards exemplifying your belief in the words of you great founders 'all men are created free and equal"
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