Year: 1862

Inc great war meeting. held 10 Bostor last


week was addressed by Edward Everett and


Robert G. Winthrop, The former concluded


his address with the following reminlscence:


"Now, fellow citizens. there remaips no al.


tentative but short and vigorous, OF a protract.
60 ana ianguishing prosecution Of the war
Soail u DO the trst, or shall IL be the last
WIN you let 1t go down, a legacy of sacrifice
ana sorrow to your children--or will you not
rather finish 1t this very yesr2 You can If you
WIFI you nave the means and the men, If you
Dut choose to employ them. Irejoice to behold
In this great outpouring of the peonle. The
assurance that you are determined, that as far
as depends on you the work shall be Quickly
done; and in lieu Of any words of exhortation
on my part, which know you do not need, let
me give you "reminiscences from the time that
tried mems souls.


,boston, as you we'll know, was, in the year
i"o and part of l776, occupied by Britieh
troops, and besleged by the American army
under washington. The great question was
now the enemy could be best assailed, and
among tue measures proposed was the lombard
ment OF the town, then almost wholly built of
wood The richest man In Boston, J1hn Han
COCK, was then President of the Continental
Congress-, and as such transmitted the orders
OF thas body to Washington You will notice
the resolution said he In his letter, relative
70 an attack on Boston. This passed after a
most serious debate In committee of the whole
House and the execution was referred TO YOU
May God croUn your attempt with success!
most heartily Wish 1t, though individually I
may Do the greatest sufferer The fact IA,
AZ ms property consisted ofreal estate in Boston
me destruction OF the town would have made
him beggar Fellow citizens, he was the M.
cupsnt Of yonder house. Were he living he
might from his window witness all this oloTions
sighti his eyes would swim with tears OF graft.
tude to heaven &c he beheld yonder banner OF
the Union floating In the breeze; his ears would
drink with rapture the patriotic strains that
nave oheered us this afternoon. MAY the pro
ceedings OF this day and this hour be such that
his pure spirit, and that of all his santed assooi
ates, the Adamses, and franklin, and peerless
Washington himself, may look down upop us
with approbationp' :"


Mr.. WINTHROP concludes as followa:


"Let us remember that we are not engaged
in war OF the North against The South. bpt a
war OF the Nation against those who have risen
up to destroy 1t. Let us keep our eyes and our
hearts steadily fixed upon the old fsg of our ia.
thers-the same to-day as when it was first
nitea IN triumph at Saratoga, or first struck
down In madness at Sumter. That flag tells
our whole story. We must do whatever we do,
and whatever is necessary to be done, with the
paramount purpose of preserving il, untorn
and untarnished, In all its radiance and In ali
Its just Significance. We must be true 10 every
tint OF its red, white, and blue.


behold II at this moment streaming from
every window watch tower, and cupola of our
fair city! It has star for every State. !, Let
US resolve that there shall still be State for
every star. Lot this be our watchword. IN
speech and In song, and still more In the whole
CIVIL and military policy of the war-sA star for
every State, and STATE for every s.ar'-and
oy the blessing of God, and our own strong
arms, we may once more see that Asg waving
In triumph from the Atlantic to the Pacific.


But let us not forget that the time is short
that what We have to do must be done
quickly, and let us make q short, sharp, siren.
uous effort, and finish the work at Whatever
Immediate sacrifice of treasure or of blood. -
We owe 1t to ourselves--we owe 1t to the world
TO bring this terrible struggle to decisive
issue with the least possible delay. "NoW or
never" was the legend upon one of the banners
which just now caught my eye. 1t Is nov or
never with the Union; now or never with the
CONSTITUTION; now or never with the wide area
Of our ranged republic. Let US take q lesson
OF desperate enegry from the rebels themselves
yes, or from the prince of rebels, as he cries
70 bis aPostate host in the immortal epic
awake. ariaa. or ha fnravar fallenu