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THE MEETING on saTUaSAx.'
The duty 10 attend the meeting called
by the friends Of the President, Of. the
Union and Of Emancipation, for the pur+
pose Of sustaining the one, preserv.
ing the other, and helping ON
the third, is imperative, and no good ctti-
zen can safely neglect it 1t is due to the
era in which we live and to the cause in
which all loyal men are embarked, not
only that the people should, BY frequently
taking council with each other, learn to
defend their liberties TINT are imperiled,
but that the Piesideneof the United States
should be sustained and encouraged in the
exercise Of the solemn duies Of his plaee,
by the approving voices Of those who hare
urged him to the divine work that he has
undertaken. He must be endorsed And |
towhom can he 50 confidently look as to
the men Of his OWL faith? We appeal to
every patriotic citizen Of Chicago-to all
who love the Union Of the States and the
institutions which are the outgroTth Of
that Union, better than they love slavery,
the cause Of all our woes-to encourage
by their presence, to applaud By their
voices, and to approve by their votes the
devotion, the high courage, and the pre-
eminent patriotism Of ABRAHAM LEcoLs,
the author Of that Proclamation which
viii, in Heavens good time, enable the
Republic to boast that, within all her broad
and ever increasing area, there is neither
an armed traitor nor an unwilling slave!
Let the people come It is their cause.
+. Why should any refuse the invita-
ton extended to all? Nc have
been wagipg war for thirteen months,
invoking, as it was never invoked before,
the "barbazism Of force" We have put
into the field nearly three quarters ofa mil
lion Of mcr; We have expended a thousand
million Of dollars; We have lost 100000 to
10000 precious lives, and what have We
accomplished After varying SUCCESSES,
and many defeats, we have at Inst brMght
around to the poiut from Which VIC origi-
nally set out; and the rebellion is as FIR
from being conquered as when the bugle
first sounded to arms. We follow the pro-
silcntial example and remain reticent as
to the cause of the humiliation which has
attended our arms; but ne 60 beyond that
and declare what he would not officially
announce, that the patriotism Of the
country, lately drawn upon for an addi-
tionm six hundred thousand Of our yeo-
many, admits Of no further draft
upon its resources; that the finances Of
the country, exhausted by the drain, are,
without instant success for which
VIC cannot reasonably hope, if we judge Of
the future by the past, in daily danger Of
collapse, which will make the further pros
ccution Of the war impossible except upon
terms and conditions to which our people
would submit only under the domination
Of military force; that our foreign re1a-
lions, complicated BY the disturbance
which the rebellion has introduced into
the manufacturing and commercial world,
forbid the hope that, without change oi
policy which would, ut once and as if by
magic, range the sympathies Of mankind
On our side, and settle the question Of in
tcrycntion forever, they could long remain
undisturbed by actual and deadly war;
that the masses, tired Of the fruitlcss strug
gle in which We have gained no advan
tages, would protest that the contest hat
progressed far enough, and that eve,
at the cost OF dishonor, it must close; ant
that the threatening Of the disloyal po1
ton Of our Northern population, mad
bold By the impunity that they have en-
joycd, Wculd at last toke On the form o
actual resistance to the authorities, aud in
angurate civil war at home. We stat
these things as the main points in the resul
that has been attained. Thus much la
force accomplished. What ne could no
see in prospective is plain in the retrospcc
and We do not excEsgrratc tho facts.
Here, then, on enc side, was the DANCE
Of diahonored, an Impoverished and
broken country-a country that force coul
not save from the destruction that
has invited BY its persistent support Of IL
barharism Of selling men; and on the otht
side the means Of sure salvation in til
invocation Of moral powx
which has in it not only the healing Of til
nation, but The emancipation Of the warlt
1twas reserved for the President, himse
q dcvout believer in the efficacy Of NOR.
principles, to recommend to his countr,
men practical illustration Of the fact tn
ideas-morh agencics-not bayonets 81
the appliances Of q barbaric age, rule Il
world. With the trusting faith of chill
and patriotism that is above all praise, ]
has, By the proposal to do justice to the o
pressed, called the Almighty to the aid
the Union causc. We cannot doubt the +
suit. With our whole heart we endors
approve, Justify aud defend his act. Z
induce others to follow our example, q,
suatain and uphold this last and most N
mo1able and exalted of the presiden
deeds, VIC write Oh, shame, that in Il
hour Of the Republics peril there shot,
be in all the North one man TINT is inscn
bic to the danger, and unwilling to aid
~ the rescue1; Oh, shame, that in this bless
land, in which rational liberty hal
birth, There should be party SO sodl
ard corrupted by the Influences of the ,