Year: 1863

alton in New York-.The Comments
of the New York world upon IT..
Its Fragrant Reputation Abroad.


Our 30 called National Union Association Il
becoming quite famous The New York World
of Friday. one of the most prominent journals Of
that city, thus honors it with notice:


THE PLANS or THE LOYAL LEAGUES.


Mr. Forney has already confessed that the ob
ject Of the Loyal League is to elect Republican
President in 1864 There are other Leagues ir
Cincinnati equally indscreet, who confess thai
the Leagues object is to carry the intervening
elections, and to organize so as to carry them BY
b.oodshed, it necessary.


At meeting of the National Union Associa
ton, last Friday evening at the metropolitan
Hall in Cincinnati, Judge Woodruff. the Chair
man of the meeting, made a speech. After at
tempting to remove the general impression thai
the Association made up of men without
character or reputation in the community; and
after urging the necessity Of gaining the conf.
dence of such men were truly loyal; he closed
with the following language:


The American flag must be yindicated, the
supremacy of the Constitution and the Laws
maintained. and the election carried even at the
price Of blood-for upon this everything de
pended"


Mr.. Hancock, in the course of some remarks





which the restraints of his profession appeared
but they soon made way for the Hancock him
self, who proceeded to declare that che believed
mob law was wholesome sometimes"


The meeting seems principally to have been
occupied with a discussion of the character and
speeches of two soldiers who had, under the in
huence of liquor, made Inhammatory speeches
and exhibited their arms in the hall on previous
occasion. A Col. Guthrie seemed determined to
aEa fhar of Assn
citation.


He said that unless the Association adopted the
resolution, some one similar. that he could not
regard the Association as fayOrng law and or
der, and it might as we'll at once be abandoned.
Look around, said he. and ask yourselves where
are the audiences you had few nights agOr
Look at the few members now present. and ten
ask, what is the of the changef The an
swer is the exhibitions which you have had here,
which have disgusted peaceable and law abiding
members. who unwilling to sit and listen to
such things. He, for one, would not sit and
listen to any one encouraging mob violence


A Captain Mussey then made speech. in
which, like the Times, of this city. he said that
the conscrption act would be enforced, and he
expected the Association would have to enforce
il. He said they must organize in military com
panies and do it at once, and be ready for every
man who cried out peace.


Colonel Guthrie informed the meeting that the
League was purely military, and drilling nightly.
and was already prepared for any emergency.


A resolution was adopted appointing delegates
to meet with other Leagues to organize a
Grsnd Council of the Union League of the United
States at Chicago OF the 29th.


A Professor Allyn, OF the Wesleyan Female
Seminary teacher of young ladies-made the
concluding address He was opposed to opening
the doors of the Association to reporters. He
demanded secrecy for their proceedings. He said
that it was a bitter pill for him TO swallow last
fall when he learned that the Copperheads had
carried the election, but he had to grin and bear
it; "but this time we must make it all right, and
carry the election by any means necessary TO do
It," [Applause.


We have refrained from garnshing this brief
report of the doings Of the Cincinnati Loyal
Leaguers with the beasty profanity and filthiness
by which some of their speeches were charac-
teriZed, although to have dobe would have
demonstrated the necessity of Judge Woodruff's s
aborous effort to prove the Association respectable
and its members persons of decencY and good
reputation. One of the plans which were
broached at previous meeting, was "for all the
members of the Association, and all other Union
uIen, to prohibit all fhe newsboys from carrying
and selling opposition paper; to note every
man that takes and reads il, ard forbid him en-
tering your company; give him no employment;
run him from your midst; turn him out OF your
church. Mark every man or woman at your
boarding house who takes reads it; make il
too hot for them TO stay there-turn them out.


This and the speeches which recommend the
carrying of the spring elections even "at the
price of blood or "by any means necessary to
do it, sufficiently exhibit the character of these
Loyal Leaguers, and their purposes and plans.
OF the ultimate result of all such schemes as
these there need be no fear. The anarchists and
revolutonists of the North are certain to fall,
and fall ruinousIy. as if they had already swung
from the gallows which they are striving to erect
for their political opponents. Butt there be any
law abiding citizen. any property holder and tax
payer. and true lover of his country. into this
organization, whose secret managers cloak their
schemes with the pre- cIesson of a superior loyalty
and hope to make the patriotism of the unsuspi-
cious work out the success of the most unscrupu-
lous partisans that ever disgraced free country,
they may learn from their Cincinnati fellow
leaguers what sort of work it is for which they
have enlisted. They may consider now, if they
have not considered hitherto whether they are
prepared to take out of the hands OF the Govern
ment the business of the enforcement of law;
whether they are willing to carry elections "by
any means;" whether they will join military or
CARNATIONS for the purpose OF carrying the spring
elections, "even at the cost of blood"