National Union Celebration at Union Square
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Author, Unknown) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from National Union Celebration at Union Square: September 17, 1866 From the admirable reports in the World, Daily News, Daily Times, Herald and Sun, the following general account of the Celebration is taken. The New York Herald of September 18, says: - Yesterday was a day long to be remembered by every lover of his native land; long to be remembered as the anniversary of that day on which the Federal Constitution was adopted and made the safeguard of republican liberty by our fathers; long to be remembered when the memory of that eventful struggle through which we have just passed, but from which we have not yet entirely recovered, is recalled; for it was the anniversary of the day when McClellan, as his country´s champion, beat back the enemy upon the hard fought field of Antietam. The day endeared to us by such recollections will be especially remembered by every citizen of New York devoted to the sacred principles of the Constitution and the Union. It was the occasion for a most decided and hearty response to those principles. The sentiment of the city, the Union-loving, Constitution-adhering city, found utterance last evening at Union square, in tones so decided and unfaltering as to impart renewed energy to the contest, and to dispense hope and courage throughout the entire Union. From fifty thousand throats went forth, as in a common voice, a manifestation of the sympathy of the masses with the good old cause - the perfect Restoration of the Union. Fifty thousand hearts beat responsive to the declaration of those principles so dear to every loyal man. New York never saw such a demonstration before; it will be many years ere she witness such another. It was a demonstration which testified the popular approbation of that policy which can alone preserve the Union for which we have so struggled, for which so many sacrifices have been made, more strongly, more unreservedly, more heartily than anything yet has evidenced. New York, the brain and centre of the nation, speaks in thunder tones by this monster mass-meeting, silencing the discordant voices of Maine and Vermont crying still for war. The surroundings and decorations of the meeting were quite unequalled as a spectacle. But better than the speakers, or the bands, or the blazing fireworks, was the sight of the thronging thousands who gathered under the statue of Washington, and pledged an invincible determination to put down, finally and forever, the last enemies of the Union which he and the fathers framed. New York cries aloud to all the nation - Put down the last enemies of the Union! The attendance was by far greater than that of any political gathering ever before assembled in this city. As early as half-past six o´clock people began to wend their way to the place appointed, and soon the streets in every direction were lined with the moving crowds. By seven o´clock the open space around the southern end of the square was blocked up with people, so as almost to preclude the possibility of locomotion in any direction. But it was not until the hour for opening the meeting had arrived, and the processions had begun to crowd in, that the gathering attained anything like its fullest proportions. At that time, when the speakers of the evening emerged from the Maison Doree and were escorted to the grand stand, there was a solid, compact wall of upturned anxious faces, extending from Fourth avenue on one side as far as University place on the other. All along Broadway and up Fourth avenue to the northern limits of the Square, was occupied and blocked with the living mass. Thousands, not able to secure advantageous positions in the crowds upon the square and in the streets, betook themselves to the buildings overlooking the Scene, the windows, balconies, and even roofs of which they invested. By competent judges the assemblage was estimated at fully one hundr
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