The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-11-03
MAGs MEETING OF LOYAL VETERANS.
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Five Thousand People in Attendance
At Cooper Institute.
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Addresses by General Fremont, Major
General Cochrane, Stephen L.
Woodford and Others.
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TOrchlight Procession and Sc
renade.
MAsss MEETING OF LOYAL VETERANS.

mass meeting Of loyal veterans was held last even.
ing in Cooper Inshtute. In accordance with the an
nouncement the people began flock towards the ap-
pointed place at early hour that when the time
for calling the meeting to order hand the spacious
interior was densely packed with earnest attentive
and enthusiastic audience The gathering was notice.
able for the order which preserved throughout with
the exception that the speakers gave utterance to
sentiments which lay near to the hearts Of tho
dors, they broke out into enthusiastic. clamoreus
applause FOR a moment. afterwards subsding
into the most perfect quiet and attentiveness
The front part Of the hail. nearest the STAGE
pied by gentlemen accompanied by ladies-the latter
forming small proportion Of those presenwhie the
space back crowded with the masses Every scat,
every inch Of standing room filed with people.
STAGE
was draped with tho national colors, which fes-
tooned gracefully the rear The speakers stand
ovorspread with the Stars and Stripes while ranged about
and in front of the platform stacks Of musets
crossed above which displayed standards OF red
and white stripes alternate, bearing the initials IN Y.
s. N. G." Upon the platform were the gentlemen Of the
committee. the speakers Of the evening and other dis
tinguished gentlemen.
Great enthusiasm marked the whole course Of the
meeting The greatest feeling was apparent each Of
the speakers successfully addressed those assembled
As elicitous striking remark found inference
the large audience would burst forth into the oudest and
most vociferous cheering, which hardly died
It's echoes would be taken up again and again. louder
than before Music agreeably filled up the interim be-
the speeches, the national airs which were dis
coursed receiving their due share OF popular applause
At eght O'Clock General CocHRANE called the meeting
ORDER and after brief Introductory speech presented
General FREMONT TO the audience.
GENERAL FREMoST's SPEECH
General FREMONT spoke as follows:-
warmly for the cordially you have expressed towards
Our meeting tonight Is an incident in the move
ment to enable our citizen soldiers to assume their
proprate place before the country During the war the
people were represented by. the armies which
they had sent to the field. Actual war being
their Congress alone Cheers, The questions which
were involved in the not yet settled the coud
tons Of permanent peace are surely not yet adjusted
citizens to give TO the people the aid OF organ
lied in their dcterm nation to sus ain Congress- II
1T that you whom the country Is indebted for
Its safety, should have distinct voice In settling these
questions and in pronouncing upon these conditions
is go dear to every American. You LETT
your families and abandoned avenues Of wealth
and % s ana you . ave % e
that sacrifices be not wasted. Soldiers the peo
Pile have confidence in you. They grateful to you
national security they would take pleasure in fostering
and maintaining the military spirit which is but
another word for patriotism They feel now that they
need your assistance in bringing end the agations
which disturbing the sou.y, and which seriously
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and the ablest ineilects against these agita
tons But they want to know what the feeling Of the
North finally is and upon what basis they propose
to stand. When they satisfied about this when
they know that they cannot have what they have
70 something else and occupy themselves in
repairing the waste which they have brought down upon
the country But i is absolutely necessary that the
front in reference TO the policy decides 70 pursue
wards the South The hes. interests Of the great city
tho centre OF the wealth and enterprise of the
country arc nearly concerned Ia Q speedy solution
Of our national difficulties being reached The
Ssahy employment. in the West and Southwest rhs
South wishes 10 build Its railroads. and the North
this continent Such renewal Of the development OF
national would prove the sures means Of
absorbing the exc,emcnts Of the war; TO promote the
general prosperity and to pay the debt On tho It'll
OF this month the decision Of the people Of New York
these questions will be made known the day
old place long withheld. ON that day Victor EuI,nan.
uel makes his formal entry into free Venice part Of
again free Appansc The force Of progress has also
been ut work here among Snail not your
complete T. This great city should certainly be in har
centre. II IL the centre OF It's wealth and It's
enterprise; IL should also be the representative
OF It's spirit Of liberty its Individual
instances abundant to show her true character
Her merchant pr bestow fortunes upon the people,
great libraries for their instruction have been collected
and given to them 1t Is by her votes that her real
character Is made known and her influence felt abroad
She istoo young not 10 be generous and too powerful
embodied idea Of her growing wealth, her power
and her wondrous vitality See her here, she
stands by the shore OF the sea- resplendent in
the light from the east She needs heather
attributes; the facts Of day wonderful than
fables Her hand rests on lightnngs potent than
any Of Jovcs thundebos; The ends of earth are in
unison with her, thrilling 10 her magnetic touon Be.
hind her adatc her iron roads which penetrate
plains and richer mountains surely such city should
be the foremost representative OF freedom aud OF Justice
will only add that this Is not contest Of parties is
simply struggle for tho triumph OF the feeling OF the
North, the American idea, as i Is termed In Europe
General Fremont concluded amid great applause
GENERAL woonroRD's sfKEcH.
General wooDFoRD followed. He said that the issue
In the present canvass was very simple aud sharply
feed. II was simply the question whether after having
logged rebellion the held should permit dsos
men 70 insult the old flag, and rule tie nation General
Woodord continued at some length defending the right
Of the Northern people TO preserve the unity and exs
tencc Of the country and earnestly mpresslng upon
In tho coming election.
Major. PAsGBoas and other speakers followed after
which the meeting adjourned with three cheers for the
loyal veterans
IN THK oPrS AIR,
In front OF the institute meeting carried under
the auspices Of tho Twentieth Ward Fenton Wood
ford Campaign Club, OF those who unable
admission Tho attendance here numbered about
fifteen hundred persons in the midst OF which
CONSPICUOUS number Of transparencies carried by the
members OF the above club The notable OF these
bore the inscriptons--" Treason Made Odous,r Our
Policy Not the Bread and Butter Brigade "Ncw
York Good for $780, etc Tho club was accom-.
panied BY band q music To this gather
ing addresses were made by Colonel Van Ripper, "
r. Brown, Colonel Everett, Of Ohio, Colonel A. J. Will
lard Major General Devcus Of Massachusetts and Others
spirit OF enthusiasm here manifested equal to