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On the recordFebruary 27, 1863
I transmit, for the consideration of Congress, a dispatch to the Secretary of State from the United States consul at Liverpool, and the address to which it refers, of the distressed operatives of Blackburn, in England.
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Abraham Lincoln
Republican · Illinois

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