Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-03-10
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'N'N 20 t-A-tNAAA-lt -4AA-AEA-I A-f Ail-e-
ne Grens mass aIsetins AT New YORK.
r4s Al immense Union mass meeting was
heldRt Cooper Institute, New. York, On
& - Friday evening. An armyOf men hllsi
The vast hali, and as many more stood out
side General Wetmorc introduced TO the
auiience, among Others, the venerable Gen
% - arai SVift, as one Who fought forhissoun-
- m ~ nore than fifty years ago he also
af introduced the little drummer-boy, Of the
81 Michigan, who crossed with the 6Tst
baai-load At Fredericksburg. BE had just
zais bssn presented With new drum, and beat
tattoo upon st for the benefit Of the sudi-
- enoe. william Cullen Bryant presided
over the meeting. Among the speakers
were Rev. Dr.. Hitchcock James 7. Brady
David Dudley Field, Charles P Daily, John
Van Buren, Henry ]. Raymond and D. K.
Cartier, Of this city. The speeches were
~ al BOUND and fall Of truth, for the fel-
low members Of the Democratic party
with Messrs Brady and Van Buren.
Mr.. Brady declared that he was ready to
be called Yankee if the rebels insisted
upon it, and, after quoting remark Of
General Shields that wherever the Yankee
located q blacksmith shop, tavern, or
schoOl-house, he was never known to secede
from it, he went on to advise his Southern
brethren that if these Yankees, who had
theory about the war, once got down into
Southern territory and put arms into the
hands Of the negroes, and put up their
long feet on the tables of the estates of
which they took possession, be did not
want to be the lawyer employed in an ae-
tion Of ejeotment
Johd Van Bursn expressed his hearty
support Of the President, and approved Of
the acts giving him full control of the
purse and the sword. There should be no
cutlery against extraordinary powers"
except from those who wanted to see the
Rebellion prosper. BE did rot question
the eonstitutionality Of the Proclamation,
he questioned merely its utility. Till the
so-ealled Confederate Government was de-
8 strOyed, he held ali propositions for peace
to be entirely prepOsterous and absurd.
he would sustain this war to the bitter
end, and he thought that by united action
that might be reached in ninety days.
Mr.. Cartier said that the hour for talk
ing had passed There was no occasion
for the dependency that had marked the
tone Of most Of the speeches Of the evening.
He did not concur with the idea Of many
that this would be short war; It might
be long war-snd at any rate, if not sue
esssful, he hoped it would be longer than
his life. There was no occasion for de-
spondeney st what had already been done.
Kentucky had been redeemed, as well as
Missouri, Maryland, part of Tennessee
and part Of Louisiana. The rebellion had
been driven 70 the limits Of the very " in
tensity Of niggerdom." Laughter. 1t
had been in a death-rattle for three months
past. In his opinion the rebellion had been
kept alive by the money Of Great Britsin.
TApplause The rebels also had their
agents and oficers in the North. Brooks
was one Of their high feld-ofheers. He |
would like to know how it was that, from !
week to week, and from year to year, such |
black sheep as he was pRtronized and |
supported in this city. How was it that
such torchlight of treason IS his paper
was allowed to burn in this city every eve
ming Groans for the Express. One Of
the modes adopted by the rebels to fight
their battles here st the North was to get
up a clamorous contest about who should
be Justice of the Peace in Utica. Great
iaughter.l One would suppose, from the
great hullsbaloo made about the election
in this State last fall, that the destinies Of
the whole world hung on the issue; that
the world was near its end, and the judg-
ment-day not far of. [Laughter.l And
while We we're thus disputing about who
should be constable in some petty village,
JEFF. Davis was laughing in his sleeve at
our stupidity, and fddling while Rome
was burning. One Of the speakers had
said that JEFF Davis called US hyenas. He
wished to God it were true, and that we
were byenas, laughter; but we had car
ried on the war thus far as though we were
sheep. rGreat laughter. The speaker
closed by saying that when he went to
South America two years ago, he left at
home two grown-up sons One of them
was lying in a soldiers grave, and the
other was liable to follow his fate any day,
and he would rather go there, too, than see
this glorious Republic broken up Great
spplsuse.]
At the close of Mr.. Cartter's speech,
General Wetmore moved thsta all the speak
ers Of the evening be elected honorary
members of the Union League, which was
unanimously carried. The meeting then
closed, with three cheers for the Union,
the Constitution and the Laws"