Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article

To: mac_truck
So rather than a personal letter to Lincoln from Marx as you insinuate, it is an address from the International Workers Association (IWA)General Counsel to the American people, delivered through our London embassy.

The letter itself, which your excerpt shows to have been written by Marx, opens as follows:

"To Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America

Sir:
We congratulate the American people upon your re-election by a large majority."

In other words, the letter, which was written by Marx and signed onto by his commie club, went to Lincoln himself and not the general people as you claim.

It was indeed delivered to the American embassy as that was the means of transmitting it TO Lincoln at the time. The records further show that it was transmitted from the embassy to its intended recipient, Abe Lincoln, in January 1865. Charles Francis Adams, the ambassador at the time, sent a response to Marx and his commie club informing them that the letter to Lincoln "was duly transmitted through this Legation to the President of the United States, has been received by him."

1,316 posted on 07/06/2003 4:11:01 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1314 | View Replies ]


To: GOPcapitalist
Actually, the address to the American people from the International Workers Association General Counsel opens as follows.

Sir: We congratulate the American people upon your re-election by a large majority. If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery.

At least the IWA knew the fight was about slavery, not tariffs.

1,319 posted on 07/06/2003 4:39:12 PM PDT by mac_truck (You can never have too much cake.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1316 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Smoky Backroom
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson