Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-04-02
Union Meeting at Brooklyn.


On Monday night the friends Of the I'm.
ion:hsd densely packed meeting in one Of
the largest halls in Brooklyn. The Mayor,
Democrat, presided. lie made some gen.
eral remarks which were well received; but
when he ventured to raise objections to
some Of the measures Of the Government
for the suppression of the rebellion, he was
instantly stopped by cries of disapprobation,
and had to take his seat.
james 7. Brady was then introduced,
and spoke with great power and eloquence,
aud with fervid and unconditional zeal for
the Union. We give one passage which is
rarely equalled for true eloquence aud touch.
ing pathos:
-T"I hope the loyal women that have the
honor to address, and the thousands and
thousands of them outside Of this magnif
cent building who wish to see the dreadful
contest that divides our country brought to
close, may say to those compaing Of their
own sex, Cast your eye down along the
various tracks Of our army going forth as it
did in the hour Of our peril--represented by
many land-b all faiths, political and re-
ligious; look where the multitudes of armed
dead sleep, aud know nothing of storm 10
their slumbers-look at the poor widow left
deprived of her protectOr-look at the poor
orphans left destitute of him upon whom
they were dependent for support guidance
and protection--look you, American women,
upon the brother ofthat poor girl who walks
through Montague street, weeping in the
profouudest sorrow of her soul, ia contem.
plation OF the fact that her poor brother,
with no rounded turf above the place where
he reposes forever, lies in waiting for the
last .judgment-that poor girl, who could
not find his mouldering relic without the
special companionship of God, and who
knows that the flowers which she would like
to plant on his grave, if they would bloom
at all again, only become verdant in the
gloomy cells of her own broken heart. II
this picture does not start you women into
active exertion in behalf of the same loyal
cause we advocate, you will occupy posi-
ton different from that occupied by your
sex in any period of our history. 1t will be
left for you in the future to realize that cir
cumstance in the history of the controversy
between the Moors and Spaniards, where
Abdallah, the last OF the race of Moorish
kings reaching point that looked down
upon the towers of Grenada, with his moth
er by his side, wept and the spot is called,
/ believe, to this hour, ''The Last Sigh Of
the Moor"--and the mother, with the spir-
it Of a Spartan, told him that it was we'll
that he should weep like a woman for what
he had not the courage to defend like man.
And such should be the lesson Of every
American woman to every one Of those
croakers, cavillers, slanderers, towards, re-
creants and traitors, who undertakes to Sc,
up a.feeble expression of his own vanity
! agtanxt thu msessy Sewer Of pstridtism By
which our country is to be saved and made
honorable"
Mr. Van Buren, followed Mr.. Brady. -
His speech sbouuded in telling points. We
give one paragraph, in which be hits Val.
lsndigham:
We have had people from other States,
who have come here to give US information,
not only as to what the duty Of the electors
here is to do, but what is my duty, as we'll.
We had very recently before the Democratic
Union Association several addresses deliver
ed by gentlemen of Ohio, who told US what
we ought to do; how we we're in error in
the sentiments We entertained and in the
oourssywe followed. | met an old fashion.
cd farmer not long ago, who said to me,
Squire" lin the country lawyers are all
Squires) Squire, who is this man that is
going all round the country talking all the
time and insisting that free speech has been
crushed out by the general government p
Great Laughter. WELL" said l, 81
don't know whom you refer to-" "Well,'
said he, be is msn with very hard name
come from the State of Ohio; says that he
got beat when the Democrats carried the
State; ! don't remember the name"
said, Perhaps you mean Vallandigham. +"
That's the Bame," said he Said he,
Squire, why can't he be content with be.
ing beat at home, without coming here to
show us how we can be beaten here -
[Great laughter. You hear remarks of q
gentleman in the discussions in which they
were engaged, their declamations against
the suspension of the writ OF habeas corpus
their outcries in behalf Of free speech. You
would suppose they were never allowed tt
open their mouths And yet, if judge b,
what they do, instead OF what they say,
should think the difficulty was one for which
the government was not at all responsible
for they are never able to shut their mouths
Applause and laughter