Weekly national intelligencer., 1864-03-24
!. nccLELLAs DEMONSTRATION.

There was great Mcclellan demonstrstion at Cooprf
Institute in New York Thursday evening last The
Journal OF Commerce says that /" the great hall was
packed and ammed 10 ts utmost capacity. No arrange
ments had been made for outside meetings No platforms
were erected lights prepared. notwithstanding this,
after the hall and obbies filled to sufocation thou
sands crowded the street n front OF the Institute standing
in the cold March wind and heard by moonlight series
of brilliant speeches from the front bacony while other
thousands aud went unable to get near The speakers
Such meeting, unaded by party machinery, was never
before seen in New York America. The enthusiasm
immense in all parts of the vast gathering" The fol
lowing resolutions were adopted:
Whereas frarcidal war, originating in disregard Of
the xims and warnings of fathers is desoatng the
land and three tenng the permanent disruption of our
Federal Union;
And whereas the present Administration by their fatal
policy in the conduct of the by their infringement
upon State and individual rights, by general suspension
of the writ habeas corpus and substituting military for
civil courts and above ALL by employing the army to sup
press the freedom Of elections and forcing governments of
mn0tes upon the people of the States has not only
tractsd the indefinitely bringing upon the country in
termnabe taxation and financial ruin but has created
alarm for the integrity OF the States and the liberty
Of their citizens; all threatened to be swallowed up IN
fanatcal despot'su, the worst OF all Governments
And whereas the country has guaranty for the speedy
and successful termination of the under tee lmbecle
and changeabs of the present Administration
through other means than by change o men at the
Re,oipsd That we earnestly invite all our fellow ct
zens of whatever shades Of political opinion and under
whatever political organizations, to units with us in one
concerted effort to place at the head OF our Government
man whose wisdom integrity, and rmness the country
may rely with hope for speedy suppression OF the rebel
hon-the cessation Of bOodshed and the maintenance OF
the Union which fathers bequeathed to us-a Union
of independent States and free peoples created by the
Constitution and to be maintained only by ts Observance
Resoiped That the right Of suffrage, regulated by the
States is the only safeguard Hor individual liberty and
must be defended at every hazard.
Resoiped That recognise In Gen George H. Nc
CIean qualifications which emnenty fit him to be the de-
lyerer and saviour of country and hold it to be
the paramount duty of all patriotic citizens and oganiza
tons abandon all disturbing questions and rally around
him as the destined preserver of our constitutional
liberties.
The Hon. AMOS KENDALL presided over the meeting
and delivered eloquent and effective speech Other
speakers were the Hon. HIRAM KETCHUM, jr., Hon.
RICHARD T. JACOBS Lieutenant Governor OF Kentucky;
Gen. A. BANNING NORTON, and Col. MAX LANGEH-
swARTZ The Journal Of Commerce says:
"This meet ng not pohticans' meeting 1t was
not called for formally endorsed by any OF the great
Of tho party managers But the psops took it up and
made it great success The gentlemen who seem to
have started the ball those who represented
in the Convention which met at Philadelphia months
since, and nominated Gen Mcclellan for the Presidency
Their call for meeting in New York unalded by any of
the party machinery answered last night by entbu
sastic thousands, Republicans and Democrats, who re
cognse the noble character and commanding ab tes of
Gen. Mcclellan