American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-02-17
Union Organization i'm N. Y.

We clip from the New York Tribune,
of last Monday, the annexed report of a
meeting of the Unconditional Union Cen
tral Committee of that city, on Saturday
evening last 1t was, we believe, its first
public meeting:
There was a meeting of the Uneondi-
tional Union Central Committee, corner of
Broadway and Thirteenth street, on Satur-
day evening. A. c. Ellis, Esq, Chair
man of the Committee, called the meeting
to order. Afterthe minutes of the organ
ization were read, Mr.. Horace Greeley,
who was enthusiastically received, spoke in
substance es follows:
FELLOW CITIZENS: I greet you as
among the most vigorously patriotic of all
our loyal citizens. The time has come
when, in the words of Daniel Webster,
Union and Liberty are one and insepara-
BILE. And the time has come when the
loyal North has become one and insepara-
Bile in its determination that Liberty shall
prevail in the present struggle. y The
rebellion is tottering to its final defeat /
do not fear so much the arms of the Re
bellion as do its principles. Both our
defeats and our victories have contributed
to the victory of the just cause. Six months
ago we were struggling with the rebels for
Missouri, but no rebel force now for along
time has dared to show itself in the State.
In like manner the rebels claim Tennes-
see, but for long time have not dared
show themselves there. The whole ter
ritory which we hold now we hold on the
principles of freedom. Even if the Rebels
should recover the territory of these two
States, they would not, be able to re-estab-
lish slavery there. Six months ago we
asked them to take pay for slavery and give
it up. They refused. They would not
take the money, but now both OF those
States are themselves getting rid of sla-
very without our paying cent for it
They might of had $40, 900, 900 each for
doing this. Nor do any of the Copper
heads now find fault with the employment
of slaves as soldiers. We have learned a
costly lesson about the real spirit of sla-
very and of its allies OF this lesson we
had a special instance in the riots in New
York last July, when innocent people,
against whom no crime whatever was even
alleged, were hunted down merely because
they were not in favor of the JEFF. Davis
Government. y One word about can
didates have no candidate for any of
fce But We ought to have six candidates
put up for Congress in this city, to whom
all the world will look up with the tho't
that these men are the greatest six men
on the western continent. The peo-
pie have at least made up their minds to
this that an election is an election and
the beaten party must submit until next
time. The people mean that this rebel
zion shall be put squarely down. And if
this principle iseueeestablished, Ibelieve
we are to have hundred years of such
prosperity as the world has never known.
When we only learn this lesson properly,
that treason, insurrection and violations of
law are not the modes of healing political
disappointments, we shall be peaceful and
happy, and shall be faithful to ourselves,
our children, our principles, and our God.
After Mr.. Greeley, who spoke with much
force and animation, and who. was fre-
quently applauded, had closed, Mr.. Milli-
ken offered the following preamble and res
olutions:
WHEREAS, Human Slavery for long
series of years has endeavored to subvert
and to great extent has perverted the
pure doctrines of liberty, upon which our
Government was founded, has demoralized~
our statesmen and corrupted our political
organizations, has for many years engross-
cd the public attention to the exclusion of
the many questions essential to the welfare
OF tine nation; and
WHEREAS, Atlast grown to the dimen-
sions of gigantic monster, it has insolent-
ly attempted to overthrow the institutions
of freedom and the Governments of a nigh
ty nation and with all the cruelties of
civil war has desolated our land, has MUIR
.dered the fathers and sons of a generous
bGt Just people, and has exposed us to in
suit and contempt from the despotic rul-
ers among the nations of the world and
WHEREAS, It's the only pretext for dis
loyalty at the North, the only strength of
our enemies at the South, and the sympa-
thizerso treason to humanity everywhere
and is the only obstacle to the final settle
ment of oil questions arising out of the
Rebellion, and the ultimate and complete
restoration of sectional harmony, fraternal
concord, and national unity therefore,
Reroluea, That while realizing that the
armies of the Rebellion must be put down
by the soldiers of the Republic, it is the
duty of the Union party solemnly for us
do declare that it will henceforward strug-
gle for the total, absolute, and permanent
overthrow of human Slavery in the United
States, by the exertion of every power at
the disposal of the State and Federal Gov
ernments and citizens under the Constitu-
tion, thereby securing the emancipation of
every human slave and the protection of
the personal liberty of every human be-
ing, untainted with crime, in the United
States and every State and Territory there
of, and by nominating only such candi-
dates as are jealous in the prosecution of
these great ends.
Alderman Dayton supported the reso-
lutions. He-said slavery would never ex-
ist again as an institution. He argued
against compromise and in favor of com
plete emancipation.
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