Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-05-28
Great Mass Meeting iu New
York City in- VindicatI0n OF
Popular Rights.


The great mass m citing last evening at
the Union Square in behalf of free speech.
free press, and personal rights, and hav.
ing special reference to the viudication OF
these as violated in the arrest Of Mr..
Vallandigham, proved magnificent sue
cess both in numbers and enthusiasm. .---
The arrangements were under the suspices
of the Democratic Union Association. and
though necessarialy made somewhat hur-
riedly. owing to the urgency of immedi.
ate action, were most excellent.
1t was estimated by the most candid
persons, experienced in the mcaSurment
of audiences, that there were present be-
tween twenty-five AMI thirty thousand
people. -Four stands were crectcd--one
in font Of the monument of Washing.
ton. one facing it. one on the south side
Of Fourteenth street. and fourth in
front Of DR.. Cheevcr's church. One of
these was devoted entirely to German
speakers. All the stands were surround
Ell by perfect mass Of human beings
packed in the closest space and extending
Ak far out as the voice of the loudest
speaker could reach. The stands were
hung with American flags and were furn-
ished with several well arranged lamps
each, which shed sufficient light to render
the stand entirely conspicuous, and in al
dition TO these Drummond lights were
placed in different locations, lighting up
the whole scene around.
The meeting was quietly collecting on
the cast side Of the square at halfpast
seven. The German Legion pressed up
from the east side of the town and pack
closely around the stands, and at quar-
ter to eight they began to call for the
lights and music. Their numbers were at
the end not less than eight thousand.
At stand No. |, there were collected
about an equal number A still larger
and more dense crowd collected around
the the stand in front of the Mansion
Spingler Hotel, WAS the last to light up,
and massed about four thousand.
Besides the people colo ted at the stands
: there were hundreds of others who coul,
f find no place to listen at these regular
places and for that reason there were a,
many as a dozen extemparized platform:
about the sides of the square, on wagons
or stoops, from which speakers of vari
ous calber spoke to audiences of two o
three hundred. AT one place there wa
an eloquent young man in sold er's uni
form, telling a simple aud evidently
truthful story, not as CLEANED from news
papers, but from his own experience o
the campaigns of the Army o! the Poto
mac under Mcclellan, and expressing {
patriotic regret that the army now wa;
not under leadership in which the sol
diers had the confidence that they hac
been wont to feel for their own comman
der. Occasionally there passed by n sur
ly loyalist who. shutting his eyes to thu
O fact that the movement, whether right 0
A., wrong, was at least tremendously form
idable, would express the regret, as on
. was heard to DO, that New York was no
. yet sufficiently under martial law to pre-
, vent such demonstrations Of the people.
= There were many who. having bee
, presen. at the meeting of the so Gale,
Loyal Leagues, could not refrain from
comparing this meeting with those, an
remalking that with much less adver
tisement aud display there was twice an,
norho,o ,hr;ca.tne numhor of non,Jo on,
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q asm.
, The various meetings broke M betwce
half past nine and ten, moro from a lac
:, of voice on the part of speakers than o
, any waning interests in the audience.
10 RESOLUTIONS.
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-" "i MS ie'Io" cluZchS. nhu,
in WHEREAS, The SAID military commission nav
!. sentenced him to punishment az yet unknow
but which is to be announced III some mIlita'
III order to be promulgated hereafter: therefore,
$. ReSOired, The we, the citizens OF the city
Ia New York here assembled. dcn"unce the ARE
of Hon Clement l.. Vallandghnm and his trl
and sentence by military commission as stat
ling outrage upon the hitherto sacred rights
American citizenship.
10 ResoLped, That tho exigencies OF civil war
-. quire the fullest and freest discussion of pub
, questions by the American people, to the enu III
u their temporary public servants may not lore
a., Al AI hn Hl.In