Good Sirs and Madams,
I pen this letter to you in the hopes of dampening some of your fears as to our support of the CSA. To do so, I will explain the logic of Her Majesties Government in regards to our involvement and I shall make clear to you our intentions.
Her Majesties Government does not intend to support slavery by supporting the CSA, by doing so, we are supporting those sacred British beliefs of individual rights and the ability of a people to choose for themselves their course on the world stage. The logic behind our action is as follows; the Empire has only become so abolitionist after several years of enlightenment by heroes such as William Wilberforce, a natural process that gradually turned public opinion towards the end of slavery. The Empire did not have abolition forced upon us through peace, something that would likely have created much bitter feeling between former slaves and the rest of the populace. Furthermore, Her Majesties Government would still be supporting the continuation of slavery if we sided with the Union, as President Lincoln has promised to let slavery continue, as you can see, this means that both sides are pro slavery. Furthermore, Her Majesties Government believes it will be much easier to use our good influences to bring about the end of slavery, something we fully intend to do, should the Americas be uninhabited by large powerful, pro slavery states, which would likely resist us with armed force at the very mention of Abolitionism. Therefore, by supporting the CSA, all Her Majesties Government is supporting is the ideals of individual liberty and freedom, so sacred amongst British culture.
I hope this letter has disuaded and calmed some of your fears and rest assured that I will happily meet you in person so that we may talk over the situation more thoroughly.
Yours,
Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Prime Minister of Her Majesties government acting on behalf of Her Imperial Majesty The Queen-Empress Victoria, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Empress of India