Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1863-06-03
Important Meeting in New York---A
Demand for Peace.

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adopted by this meeting are the boldest yet
put forth by any Northern community
They are Internationally opposed to the
war, and in favor of immediate peace
They denounce the Administration in un-
qualified terms, and reprobate in the strong
est language its invasion of personal liber-
ty in the proceedings against Mr. Vallan-
digham. They further disclaim the action
of the leading Democrats Of Albany in put.
ting forth an address whose sentiments on
the subjects of the war are obnoxious to
those who adopted these resolutions, The
speeches on the occasion were bold and de-
fant. They contain none of the cant against
the rebellion which has been INDUCED by
prominent Northern politicians disappro-
wing of the proceedings against. Vallaudig-
ham-and they show no trucking to the
despotism at Washington by claiming credit
for helping on the war The resolutions
and speakers were for once consistent and
manly. The reader will be struck with
the brave and telling speech Of Mr.. James
Brooks, who entities himself to our admira.
ton. The resolutions were as follows:
Resolued, That We reiterate our opposi.
ton to this bloody, relentless, unnecessary
and fruitless war. In our opinion, it is
time that the whole American people North
aud South should demand of their rulers
its immediate discontiDuance.
,Resoloed, That the arrest aud detention
of the Hon. Clement L. Vallandigham, of
Ohio, upon military order, as punish
ment for the exercise of the right of free
speech in popular discussion, (Which is no
offence under the laws of the land, is an.
other step toward absolute despotism. We
denounce this act, by whomsoever authori.
zed or instigated, as crime against the
people of all the States. To resist aggres
sion less odious, our revolutionary fathers,
of every colony on the continent, made
common cause, aud we, men of New York,
sympathiziug with our brethren of other
States subjected to such outrages, pledge
sour lives, our fortunes, and our sacred
honors," TO stand by them to the last.
Resozued, That the conduct of our for.
eign affairs by this Administration has been
series of blunders; at times clustering
and again timid now pot valiant, and then
cowardly-has at last placed US in posi-.
ton where even England dares to bully US.
While we deprecate and shall continue to
oppose the prosecution of the civil war
pending, we require and demand that the
Administration shall submit to no more in.
suits from Great Britain. To resist that
insoleut power we pledge every man and
every dollar required in vigorous and
successful effort to maintain the honor, the
flag, and the interest of the country.
Resolved, That the paper lately issued
at Albany, purporting to be the address of
the Democratic members of the Legislature,
has no binding effect upon the Democracy
of this city or vicinity, because our mem
bers, whose name were without authority
attached to it, did not sign and do not con-
cur in it, and because said paper advocates
a continuance of the war under the policy
of the Administration, with all its objects,
outrages, and unconstitutional purposes
We call upon the members of This city to
publicly disavow it, or We shall disavow
them.
Resozoed, That in view of this attempt
at Albany to place the Democratic party Of
the State in false position as favoriDg
continuance of the war, We are glad to learn
that the masses composing the Democratic
party will meet in State Convention at an
early day, to the end that they may express
their own opinions upon this great question,
independent of the selfish clique which has
so long ruled and ruined the party organi-
zation of the empire State.
These resolutions were followed by
number of able speeches, denounciug the
Administration in the most unmeasured
terms. 1t is enough to give sketch Of the
most prominent of them:
Hon. James Brooks said he thought
crisis had arisen in public affairs in which
it is necessary for, every man, as often as
possible, to show himself in public iu order
to rebuke the existing Administration
When distinguished public man whom he
knew well, whom many of them knew we'll,
whom We all loved and revered, distinguish
ed for his eloquence, his learning, his high
attaiuments; distinguished above all for his
moral heroism-physical heroes are abun-
dant, but moral heroes are few and far be-
tween-when such man had been arres-
ted, he had felt it his duty to appear here
and join in a general expression Of public
opinion. Mr.. Brooks related the circum-
stances of Mr.. Vsllaudigbam's arrest. The
doors of his house had been battered down
at three o'clock in the morning by COM
pany of Abolition soldiers, armed with
muskets, and he was arrested, kidnapped
from his wife and house, abducted, carried
off to Cincinnati, and incarcerated there
lawlessly, tyrannically, wickedly, by the
minions in power. No outrage on earth can
be SO great as that. No King in Europe,
not Napoleon on his throne, Or the Gar of
Russia even, dare violate the sacredness of
a private citizens home, and the principle
is so high and holy in English law, that for
FIVE hundred years the King of England
has not dared to violate it. A mans house