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[1] DS, DNA RG 46, Senate 37A F2. The despatch from Thomas H. Dudley, U.S. Consulate, Liverpool, England, February 3, 1863, enclosed a memorial from ``the distressed operatives of Blackburn,'' expressing thanks for kindness and sympathy and the hope that the war might come ``to a speedy termination in favor of freedom, regardless of race or color.'' The memorial suggested further that ``the benevolent object you have in view would be more effectually accomplished by affording to distressed operatives free or assisted passages to some port in the United States, where employment could be afforded them. This plan, your memorialists feel convinced, would be infinitely preferable to that of sending provisions for distribution by the relief committee of England. . . .''