great misfortune for their country, because at the end of it the air will be purified, and we shall have a sound body, instead of one subject to the symptoms of reversion. We shall have it by sacrifices of money, work, and life, and the Union will exist now as ever; and the North will be victorious. It has often been asserted that the almighty dollar was the only thing Americans cared about; but it is evident there is something higher in existence, and it wanted only the emergency to prove it. Who had seen the gallant Seventh Regiment marching yesterday, when called by their country, along Broadway, who does not understand that the love of liberty is predominant over every other thing, and can never be extinguished? There was no aristocracy about America or the Seventh Regiment. The merchant, the laborer, all classes went to work for the same great cause. One idea elevated them, one wish and one action—that is, the re-establishment of the Union; and, as they do, let us not look back upon the party; let us face future danger and future victory. If you do this, my fellow-citizens, then the future will be ours. SPEECH OF GUSTAVUS STRUVE. Mr. STRUVE was the President of the Garibaldi Committee, which sent Mr. Reventloro to Garibaldi to bring him money and assistance. He said::When we took the sword in our hands thirteen years ago, we did it on purpose of founding a republic, the ideal of which was America. We have arrived here, but the storms which have cast us upon this shore have not ceased yet, and again we have to fight for our ideal, which has been attacked by the enemy of freedom and civilization, by the slaveholding tyrant, the lickspittle of European despots, who thinks he can tear down this sacred flag. But we will carry this flag high in our hands, where those rebels never can reach it. We shall hold it more sacred, higher and more united than in Germany. In Germany, disunion was our curse; but in this country we are united with all people, who have found an asylum in their glorious country, and before all with the sons of the patriotic founders of the great republic which has adopted us. The same spirit which lived in us in 1848 is still living in us; it lives in me and you, in every one of us. The question is now between secession and Union, between liberty and slavery. Wherever we stand, if not on the side of Union and liberty, and we mean to defend it to-day as we did in the battle-fields of 1848. Brethren, nothing can help to-day but the sword, and you are going to take that sword, to live or die freemen, as we have been all during our life. Let us act, not speak. The freedom which is our palladium, shall be defended by he brave sons of Germany. [Mr. Struve seemed highly impressed with the object of his speech, and was repeatedly interrupted by the enthusiastic cheers of the crowd, which gave three other cheers for the gentleman when he left.] SPEECH OF RICHARD WARREN. He was a Minute Man, said Mr. WARREN, and having been called to say a few words to the Germans, he would give them his welcome and fellowship. He asked them to stand by this country, this new country of theirs. The cowardly acts perpetrated on Fort Sumter made the heart of every American, cemented with German strength, shout, Shame! shame! Shame! shame! would be said by every German in the Old World, when the news would get to them. To-day, what sight was this? The Almighty God looked down upon us. The spirit of Washington seemed to animate that statue yonder, as if to say to us, to be faithful to our country. If he (the speaker) had ten sons, they all should go and defend the country. German citizens-no more Germans, but American citizens-urged the speaker, stand to your home that you have adopted. There were more men there to-day than this South Carolina had. (Applause.) Come on, come on, Jefferson Davis; if you would, you would be hung. Tremble, traitors, as traitors have to tremble when the freemen of the country speak. Mr. Warren wound up with a eulogy on Major Anderson and his brave men, and he was enthusiastically cheered by the Germans. SPEECH OF IGNATZ KOCH. into the fight against the South. When the Germans Mr. IGNATZ Kосn said:-It was the duty to go left their country bleeding and covered with wounds received in the struggle for liberty, when thousands of the brave fellows were killed, they swore that liberty would be the war-cry of the future time. When the Germans came over to this country, the Americans did not understand them, and thought it was all the same whether a man was a German or a Dutchman; one reverend gentleman said in Mr. Koch's presence, that Hamburg was the capital of Dutchland! They were understood now by the Americans, and it was conceded that the Germans knew something else beside lager beer, and that they knew nothing better than freedom. In Germany there were good prospects for a republic, and nobody had destroyed them but the Germans themselves. This shall not be done with the second fatherland. The Germans had elected the present President, Mr. Lincoln, a man of liberal ideas, energy, and sincerity of purpose; while Mr. Buchanan-(cries of, “No politics!") The orator finished his remarks by asking for "three chairs for the Union!" by which he probably meant cheers," as the Union is not so tired yet as to want three chairs. SPEECH OF SAMUEL HULL. Massachusetts was in He alluded to the fact that yesterday (Friday) being the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, when the first blood was spilled in the Revolution, on that day the first blood was spilled in this war. Yesterday those noble grandsons of those who were engaged in the former struggle, were the first who spilled their blood in this war. the field, and New York would follow suit. Throughout the Revolution New York and Massachusetts fought side by side, and they would do the same in this war. This was a fearful crisis. Our enemy pretended to be fearful fighters, having had six months' preparation, but our men would meet them. The speaker made allusion to the events at Baltimore, and the report that the gallant Seventh Regiment had forced their way through the mob. (Cheers.) The news was not precise as yet, but he would say, that if the Baltimoreans had spilt one drop of blood of that gallant New York regiment, the resentment to follow would be terrible. (Tremendous applause.) I am just informed, said the speaker, that the rebels attacked them with brickbats, that the noble regiment forced their way through, and that three hundred of the insurgents were lying weltering in their gore. [This information, although a mere report, caused immediately an immense excitement.] SPEECH OF MR. O. 0. OTTENDORFER. the authority of our Government, the protection of our flag and property, and the correction of palpable errors, that have been the consequence of the machinations of men disloyal and inimical alike to the Union, and to their best interests and welfare. The events of the last few days have convinced all of us of the futility of the application of any further conciliatory measures, and that the people of the United States see nothing left them beyond an appeal to the ultima ratio, force; and in order to uphold the very existence of the nation, and to perpetuate the blessings of that Union under which we all alike, ourselves and the revolutionists, have prospered in so unprecedented a degree. But if force is once to be applied, let us do it vigorously, and without faltering and hesitation. As it is, we see no other alternative before us to secure to our posterity the blessings of the Union, than by asserting its indissolubility with arms in hand. [The speaker, who was vociferously cheered, again and again excused himself from continuing his remarks any further on account of indisposition, and withdrew amidst hearty plaudits.] At Stand No. 4, situated at the southwest corner of Union Square, the meeting was called to order by Mr. ROYAL PHELPS, who nominated Mr. Moses H. Grinnell as Chairman. This address was delivered by Mr. OSWALD OTTENDORFER, editor of the New York Staats Zeitung: In his introductory remarks he alluded to the occasion which had given rise to such an unparalleled and truly sublime display of enthusiasm and patriotic feeling. He maintained that we were here to save the groundwork of our institutions, in the acknowledgment of our lawful authorities, in the regard for the result of an election agreeable to a Constitution so universally admitted to be the pillars of our political existence, the bulwark of our liberties and our prosperity. Take away these pillars, or suffer their disintegration, and the whole proud structure will tumble into atoms. Look around, or peruse the pages of the history of the country, and tell us what is the secret of our progress and success? Political parties have contributed to the advancement of the country by means of the application of such principles, which in their opinion could be made instrumental to the furtherance of our general welfare. But this display of the activity and powers of parties could never have been successful without fealty to the cardinal principle, that every lawful election carries with it the duty of abeyance in its results, and that only from a strict adherence to this obligation and usage a party can maintain its ascendency, and command the confidence of the people. Unconditional obedience Fellow-citizens, said Mr. PHELPS, I have been to self-created laws, and implicit respect for the de- requested to call this meeting to order by nominating cision of the popular will, were the fruitful sources a presiding officer. At political meetings it is not of party power and prestige not alone, by the rea- always an easy task to name a chairman who will sons which have led the whole civilized world at once satisfy all; but this is not a political meeting-this to admire our system, and to fear or cheer our is a patriotic meeting, called for the purpose of supprogress. The proof of the capability of man for porting our legally elected President (Abraham Linself-government-as made apparent from our exam-coln), our Constitution, and our flag. For this purple-was gaining ground among the lovers of liberty of all nations, and presented an ever-active stimulus to our own people to contribute to its reassertion and confirmation. At this very hour we are here assembled for the very same object. As to the ways and means through which that end is to be reached, contrary opinions have not failed to be maintained, and in particular as to the recognition of the result of our late Presidential election. Such has been the case, and has been a fruitful source of evils of various descriptions. The refusal of such recognition in some parts of the country, the obstinate resistance to the constitutionally created authority, the stubborn denial of established and fundamental truths, the rejection of every conciliatory proposition, and many other shapes of opinion, found their adherents; and with some it was difficult to reason at all, or to persuade them that the application of power or the resort to revolution was not always the safest way to adjust difficulties or to retrieve wrongs. It is not long since that every shape and variety of opinions have found their adherents among our people. Everybody understood perfectly well, that the maintenance of our lawful authorities was imperative and ⚫ indispensable; very few, however, agreed as to the manner in which that end was to be achieved, and how in particular the pending revolution which had given rise to a renewal of all these diversities of opinions, was to be treated; but on one point all agreed, namely, that obedience to the constitutional powers was to be exacted at all events, either by means of persuasion or by force. Our meeting here is proof to the fact, that patriotism and loyalty have conquered prejudice and alienation, and that all are united in one common purpose, the maintenance of pose I know of no one who will give greater satisfaction to you than the old, well-known, and highly respected merchant, Mr. Moses H. Grinnell. (Cheers.) Those in favor of having Mr. Grinnell as our presiding officer will please say "Aye." A tremendous aye" was the response, and amid enthusiastic cheering, Mr. Grinnell assumed the duties of President of the meeting. 66 Mr. GRINNELL now said the next thing in order would be the nomination of Vice-Presidents, and the following list was accordingly read :— James Harper, Willard Parker, Luke Kiernan, Charles Butler, W. C. Wetmore, VICE-PRESIDENTS. J. H. McCunn, Robert C. Goodhue, Wm. H. Neilson, The meeting having now been fully organized, Rev. Dr. VERMILYEA offered the following prayer, the vast crowd standing with uncovered heads, and the most impressive silence being preserved :— PRAYER OF Rev. Dr. VERMILYEA. Infinite and adorable God! Thou art the allpowerful Creator, and in Thy providence Thou rulest over the nations and to the ends of the earth. We bow in presence of Thine awful majesty to supplicate Thy guidance and help amidst the agitations and perils of our beloved country. Wicked and designing men have plotted treason, and have now excited the passions of a portion of the people to levy war against that Constitution and Government Thou didst enable our fathers to establish; and blood has been shed in the causeless strife. Bring to nought, we beseech Thee, the counsels of the traitors, and restore amity to the people and peace and prosperity to the afflicted land. For this purpose give calm wisdom and inflexible decision to Thy servant, the President of the United States, and all his counsellors. May they shrink from no needful responsibility, but adopt promptly and execute firmly such means as may be most effectual in speedily enforcing the laws, maintaining the Constitution and Government, and punishing the disobedient. Bless the Army and Navy of the United States. May they be, what they were designed to be, the bulwark and defence of the country in this hour of trial. If it may be, spare further effusion of blood; but if not, then grant, O God, a heart of adamant to every officer and soldier and seaman, and help those who go forth to fight our battles for us, each man to do his duty. Bless the Governor and officers of this State, and the body of the people, who, after long fraternal forbearance, are now risen to assert the majesty of law, and uphold the best Government the world has ever seen. Give us perfect unity, and let all party diversities be hushed and forgotten. May the whole faithful portion of the people, now forced into this struggle for our political life and freedom, determine with fixed purpose never to falter nor give over until law and the Government are effectually vindicated and sustained. Though it may be for months or for years, though disaster and defeat may come, may they have the fortitude to suffer and the courage to persevere until this end is attained; for in it we believe are bound up the interests of freedom and of constitutional Government in this land and the world over, now and for generations yet unborn. Mercifully look upon this great city. Inspire its people in this sharp emergency with a spirit of obedience to law, and aid its magistrates in the preservation of social order among us. Let all classes realize the responsibility of this solemn crisis, and each one be submissive and gird himself to the work that may be required of him. Thus we pray most humbly and fervently, O our God. We acknowledge Thy supremacy; we look to Thee for Thy divine blessing. Thou' who didst give success to our fathers in their day, give success to our righteous cause. Help us to support the powers that be, which are ordained of God. Spare blood, if it may be. Speedily end this needless and unnatural warfare, and bring in peace and good-will over the whole land. We ask-we implore these blessings for the sake of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, our adorable Saviour. Amen. At the conclusion of the prayer, Rev. Dr. VERMILYEA said he desired to say a few words. I was, said he, born a citizen of this city, under the Stars and Stripes, and here I spent the greater part of my life. I cannot fight, but I can pray, and I have prayed most fervently for the success of our cause, and for constitutional liberty; and now I will read to you the following brief document: NEW YORK, April 20, 1861. CARPENTER & VERMILYEA-Pay to the order of Hon. John A. Dix one hundred dollars to aid in furnishing men and means to uphold the Constitution and Government of our country against treason and rebellion. $100. THOS. E. VERMILYEA. The reading of this brief but expressive document was greeted with cheers. MR. GRINNELL'S REMARKS. Mr. GRINNELL said that this was a meeting of American citizens without distinction of party; it was a meeting of citizens without respect to former political issues; a meeting impelled by one impulse and one purpose-the preservation of our country's integrity and the Constitution under which we live. (Applause.) Gentlemen, said Mr. G., a crisis has arrived; the arm of the traitor has been raised against this Union. That arm must be broken down. (Enthusiastic applause.) Blood-yes, yesterday the blood of Massachusetts was shed. Yesterday, the anniversary of the glorious battle of Lexington, the grandchildren of those who fought there, and whose blood was the first that was shed in our Revolutionyesterday, my friends, the blood of their children was spilled in the streets of Baltimore. (Sensation.) Now, I say, the time has come when you and I, the young, the old and the middle-aged, must do their duty like men. Let no man stand aside. Let him who wants physical strength pour out his advice, and his money, if he have any to give. To you, young gentlemen, who have the bone and the sinew in you, supported by conscientious feelings of the duty you owe to your country-to you we look to stand by those Stars and Stripes. (Cheers.) We are all in the same boat,-(Cries of, "That's so,")-and we know only one pilot and one guide; and that is, the Constitution, and the God who reigns over all. (Applause.) Gentlemen, I will not take up your time any longer; you have so many eloquent speakers to address you, that I will not detain you. The resolutions which were read at Stand No. 1, and all the others, were also read here and adopted with the most unbounded enthusiasm. Those parts referring to Major Anderson's defence of Fort Sumter, and to the preservation intact of the Union, were applauded and cheered to the echo. The whole series were put to the vote, and passed with the greatest unanimity. You have heard, said Mr. Grinnell, the resolutions; do you all second them? (Cries of "Yes, yes.") Then adopt them with three cheers. ("Aye, aye," | stance, north or south. Now, my fellow-citizens, and tremendous cheers.) At this point of the proceedings Major Anderson came upon the stand, arm-in-arm with Mr. Simeon Draper, and when brought to the front of the platform such a cheer as went up from that vast multitude was never heard before. It must have gladdened the heart of the hero of Fort Sumter. Three cheers thrice repeated were given for him, and he was obliged to go to the rear of the stand and show himself; there he was greeted with a similar demon-pointed in his unhallowed, unholy, and damnable amstration. It was at least five minutes before quiet could be restored, and the meeting allowed to proceed. In the meantime crowds swarmed around the gallant Major, and nearly shook the hands off him in the warmth of their friendship. this is a rebellion against a faultless, not only a fault- At this juncture, Captain Foster, of the Enginecr Corps, and Dr. Crawford, both of whom were with Major Anderson in Fort Sumter, appeared on the stand, and were introduced by the President to the assemblage. SPEECH OF WILLIAM CURTIS NOYES, ESQ. I have never before had reason to speak anywhere under circumstances of such extraordinary solemnity. The most eloquent speaker that could address you has just presented himself in the person of Major Anderson. (Loud cheers and applause, which lasted several minutes.) He has just come from the smoke and flame of the fiery furnace, kindled by a band of faithless traitors. (Loud cheers, and three groans for the traitors.) You have just sent from among your midst nearly one thousand men, the flower of the city of New York, to resent the insult to your flag. (Loud applause.) You have sent them to resent the insult to your flag, and the greater insult, namely, an insult to the Constitution and the laws of your country; and you know that if those men are permitted to make their progress to Washington, and southward, they will tell a tale of which New York may justly be proud. (Cheers.) Your assembling here proves that you, young men, and, I hope, some of us old men, are ready to follow their example, shoulder their muskets, put on their knapsacks and their fatigue dresses-not their fancy dresses-and march to the rescue of the Constitution and the country. (Loud cheers.) Yesterday was the anniversary of the battle of Lexington. The blood of Massachusetts was the first to be shed on that anniversary,-(three cheers for Massachusetts,)—yesterday, in the putting down of this rebellion. (Cheers.) John Clarke, one of the heroes of the battle of Lexington, wrote in Mr. NOYES resumed as follows:-The only objechis almanac, opposite that day, "This is the inaugur- tion that I have to Dr. Crawford, is that he adminisation of the liberty of the American world." (Cheers.) tered an antidote to Mr. Pryor. I wish the antidote I beg you to mark the phrase, "The inauguration of had been administered first, and something else afterthe liberty of the American world." Not, a frag-wards. (Loud laughter and cheers.) I was saying ment of it-not of the Northern States-not of a portion of this great Union, but of "the liberty of the American world "-the whole Union. (Loud cheers.) This Union will go on, notwithstanding this rebellion, until that prophecy, uttered eighty years ago and upwards, is fulfilled. (Cheers.) We are not in the midst of revolution. We are in the midst of rebellion. There never was a more beneficent, a more benign Government, than that of the United States, since time began. (Loud applause.) Never! (Cheers.) It has borne so gently always-(three loud cheers for the Government of the United States) -it has borne so gently always upon the shoulders of the people, that they have hardly known itscarcely felt it. Nothing has been oppressive or unjust, and no tyranny has been offered in any in They bowed their acknowledgments, were received with deafening cheers, and, having conversed with some of the gentlemen on the platform, retired. that there was only one true patriot in the Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan, and he left the moment he discovered the perfidious conduct of his associates. Let him be, as he deserves to be, forever embalmed in your recollections, and in those of a grateful posterity. (Loud applause.) He has retired to his own home, but he has retired with public gratitude, which will follow him to his last moment. I said we had a forbearing Government. After Fort Sumter was taken possession of by Major Anderson, the Government were still supine; and even after the inauguration of Mr. Lincoln, if any thing could have been done, nothing was done, to prevent the closing round of the men in that brave fortress, and round the braver hearts in it. Seventeen or eighteen batteries were prepared, as soon as ready, to pour out fire upon it. Was there ever a greater instance of forbearance than this? Never! And the moment they discovered it was to be relieved, in provisions only, that instant they sought to murder every man in that hopeless garrison. Our Government then was forbearing. Our Government has been kind. But what is the character of the Government that has been inaugurated, claiming to be the Government of the Confederate States? What is the character of that Government? I call your attention to a single instance. They have inaugurated a wholesale system of piracy on the entire commerce of the country. (Applause.) That is what they have done, and that is the character of the measures which they will adopt in all the war which is to go on. Now, what is the duty of the Administration under such circumstances? (Shouts of "Shoot them! shoot them!") Let us see how they speak of the national flag, that idol of your hearts, which every one of us has adored from the moment his eyes first saw the light. Let us see how they speak of the national flag. Here is a speech of Gov. Pickens, delivered immediately after Fort Sumter had surrendered. This Governor of South Carolina, the pupil of Mr. Calhoun, under the tutorship of Jefferson Davis, thus speaks of our flag -a flag which was never trailed in the dust before, and which has maintained its integrity with unflinching courage, and was never with a stain before. He says: "I hope on to-morrow, Sabbath though it be, that under the protection of Providence, and under the orders of General Beauregard, commander of our forces from the Confederate States, you shall have the proud gratification of seeing the Palmetto flag raised upon that fortress, and the Confederate flag of these free and independent States side by side with it; and there they shall float forever, in defiance of any power that man can bring against them. (Applause.) We have humbled the flag of the United States; and as long as I have the honor to preside as your Chief Magistrate, so help me God, there is no power on this earth shall ever lower from that fortress those flags, unless they be lowered and trailed in a sea of blood. (Vociferous applause.) I can here say to you, it is the first time in the history of this country that the Stars and Stripes have been humbled. It has triumphed for seventy years, but to-day, on the 13th day of April, it has been humbled, and humbled before the glorious little State of South Carolina. (Applause.) The Stars and Stripes have been lowered before your eyes this day, but there are no flames that shall ever lower the flag of South Carolina while I have the honor to preside as your Chief Magistrate." Now I give one response to that, and I ask you to respond to it : Forever float that standard sheet, Where breathes the foe but falls before us: (Loud and continued cheers.) SPEECH OF SENATOR SPINOLA. There is no more glorious cause under which we could assemble than that which calls us together-the cause of our country. War under any circumstances is to be regretted, and more particularly it is to be mourned over when we find such a war as is now upon us; but it has come, and there is only one thing left for us to do, and that is, our duty. It is for you to say whether you will meet these traitors and drive them into the ocean. (Cries of "Yes," "Yes.") God in His mercy gave you this country, and Washington gave you the Constitution under which we live. Both have been intrusted to you for safety and perpetuation. Will you take care of them, or will you not? ("We will, we will.") Before coming upon this stand I circuited this park, and as I walked by the statue of Washington on the other side, and saw the flag of Fort Sumter, torn and tattered as it is-torn and tattered, but not dishonored-I gloried in that flag. I gloried in Anderson and his little band of thirty-five gunners, who kept off for so many hours thirty thousand treason-mongers of South Carolina, who were not able even to make them strike that flag. (Cheers.) We must not stop now to inquire what has produced this war. You must only inquire as to the proper means to meet and carry it on successfully, and to finish it at the earliest moment. To accomplish this, let the Northmen rally in their might, and these traitors shall meet an end more ignominious than that which fell upon the traitor Arnold. (Applause.) Familiar to every man within the sound of my voice is the fact that our men have been interrupted in their way to the Federal capital. Let not those "Blood Tubs" provoke us to too great an extent, or we will make the city of Baltimore suffer terribly. We will leave nothing but a smouldering ruin where Baltimore now stands. (Tremendous cheering.) The great leading avenue to the Federal capital shall be kept open under all circumstances. No power on earth shall close it. Jefferson Davis says for the first time in three-quarters of a century the American flag has been humbled. He lied when he said so. (Applause.) There is not blood enough in his body to humble it. (Renewed applause.) Jefferson Davis and Cobb have filled their pockets at the public expense, and, having robbed the republic, have endeavored to destroy it. May God's mercy rest upon them until they wither away from the respect of mankind! (Cheering.) My countrymen, revolution under some circum. stances is justifiable, but only when the rights of the people have been invaded, and when the iron heel of despotism has crushed them to the earth; but here in this instance no wrong has been perpetrated, no outrage has been committed, except in the dirty imagination of political demagogues in the cotton States. (Cheers.) And they seek to break up this Government. But let me tell you, they shall not do it. (Cheers.) Men have died for the liberties of their fellow-men. Go to Ireland, and you will there behold the grave of her patriot martyr, Emmet, who perished on the scaffold because he desired to give to his countrymen the same liberty we now enjoy. And if a patriot was thus treated for trying to gain the independence of his native land, what should be done with the traitor who seeks to destroy the freedom of his country, and to bring it to destruction? (Cries of "Hang him.") Hanging is too good for him. A more severe but certain punishment should await him; but a single jerk, and it is all over with him. Our Government, my friends, must not falter in this hour of our emergency. Every nerve must be brought into action, and every action must deal a blow of death to every traitor. (Cheers.) The Potomac should be lined with gunboats, and every time that one of these vagabonds appears upon its banks, he should be blown to the devil without mercy. (Cheers and laughter. A voice, “Yes, and without the benefit of clergy.") My friend says, "without the benefit of clergy;" to that I say, Amen! This |