The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1867-12-19
Gen. Grant the Candidate Of
the Loyal People OF Sew
York.
Immense Mass Meeting at the coop.
er Institute.

LIDO puDlic IeellnR IN lhV0F OF thl
nomination of Gen. Grant for tb,
Presidency, which has been randi,
increasing in this vicinity for som,
time past. eliminated in a grant
mass meeting at the Cooper Insti
tute last evening. held in respons,
to the call from large number o.
our most prominent merchants
bankers, end business men repre-
senting both Of the leading parties
AS the first public demonstration
in favcr OF General Grant tor Pres
ident it was great success. Sci
dom has the Cooper Institute beer
filled with, a larger audience or ont
better representing the various
classes ofpopulation, than the ont
assembled there last night. A gooC
number of ladies were present.
The hall was tastefully decorated
Tor the occasion with the stars and
stripes and the flags Of the leading
nations of The earth. Suspended NJ
the rear of the platform was a life
size portrait OF General Grant, while
in front of the speakers desk O
plaster cast of the hero represent,
him sitting at his ease in his chair
smoking the inevitable cigar
Among the notices inscribed on
the walls were, "Tbe Constitution
lit lives forever" THE Union-il
must and will be preserved &c.
The following, among otherprom
inent citizens, occupied seats upon
the platform: Peter Cooper, A.
I. Stewart, William Il. Dodge,
Moses Ii. Grinnell, Marshall O.
Roberts, Minthorne Tompkins, L.
II. Claim, 4. Il. Jaffray, DR.. Mar.
tin Paine, Judge Slossen, Judge
Bonncy, Judge Hilton, II. ii.
Rice, S. B Crittenden, William
Libbey, Rufus F. Andrews, Super
intendent Kennedy, General vii.
liam Hudson Lawrence, Hon. Il. e.
Benedict, Gen. Daniel Z. Sickles,
Gen. Cochrane, Il. Caylus, Colonel
Ethan Allen, Hon. Lyman Ire.
maine, Waldo Hutchins and Gov.
Ward, OF New Jersey.
The meeting was called 10 order
at S:l5 o'clock by Hon. VIM. Il.
Dodge, who expressed his gratifi.
cation at seeing the large hall
crowded o half an hour before the
time appointed for the meeting.-
They had come together, he said,
TO give the spontaneous approval of
tho nomination of Gen. Grant, for
the Presidency. [Applause.] The
nomination was unanimously in
dorsed. Speeches were made by
A. Il. Stewart, Judge Hilton, f. B..
Cutting, Gen. Sickles, Lyman Ire.
maine, and others.
OUTSIDE DEMONSTRATIONS.
Owing to the coldness of the at
mosphere out of doors, the demon
stration in front of the Cooper
Institute was confined to a pyro.
technical display, which included
a piece surmounted by tho word
Grant supported by a galaxy
of flags, with the eagle resting Oh
the shield, and underneath the
words, "For PRESIDENT" a number
of rockets. blue lights, Union Ian
terms, red fire, Drnmmond lights,
&c. AT no time during the evening
was there any large crowd out
side. There were no arrange
ments made for holding outside
meetings on account of the sever
ity of the weather. N. Y. Times
Dec. 9TH.
The following are the resolutions
which were adopted at the great
New York Grant meeting:
"RcSolved, That the American
people have ever been true to the
instincts oil patriotism in maintain
ing the rights and honor Of the ma
tion; and that the Acknowledgement
ofdislinguished services in the ma
tional cause can not fail to be re-
garded as a grateful duty by a free
and intelligent people.
"ReSolred, That the brilliant
services rendered by General UIys-
ses S. Grant, at period ofimmi-
nent peril in the existence of the
American Union, have shed i'm
perishable renown on the Amer.
lean name and character, and can
never be forgotten by a people
alive to the blessings of institu.
tions under whose benign infu.
ence they have become free and
united nation.
"ReSolred, That in the judgment
of this meeting, representing all
the great interests of national in
dustry, the public sentiment of the
country Enthusiastically indicates its
choice for the Office Of the Chief
Magistrate; and that, in accordance
thorewith, and relying with per-
feet confidence on the sagacity,
judgment, persistent energy and
unfaltering patriotism so striking
ly displayed throughout his whole
civil and military career, we pre-
sent General Ulysses S.. Grant as
the candidate of the loyal Union
people of New York, for the office
of President of tho United States.
"Re$olved, That the President OF
this meeting has authority to ap'
point twenty.four citizens, who,
with himself, shall form a stand
ing Committee, with power to take
measures to effeetuate the objects
and purposes of this meeting"
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