Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1869-11-26
BOYS IN Blue.
GATHERING OF THE CLANS.

The Rival Commanders Collector
Eoswell, Councilman 1.seon, et al,
Adams. Nett. and w. A. Cook ne.
nounced-The Executive Board Re.
naoyed-The Wix ed school QuestlOn-
Ms. Lockwood and the BABY.
Ninth street, between Pennsylvania avenue
and y street, was alive last evening, with
martial sights and sounds. Whence those
drums and ifes? Whence those men in military
| attire? Had Spain resented the gunboat seizure?
| OF had the idea OF a volunteer military organi
zaton Tor the District been perfected to its first
parade? The officers fitting to and fro looked
dusky, and the numerous gasligbts threw sr,lon-
| dor on their uniforms, but iaIled to relieve the
! s"mbre Rue OF the eountenances Of the wearers
~. reporter was puzzled with the above
| thoughts as he witnessed the Unusual activity;
/ and ..marching on he followed the armed
crowd into Union League Hall, where he found,
| besides the military, whose rear he brought up,
quite number OF white and coiored citizens.
The assemblage was scattered about in groups,
the centre Inquire OF each OF which was anxiOUsly
PersuIng The EVENING STAR. Boldly our re-
porter ventured near and discovered that the
object OF the meeting was 70 define whether the
quarters of the Boys IN Blue should be AT the
corner of Second street east and A street south
| or at No. ID FOur-and-a-half street; whether
Grant or Adams shall command. IL appears
that the Executive Board of this organic alton
have been for some time at logger-heasls with
| their Commanding General, \. Grant" and
within the past few days issued an order to a
j. IL.
to assEme command of the organi cation ssyice
, &c neral y. Grant suspended and under articles
of impcac hment." Grant couldn't see it; and
called meeting last evening. Adams then,
through the STAR, warned all officers of the
h in IL. not TO attend the meeting under pain
OF losing their commissions. They met, how
ever-a considerable number of them at least
ard that explains the fife and drum, &c. &c.
There was A. Grant in the chair. and before
him large representation of the off GERS OF the
organization in fun uniform, besides goodly
number of citizens. Collector Boswell came i'll,
and in passing up the aisle was greeted with
cries of .'Aint you afraid you'll lose your COM
mission" &c, to which he replied. ssOh, I'm all
i fsht anG cordial mee5ing between ,6 MIN and
Hughes, of the Fifth Ward; to the chairman,
who asked, did you get your orders to-day,
Captain?' Hughes replied, in Metamora style,
''Sir. you have sent for me and have come"
Perry Carson, %. ID. Barrett, T.. $. Atkinson, III.
NJ. Knight, besides Others, were there, and last
but not least, Mrs. DIR. lockwood with her
baby i'm Blue was there. The members of the
Executive Board who were present-Messrs. III,
NJ. Knight. Colin Cursor, y. ID. Barrett, j. W.
Green. ID. w. Hughes and Benjamin Giant
were invited and took seats on the platform
and the meeting, which was expected to be
stormy one, opened. But "Pdrtariuat NoRtes,n
&c.
As soon as a. Grant assumed the chair, with
W. $. Fletcher as Adjutant General, Mrs. Lock
wood appeared, presenting an omnOus looking
paper TO the last named Official, which turned
out to be bill against j. Bell Adams for use of
the hall on previous occasions. On being in
formed that the present party was not respon-
sible, she pertly inquired, "WhO was then?,
and stated that she had been informed by Mr..
Adams that there would be no meeting there
that evening. 1t was amusing to see the bill of
q brought up. As the Adjutant General stood
up in routine business way to read the bin afore-
said, A. Grant became awfully nervous, and
raped so violently to order that the Adjutant
simmered Immediately.
Innumerable military orders, both those of
Generals" Grant and Adams, were read after
which Lieutenant" Joyce opened the bali with
preamble and resolutions THAT the positions
ON the Executive Board held by Captain VIM.
Beall, and Captain Shinar be declared vacant.
and a new election be held at the next regular
meeting; that We have the utmost confidence in
the President of our Executive Board, William
Penn Clarke, and we hereby pledge Ourselves 10
sustain him during his continuance i'm office:
that General J. Il. Adams, having shown himself
to be the weak tool OF wicked men, is hereby re-
qnested to tender his resignation as an Ger of
this OIgaUiZation.'
.f. -. w. Green said that the reason the conf
missions were unsigned was on account Of the
nnpeelllty OF the Executive Board, who held a
meeting ON Tuesday night last instead of the
usual night, Thursday. He had heard Adams
denounce Mott on the street and everywhere.
Colin Crusor was astonished TO hear some of
the members of the Executive Board here pum-
melting the other members Of that Board. The
members here who did il were some whom he
knew himself helped in meeting to put W. T..
Mott where he is, though they denounced him
here. lie then defended the Executive Board
from the aspersions that had been cast upon
them. He advised the Commanding General To
20 before the Executive Board and answer the
charges, and then come out innocent, if he
was
The Chair stated that he would properly
appear before any properly organized board.
MIR. Cursor thought it very late day for the
General to find out that the Executive Board
Wa Improperly organized.
George W. Hatton asked Mr.. CrusOr If any
charges had ever been preferred before TIE
Board against General Grant; to which Mr.
CrusOr replied in the negative.
The resolutions were then adopted.
Collector Boswell was then called for and
pitched into William T.. Mott fearfully. Mott
he said, in the dark days of Republicanism in
this city never showed his head, but now that
the party was triumphant was a bold Republic
can. '.YOu," said he, ''want a new man at the
cad of this city, and the people want the same
thing ICIies Of That's o;n"that's so.,l He
impeached it should be the Executive Board.
q. w. HattOn was the next speaker, and he
alluded to the fact that when the Boys in Blue
were fi rs started tar they were then called and
lLaughter.l But about the LIST OF last June they
were thought by everybody to be Boys i'm Blue.
When the work was done, however, they were
treated by some officials as the Bows i'm Rags.
he received a notice to attend a meeting once
OF the Executive Board, but he declined, as he
had suspicious; Now that the Office OF the EN-
William A. Cook (whom he characterized as
the .'Janitor of the City Hall,'') he saw nothing
more IN il than the fact that he Cook
wanted to control the Boys in Blue. Although
he had been characterized himself as a traitor,
he would always battle for the universal right,
independent Of the opinions Of anybody. He
thought the time had come when the Republi-
can patty in this city should stand up for the
rights they won in elections. He then referred to
the fact of Rev. j. Sella Martin leading his child
TO a white school like lamb to the slaughter,
and characterized the action as a blind, the re-
suit Of some suggestion Of the ''Jantor;' but
he thought, while there were white schools, they
were for white children, and the colOred schools
for colOred children. Let the legislative bodies
remedy that, and let cOlored people not injure
their race by butting against the law i'm trying
to push their children into white schools
When appropriations were made for the people
without reference to classes, then such things
might be in order. He might want TO send a
child to Franklin school, but he never would at
tempt il till classes were equal. He would not
30 far forget his manhood as to subject a child
of his to insults and maltreatment simply to OBJ
tain notoriety for himself before the public.
lApplause.J
Sir. Joyce then offered resolution, which was
adopted. looking toward the formation of mil
itary organization.
A torchlight procession to visit the President,
Vice President, and Speaker Blaine was or
dered for the night of December 18th next, and
the meeting adjourned.
THE SUIT AGAINST THE CORPoRATIoN.-A
few DAYS since we noticed the fact that Bar &
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