Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-04-23

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60 lot the oeneht OF hospitals, and many gems
from Shakspear will be performed
CANTBRBuRY.-" The House that Jacl
b3lit, and many songs and dances.
NARIETIEs.-Sopgs, dances and Ethiopiar
performances. A good bill generally.
METRoPoLITAN HALL.-The regular concer
nail entertainment here tonight.
street, there is a delightful fair for the benefi
OF the Fourth Presbyterian Church.
Also at Pompeian Hall, Georgetown, for the
oenehtof Catholic Free Schools.
Opposition Mass Meeting at Union League
Rooms.
Pursuant to a published unsigned call q
number Of persons assembled last night at the
Union League rooms, on Ninth street, aud or
gained by calling Judge G. E. H. Day to the
cha and appointing Mr.. Cordial Storrs, Of the
Treas ury Department, Secretary.
MI Day, upon assuming the chair, said as
TINS was an adjourned meeting he did not think
1t necessary to state the objects, but 1t was
proper to make brief statement as to the
legality OF this meeting. He understood the
can week ago to be by the Republican Asso-
all Union men We're invited to participate In
the nomination and election of delegates The
convention assembled. It was not a meeting
the officers OF that ASSOCIATION had no right to
act a. the meeting but chairman should have
been elected. He had great respect for the
gentlemen who acted at that meeting as Presi.
dent and Secretary but he day thought they
mistook their duties. That meetiag was adj
journed for one week and no authority was
this, and when the president Of the last meet
ing called tor an assemblage at another place
he outstepped his duties. Mr.. Day believed
TINS was the legal convention and that any
other was bogus.
MIR. J. r. Elyans offered the following res
oiutions, which he said he understood would
also be offered at the City Hall meeting:
Whereas the call for this convention to elect
delegates to the convention to be held in Balti.
more June :, 1864, invites those only who de.
sire the complete suppression of the rebellion,
vention which met at this place on Friday eve
ming, the 18th inst and adjourned over to meet
here tonight, declared, by an almost unani-
nous vote, that slavery was the sole cause of
the rebellion: Therefore be it
ReSotred. That no one is entitled to vote in
this convention for delegates who does not sin.
cerely endorse that resolution, and who is not
In favor OF the determination of slavery as the
only means to ensure lasting peace ard per-
petual Union. -.
Before the resolution was acted upon, Mr.
Deeble, OF Georgetown, stated tn at he belle we'd
Mr.. Coombs had at the last meeting acted as
chairman only because he (Coombs) believed
he had perfect right to do SO. AS test matter,
he Mr. ID. would therefore move that this
meeting adjourn to the City Hall.
This was opposed on many hands, and DR..
Boyd moved to lay the matter on the table; but
was WltnQraWO, ana Il direct vote
was taken upon the question, and the meeting
largely decided that they would not 60 to the
City Hall.
MIR Elvans' resolutions were then unani-
mously adopted.
Dr. Boyd here obtained the floor and offered
apreamble and resolutions setting forth that a
great massacre of Union troops had taken
place at Fort Pillow, and advocating retalia-
uon, and that vigilance committee be ap-
pointed at once 10 look after traitors every
where, and especially those in our midst and
those in Congress.
The resolutions thought it eminently necessa-
~ to get rid of few Of the big fish fist, and
in support of this DIR. Boyd introduced the
followin poetic efusion:
That we hang home traitors up to dry,
While we look after smaller fry
That he who would for traitors make apology,
Wen allow to dance the old doxology
OF unmeasured step and time,
BY the parhos Of trap and jerk Of line.
The resolutions were too long to be immedi-
ately considered, and were therefore laid on
On motion Of Mr.. Elvans the vote whereby
the following resolution offered by Mr.. Rich
ards at the last meeting, was passed, was re-
Reslred, That our delegates who shall be
elected to attend the Baltimore convention
which is TO assemble in that city on the eth Of
June next, to nominate candidates for the Of.
fees of President and Vice President of the
United States, be and they are hereby instruct
ed to cast their votes, for the first-named office,
in favor O. Abraham Lincoln, and that we
influence and best endeayors to secure his re-
nomination
Mr. EIvans offered as substitute the resolu-
tons offered by him at a previous meeting, and
which were the same as those offered last week.
and which expressed no preference for any
can iidate, but left the delegates untrammelled.
Mr.. Decide thought MIR. Richards resolution
could be well amend ID by striking ont the
words inst ructed, and requesting the delegates
10 vote for Mr.. Lincoln.
MIR. r. M. Hall, (elerk from Indiana moved
hat ta no a
of five to prepare platform to be submitted to
the meeting The committee, which could be
composed Of intelligent gentlemen, would
bring in the proper resolutions, and by this
course a better understanding would probably
be had. ..
Mr Wolf "a clerk) was opposed to the ap.
pointment of a committee. He believed all
here could understand the resolution. All
were supposed to be gentlemen, an all were
intelligent else they would not be radical.
Nj Fred Myers (of the Treasury Depart
ment) argued that If the resolution as it now
reads was adopted the delegates going from
here to Baltimore would not be admitted at the
Convention as contestants with the party at
the City Hall. He wanted the delegates elected
here to be admitted to the Baltimore Conven-
ton, but he did not want it to go abroad that
this was an anti. Lincoln meeting. fApplause.
Mr.. Wolf did not know that this was Linz
coin meeting but Union meeting hut the
question was whether the delegates should 60
there Instructed or unbiased and vote for the
best man.
Mr.. r. M. Hall said he agreed we were here;
not as partisans but as Union men. But while
we were here for the Union there were certain
gentlemen preferred by different parties and he
believed q committee could so shape the reso-
luton as to satisfy all parties. He (the
speaker) believed in Abraham Lincoln. 1t was
Abraham Lincoln who had emancipated this
District and this man who you would put
down: this man Abraham Lincoln had ever
but his duty. Renewed applanse.l In every
instance he had been found faithful.
Some parties in the rfeIghborhood of the
speaker here interrupted him with cries OF
sSch offeld," s'Missouri," s'Gamble," &c, and
the speaker continued by saying he would not
be put down by such cries. MIR. Lincoln may
not have removed Schofeld, but If he did not
do so he believed he was doing right. zap.
plause.l Mr.. Lincoln had ever believed that
The shackles which bound the slave would be
stricken off and that the oppressed would GO
man as Mr.. Lincoln cannot and will not be pu,
down. We are willing to abide by the decision