New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-06-12
NEwYORK Daily TRIBUNE FRIDAY. JUNE H. 1863

sent beyond the seas never to return. IApplaa
lie concluded by alludisg 10 the mission OF the g.
Ored peope OF this cOuutry 10 strike for ireedor'
Now wss the time for them to take up tho rallying
cry of Fremont and Liberty" [appausel, and
they would soon have IN army Of men who would
eat the very heart of Slavery in It's own abode; an
army which, III its march through the enemy conn
try, would call to s side tens OF thousands OF theii
race, who should make one bold stand one advance,
ard finish the wicked Rebellion. tApplause.l
HORACE GiEELrf said lie was not one OF those
who had taken IN sanguino views OF the present
contest Ne some of his iellow.ciiizens lie briefly
reviewed the most leeont Copperhead movements,
in the mids OF which srge clsss OF our population
had expressed their preference for JET. Davis and
the Rebellion, md not word Of sympathy for The
Union Gauss. IL was significant however, that they
had not offered any sneer at the idea Ut negro col
ders. The question WIS no longer, Will black
men fight :" That had settled itself. Now the
question was, " ,ShJuid the black man icbt =
/ Applause. They could not make man with n
nuOket aud bayonet over hls shoulder contempt
itle; and when the word went out that hund,
red thousand men, armed and equipIeed
the field ready to face the enemy, would be done
with sneenug at tire negro. When the 9th .huesa-
chuset.s Regiment marched through BUston there
was sneering. regiment If always respectable
unless il was running away. Slavery could never
be respectable any more. They cVuid not now gel
$1,000 Clergyman TO preach n Pro-SlaveTy sermon
/ lAp hute.l TIE case OF liam, aud Canaan. aud
Uuesi,nus, and the rest OF them had been settled
IAppGuse.l Ii had been iuIimaed that in their ex-
tfe.niiy tho Rebels would call out the blacks aud
offer them their freedom TO fight for the South. lie
thought that after asserting to The world that black
men could not be otherwise than slaves, aud that
the Southern CoDfederacy was 10 be established
Tor The pcrpctuity Of Slavery, any such u
resort now would be simply ridiculous.
Tue, they might nse black men 20 do
heir digging, or TO fire upon our soldiers; bat
that war never done but when Rebel soldiers stood
u, heir backs ready to shoot them down II they re-
fused. He udinOnished every man who weut iu.o
this war IN a soldier 10 30 with one grand universal
and eternal object and they would come out right
Believing that tho time had arrives Tor the black
men TO strike the blow that must determine the
hnits Of their Slavery ana tho Rebellion, lie be-
seeched them all 10 say TO colored men everywhere
20 and help in the finishing stroke OF the war-to
10 as men resolved 10 stand by the cause OF our
common country, ana los the land he hereafter
known ne the land o. Justice ard Right, Lquahly
and Universal Freedom. lApplan-e.
Tho resolutions were then unanimously adopted
Col. Fiirnsn moved that the following named
gentlemen be added TO tbs committee with power 10
~ To tier number known iioncr o. tho cause, aud
10 continue tner Lahore in It's furtherance John h.
Williams, Horace Greeley. Dan y Dickinton, I'd
ward Hsight, Edgar ketchuw, VIM. Cullen Bryant,
Nm Curtis Noyes. Peter Cooper, Mons hVtcbum
Park Goiwin, Henry Is. Stanton and james Black
The meeting then adjourned.