The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-02
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.


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Inc largest and most enthusiastic meeting eve,
neld In bergen county, convened at Schaaenberp
~ d., tuesday afternoon, to express condemns
slon OF the usurpstions of the Executive Depart
ment. Loud threats had been made that the meet.
ing would be broken up, and to in6.me the mas.
SONS OF men, stories had been indusriousIv circu
'ated mat secession flag ,cas to be raised A band
W hnt-grown rufilans was brought in a sIoop from
iohkers to Closter, and marched over But thnpoh
an attempt was made BY certain parties IN hrnsk
ny tne meeting, and threats of taking the stand
| 80 thrown out, their courage did not hold ont
| Iaa6e setnhg a little side meeting up, the ring
nauers and their followers SUNK away. The
| nieeung was great success and was od5-o.oJ
| ,s9'ous'y oy Thomas w. Lawrence Esn of Rnck
R sn% county, and Dr. Thomas Dunn English, of
me speakers were enthusjasticaIIy an
| Plauded, and their remarks fell Ill s ap-
people, arousng their patriotism and deteri vi
70 stand by all their rights under the Constituti
The resolutions below were, among others EQUALLY
significant adopted by the meeting:
ReSo'rsd, That charge the awful responsibility t
the pending CIVIL WAR for all its OF valnabIs
lives its lavish waste of treasure and the deadly b -
has stricken at our prosperity people, upon the aqi
ator IN the Northern States who through the press and
popular assemhlages and most of all from a prostuted
pulpit have exerted themselves to educate generation
10 hate the South; and who are today gean over tho
spectacle Of Americans bounded on to sIanghfer by the
very parties who witnesses of the cont ST bnt too
cowardy to participate in it, That the sggressors
me states have been the sgresors of the bonds ~
the Union; and that upon the of the nslayerv
i @ ana aemasog4es of the North, who playing
rest the crimes Of fratricde bloodshed and tsasnD
States fF anu '"e Union OF the
RsSoLrsd That the suppression of the writ Of bobeo,
oy irresponsible sodlery through the orders OF the
Executive; the seizure of respectful nptitiops itht
coIr OF law by the police of New York. the unlawful in
crease OF the standing army; stoppage of newspaner
ss IN Mlssoufi the incarceration citizens without
warrant ana the Systematic attempts made to renress
ee speech nv the tools If the President meet our So
N'St concentration and cured nv the naaso1o
OF laws which Themselves equally pncopstiti,,iH
ana therefore void and Of no ene,t
The Fruits of the Contest
Inc New York Express gives the following de-
scrlptIon of the hungry applicants for the war
charity in that city:
~ ne h9tunda, IN the Park. presented this morn
ing sad scsne Surrounded bv the costI ad diF ~
OF our merchant princes, upwards of eiqht hundraJ
lemaies, rom the girl scarcely in her teens to th
uame OF lour score and ten, were huddled to,otso
IN the narrow lane between the Superior O.
buildings and the R0tunda, all anxious to Obtain
the relief promised them by the CITY authorities
lnelr faces mostly presented look Of misery
ana the traces OF tears were still visible on NOT
a few of them. There were Irish, German. French
ana Italian women, seemingly of all classes in So
'iety, and even an African occasionally mada her
appearance.
The Post adds
The Americans, who were but small nronor-
ion' We're matronely in appear snce, and their INV
iognomy showed an expression indicating that
hsy we're not accustomed to such erraads
Relief for the Poor.
, AT the meeting of the wives of volunteers in
lurner Hall, Cincinnati on Sunday afternoon INV
q, the following resolution together with Others:
vas pass d ~ is'
hsSoD d, That every wife and family of volunteers d.
rived OF support of livelihood shall receive
ess than l.5O weekly for their support