, 1864-10-07
AM McCLELLAN MnErINa N NEw YoRk CI1

The MCCLELLAN MEETING IN New YORK CITY.
The telegraph gave short time ago an ink
ling of the meeting held in N Y City in honor
meeting was much larger than the telegraph re-
ported. The immense gathering is estimated by
the New York papers to have reached 100, ,0OO
The New York World says of it:
The rally of the fiends of General McClel-
Ian at Union square last Wednesday evening
called together what was by all odds the most
tremendous and enthusiastic meeting ever held
in the metropolis The great war meeting after
the fall of Sumter was supposed to be the great
est meeting held in this city up to that time, and
certainly we have had nothing like it up to the
meeting of last night, which at the very lowest
calculation, was twice, if not thrice as large
Not only was the vast space of Union square
densely packed but all the avenues of approach
TO it were choked with the masses of human be-
ings who eager, by their presence and vol
ces, to do honor to the soldier-statesman Gene
raj George B. Mcclellan.
This was not be it understood a Democratic
meeting, though doubtless many old Democrats
were present. 1t was a spontaneous gathering
Of all parties and kinds of men who opposed
to the present administration. The "sold'
men of the city were largely represented, and ii
more respectable and well-behaved crowd was
yer seen in the city. 1t a peoples meet
lag in every respect, and the old party hacks
were not even present speakers.
Tens of thousands of the sons of toll, i'm
mense representations from every branch of in
dustry of our city and neghborhOod, had
thrcng to this great, open plot of ground, fa-
nous Tor a thousand mass meetings, yet all
dwarfed by this mighty gathering of the people
Far as the eye could pierce the distance, in ev-
cry direction, it met the same scenes, a forest OF
waving banners and transparencies, a host OF
dancing lanterns, sea of human heads, arms
tossing, hats and caps describing circles, a
swaying multtude-the same everywhere. And
all around this immense web of humanity, in
windows, on balconies and hOuse-tOps, was
fringe of fair women, whose waving banker
chiefs were thick as leaves in Valambrosa. Up
on the ear fell the Babel-sound of a hundred
thousand voices. "Little Mac 'Hurrah for
Mcclellan" "Bully for him." "Antietam,
'Malyern Hill, >" "The man we love, "The best
soldier in the army" ''How are you StantOnY
"How are you, smutty joker?' "Where's shod-
dy?' "Old Abe relieved Mcclellan: we will re-
lieve him, Where's Anna DickersonY "HOw
about the nameless General nowP' "a hunky
boy is George Mcclellan" "Where the
wide-awakes F'-these, and ten thousand other
expressions, broke upon the startled ear oi
night
NO small proportion of this mighty thron2
was composed of the men who have fought un-
der General Mcclellan. Wounded and battle
SCARED many of them were: yet they had all
pressed to the spot where their favorite was tC
receive his due report. With the stains of the
battlefield still fresh upon them, some bearing
emblems of their service in their uniforms, and
some in citizens dress, they had come to hear
the praises of their great commander to wit
ness and to join in the splendid popular ovation
to the patriot who had marshalled them to vic
tory.
To attempt to describe the enthusiasm of this
immense assemblage, or even to give a simple
statement of the effect it produced in its mere
Yastness, is next to impossible.n