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Address of the International Working Men's Association to Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America
Marx, Karl
http://www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htmhttp://www.marxists.org/history/international/iwma/documents/1864/lincoln-letter.htm Date Written: 1865-01-28 Publisher: The Bee-Hive Newspaper Year Published: 1865 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX11013 The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world. Subject Headings |