Proceedings of the Great Peace Convention, Held in the City of New York June 3d, 1863
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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Great Peace Convention, Held in the City of New York June 3d, 1863: Speeches, Addresses, Resolutions, and Letters From Leading Men Cooper Institute, it radiated far up and down and to the right and left, filling all adjoining streets, until those upon its extremes could form but a meager conception of the scene between them and the grand center. In the reports in the New York Daily News, in the writing of which nearly the entire reportorial force of the establishment was engaged, the endeavor was to give to those outside the city, an idea of its immensity. But, starling with, and carrying out, a system of extensive condensation, they tilled five pages of the News, and had enough left over to fill another paper. There were in all five prominent platforms from which fifty prominent men addressed as many of the people as could be packed within hearing of their several voices. The principal stand was in the large Hall of Cooper Institute, and from the reports of the proceedings there and at the other stands, we make the following selections : Stand No. 1. The Hall of the Cooper Institute was filled with a large audience at an early hour. The greatest enthusiasm prevailed among the vast assemblage, who listened to the eloquent discourse of music, national and operatic, until the regular speakers arrived. The American colors were thrown upon the speakers´ stand, the colors were also taste-fully festooned around the busts of the Nation´s patriots, also were suspended from the mottoes hanging from the walls. They were, as follows: The Constitution as It Is - The Union as It Was. Stand Firm! "The great issue before the country is this: Shall Abolition put down the Union or shall the Union put down Abolition?" - Henry Clay, 1851. "No Conscription for Opinion´s Sake." At 6 1/4 o´clock the densely thronged assembly was organized by Senator Lawrence, from Queens County, who, after the great applause had subsided, stated in a few words the object of the meeting, and announced for their chairman the Hon. F. C. Dinninny, of Steuben County. The proposed chairman was then introduced, and was received with thundering applause. Speech of F. C. Dinninny, of Steuben County. Friends and Fellow-Citizens: I thank yon for this kind reception, and for the honor you have Conferred upon me by calling me to preside over your deliberations upon this most important occasion. The object we have in view, and for the promotion of which we are here convened is of no factious character. It is to exercise the rights of freemen by temperate discussion and deliberation upon the important subject that now occupies and agitates the public mind, and inaugurate, if possible, measures to relieve our country from the dire calamity of an extended fratricidal conflict that is preying upon the vitals of our once happy hut now distracted nation. That object is pregnant with interest not only to ourselves, not only to every citizen of this at Republic, but to every human being, however high or humble that has an interest in the perpetuation of freedom and free institutions. Viewing the questions present- for our consideration, from the stand point that invests them with such vast importance, and realizing the responsibility we are assuming, it becomes our duty, and I doubt not it will be our pleasure to see to it, that no rash counsels prevail; for notwithstanding we ardently desire peace to be restored among the contending sections of the country without the further effusion of blood, yet we cannot accept or receive ´upon any but honorable terms, nor upon any terms that do not promise in the end to restore to us and posterity the blessings or the entire Union. About the Publisher
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