A Letter to the President

In 1863, during the American Civil War, workers in Manchester’s cotton industry sent a letter of support to US President Abraham Lincoln. England’s natural ties with America, they said, had been strained by slavery, but even if the war temporarily depressed the cotton trade, Americans could count on their wholehearted commitment to the liberal principles of their Founding Fathers.

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