Official Report of the Great Union Meeting
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Excerpt from Official Report of the Great Union Meeting: Held at the Academy of Music, New York, December 19th, 1859 When the treasonable raid of John Brown and his followers against the lives and property of the people of Virginia became known in New York, the mass of the citizens of the great metropolis were horrified that any man could be found in the Northern States possessing so much temerity and reckless disregard of the peace and well-being of our nation as to organize an armed expedition, the success of which would be attended with wide-spread murder, rapine, and arson, and the substitution of political anarchy for established government. Though fully persuaded that the intelligent citizens of the Southern States of the Union confided in the patriotism of the masses of their brethren in the North, the public sentiment demanded in the city of New York - the commercial center of the New World - more than a tacit assurance of the horror with which our people regarded the crimes of Brown, and of their sympathy with the victims of his raid; and that a public expression of the sentiments of our people should be given which would leave no doubt in the minds of the Southern people of the real devotion of the North to the Union as it is. The General State Election was hold early in November, and the Municipal Election early in December. The political excitement always inseparable from these two elections rendered it injudicious, at an earlier date, to attempt to give such an expression of sentiment on the subject as the cause demanded, for the evident reason that the motives would have been misrepresented, and attributed to partisan purposes. Acting in accordance with this spirit, petitions were circulated for a Union meeting, and on the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 7th, a large number of citizens assembled at the Lafarge House to adopt measures for holding a grand mass meeting of the citizens of New York. James W. Beekman was called to the chair, and Joshua J. Henry appointed secretary. The Chairman, briefly stating that the object of the meeting was to take the preliminary steps toward holding a grand national meeting, said he was ready to entertain any motion that might be brought before them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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