Year: 1863

Fhe boyal Nat1onal League


We direct the attention of our citi
zens to an organization which is rapidly
forming in this city under the above
name.


The enrolment ! let, copy Of which
is exposed for signatures in the Office
Of the Evening Post, bears the follow
ing title, which clearly explains the
purpose of the League:


awe the undersigned, citizens of the United States
hereby associate ourselves under tho aud title of
the LOYAL NATIONAL LEAGUE;
"We pledge ourselves to an unconditional loyalty TO
10 the Goyornment Of the United States
ing support Of its efforts to suppress the rebeon and
to spare no endeayor to maintain unirtpaired the


rhe primary object Of this Leaghe is and shall he to
bnd together all loyal men, Of all trades and profess
sions, In common union TO maintain the power glory
and integrity of the nation"


Among the various programmes and
constitutions Of loyal leagues, and IN
ion clubs, we have seen none which SO
we'll supplies the great need Of the time
and so thoroughly answers the broad
name Of League as this. There is no
money test of entrance, the only condi-
ton of admission being a willingness to
sign and abide by simple and compre-
heusive pledge Of loyalty to the Govern.
ment aud to the idea as we'll as the sub
stance of National Unity.


Now that the most poisonous of the
doctrines of the Calhounites, those doc.
triues in which the Southern rebels seek
their apology for the most heinous crime
in history, are boldly put forth by reb.
ell syhpathizers, it seems appropriate
that loyal men should band together
to maintain the substance aud adhere to
the glorious idea of NatioHal Unity.


General Rosecrans, in his patriotic
general order issued to the western army
on the birthday of Washington, happily
expresses this idea: a'r-a
"out of respect for the memory Of Washington wl,osc
nlustrious virtues we revere, lwhope WISDOM Justice
self-sarricing devotion to national uy we resolve to
initiate ourselves and teach chdren--we will to-day
renew 70 each other the pledges already given by our
past tolls and suerngs and which many of our brave





will transmit the freedom ikert from Washington
unmpaired to the posterity of nation aid ndiris-
tbte or VIII perish In its defence bequeathing name
glorious to em and terrible tn the rebel conspirators
whose vile deceptons have arrayed our brethren against
u.s."


This is the battle4cry of the brave
patriots who, with their breasts to the
foe, stand between the nation and the
PARTICLES who seek its ruin.


That national unity which they pledge
themselves to maintain on the battle
field, let US all pledge ourselves to de-
fend at home. Thus will our brothers
in the field be encouraged to feel that
their privations and sufferings are not
in vaib, and that the lives they offer up
at the shrine of their Oouhtfy's unity
shall not be useless sacrifice.


There Is strong feeling in the pub.
lie mind on this subject, and action has
been delayed in the expectation that
some of the organizations now project.
ed would build on this broad founda
tion-but up to. this time no plan has
presented itselfso broad and desirable
in its purpose as the present.


We DO not doubt that the beague thus
initiated in this city wilspread thro eve
ry village, town hamletand in the loyal
States, encouraging the loyal and strik
ing terror to the hearts of the traitors





who, not daring to take open part with
rebels in arms, still stand beneath tho
fostering folds of the national banner,
and seek TO break in pieces that unity
Of, which it is the honored emblem, and
without which it is meaningless rag


1t is proposed to take large hall with
convenient reading and committed rooms
in some central place, where the mem
bers of the League may at meet all
times, and where, at stated periods. lee
lures and addresses will be delivered.