LIBRARY OF CONGRESS ooumi3^o^c^ \ BOSTON COURIER REPORT OF THE UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL, TI^XJI^SIDJVSr, DEO. 8"^^^ 18S9. Speeches op Ex-Gov. LINCOLN, EDWARD EVERETT, CALEB CUSHING. Resolutions Adopted by the Meeting. Letters of Ex-President PIERCE, Judge CURTIS, Ex-Govs. MORTON and CLIFFORD, Profs. FELTON and PIERCE, ERASMUS D. BEACH, and others. Names of Signers to the Call. [pnONOGRAPUIC REPORT.] published by CLARK, FELLOWS & COMPANY, OFFICE OP THE BOSTON COURIER, BOSTON. BosTOX, December 14th, 1859. This account of the proceedings at Faneuil Hall, on the morning of December 8th, is published under the sanction of the Executive Committee. WILLIAM APPLETON, FRANKLIN HAVEN, GEORGE LUNT, JOHN T. HEARD, HENRY J. GARDNER, S. T. DANA, SIDNEY WEBSTER, LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, Executive Committee. PRESS OF GEO. C. RAND AND AVERT, NO. 3, COKNHILL. ^l-'^^^^S UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL, The meeting at Faneuil Hall Thursday morn- ing, was the largest raid-day assembly that we re- member to have witnessed for a period of many years. As early as half-past ten o'clock the hall Hself Avas filled, and at eleven o'clock, even the 3Stibule and stairways were crowded. Indeed, was impossible to enter within the outside door reason of the throng. Each minute, hvm- jds were turning away, disappointed, from the lin endeavor to gain admission. We give a most complete record of the pro- ceedings, beginning with the original call for the meeting and the names appended. TUe Call for the Meeting. In view of the present disturbeil condition of public senti- ment, and the dansjers which threaten our Union, the un- dersigned respectfully invite the citizens of Massachusetts, who honor an 1 cherish that Union— who mean to maintain the Constitution of the United States, and faithfully to carry out all its requirements and obligations, to meet with them at Faneuil Hall THIS DAY, (.Thursday,) at U o'clock A. M. Nathan Appleton Henry J. Uaidaer James W. Paige; Wm. Appleton John T. Heard .fames W. Sever Francis Skinner Chas. G. Greene Veter Harvey Edward Everett E. B. Bigelow Wm. Amory James M Beebe Sidney Webster .Ibert Feaiing ranklin H^ven (eorge Lunt j lenry Colt .. X. Dana i3enj. E. Bates J. P. Healy C. B. Goodrich' E. F. Hodges T. W. Pierce Leverett Saltonstall Peter Butler Wm. Parsons '. H. Jackson imuel F. Coolidfte Holmes Edward Blake Harrison Bitchie H. H. Hunnewellj Si.tney Bartlett I. Sargent E . S. Tobey F. N. Bradlee Jas. Bowdoin Bradlee Geo. B. Cary] Nathl Thayer H. P. Kidder James Lee, Jr. Thos. Dwight Wm. Dwight Thos. Motley, Jr. Geo. Peabody Chas. Wells Wm. Thomas Geo. H. Kuhn I. W. H. Cadamus T. B. Curtis Israel Whitney P. C. Brooks Uiiel Crocker Will Aspiuwall J, Giles Tolman Wiley James Read Geo. W. Lyman S G Snelling Mark Healey Osmyn Brewster A. M. Swallow J. Thos. Stevenson R C Hooper. N. Silsbee Henry C. HutchingS Billings BrigfiS William D. Swan Enoch Hobart S. P. Dexter Benj. Poor W. H. Milton Chas. Cushman Gideon I. Mansfield F. D. Williams Jos. Murduck Edwd E. Poor Henry A. Gowing W. G. Benedict Geo. P. Denny Geo. O. Hovey S. Frothingham Jr H. W. Aboot ■Joshua Lovett John D. Sabine Zenas Gushing Wm. Minot John A Loring Geo. B Upton Jas. McGregor J. Wiley Edmands Francis Bacon Levi Bartlett Samuel Wells R. H. Eddy Farnhani Plummer Charles M err jam Ozias Goodwin R. M. Morse Francis M. Weld S. P xMeiiam J. W. Tyler Fredk. I. Bush Wm. Starns Henry Chafnn Arioch Wentworth J. M. Murdock J M. Roberts William W. Clark E. T. Stmiels Aloiizo Burbank E. W. Hale Joseph Hiile Franklin llmcock Thomas Gould James Hall Wm Hammond David Snow, Jr. Henry Dean H. Z. Meserre F. H Story N. Hooper Geo. R. Minot P.T. Jackson John Clark. John T. Morse Edwin H.Hall Chas. S. Cutter Geo. J. Fi.-ke C llulbert D. Blndgett I. W. Bonnie Henry F Cragin Wm P. Mason T Jefferson Coolidge John C. Lee D. N. Spooner Thos West Wm. Sturgis B. F. Hallett Henry L. Hallett Geo. S. Hillard W. Raymond Lee W. H Gregerson John C Crowley Selden Crockett Geo. T Cuitis B. P. Cheney David Ellis S. N. & H. G.Ufford J. W. Clapp E. Liveruiore C. W. Bridstreet John F. Currier ¥. Johnson Charles Meriam J. W. Clark S. C. Whitcher Thos. H. Sactmiten C. F. Perkins M. Cutter B. F. Parker J. Owen Litilefield N. B. Favor Edward Ayers H. K. Moore C. Wyatt Caleb Barker Geo. W. Barker John Perharn, Jr. Edwd. H. Brown Franklin Prescott F. Sprague James Smith T. K. Moure N. M. Jewell Orin M. Head Daniel E. McNalley F. A. Downiug J. F. Ayer Joseph Lincoln UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. W. T. Tuckerman Jnshuii Seward Win. 11. Canit'S Charles M. Wood Wm. I'araous F. II. Jackson S. F. C.HjIUlge Mark Healy Osinyti Brewsler Asa Swallovr J. T. Stevenson, Jr. Nalh Silsbee Henry C. Ilutchins liillin-s Urijitis lleury li. Uliver, Jr. Thos. F. Vose Ohas. 11. Stearns Jos. L. lloUis W. U. .MUliken Wm. B. God.lard Henry Hudson 1. 1. Sullivan J I. Goddard John G.iddard E. lluuglitou J. C. Hunt W. B. Patterson J no. II. Mahan Cbas. Armstrong Jno. G. Spear Chas. U. Seaver Chas E. Stearns Oliver Coleman Chauiicey M. Paine Edw. K. Wheeloct Alfred J. Parker Edw. Eaton Kufas E. Eaton Jno. K. Doaue G. A. llogers Jas. K. Munroe Alonzo Hayes Chas. Day M. R. Deunison Chas. Y. Johnson W. H. Beal Geo. C. Watson N. H. Converse Jno. S. Doane Geo. C. Vose Laurence Knowlton A. C. Alnswrorih Alex. Donaldson Wm. II. Vincent Wm. Hinuy Kben Foster Thos. D. Uuincy OUver Hall Saml. F. White Henry Hall lienjaiuin Bird A. II. ttevens Lewis P. B.rd Elisha Ford Charles Lyon Ebenezer Sumner [ra Foster J. Suret C. H. PrescoU II. T. Wheeler E. M. Smith Eben liolden, Ji. Isaiah Atkins James E. Thacher Francis H. bv^an Chas. A. Clapp Geo. Clark, Jr. Belden Page Baml. P. Loud J. Henry Loud Thomas J. llazen Geo. H. B mker A. B. Wh.eier Wm. II. Hichardson J. Tiieodore Clark George D . Temna Barnard Ford Wm. F. Lord Clarence Sumner Moses G. Cobb A. Perkins, Jr. O. II. Fla-g S. T. Sanborn Erastus F Dana Geo. F. Pierce Lyman Nichols Jas. C. Converse Joseph U. Gray E. W. C inverse W. U. llurlburt H. R. Perkins R. Swan P. S. Iluckins Robert Kelley A. G. Taggart D. Waldo Salisbury John D. Parker Chas. Merriam, Ji Frank S. Hall N. Walker Francis C. Adams Jesse Eddy S. S. Bucklin Wil.iam li. Harding Nathan Day Augustus Brown Jfseph Dlx Henry M. Snell Algernon A. Curtis Edward E. Rice J. S.Clement G. P. K. Walker B. F. Welch Edwin C.Barnes Wm. H. Blood Jas. B. Hancock C. E. Graves Frederick Sweetser Chas. H. Alley Clarence A. Dorr S. W. Richardson Henry C. Wainwright Josiah Bardwell A. C. Lombard R B. Williams, Jr J. 11. French Jas. Dana C. II. Cole E. D. Brigham Isaac II. Wright Moses Williams Aaron D. Williams John D Weld Barney Corey Aaron D. Weld S. L. French C. II. Graves Levi Bartlett Ebr. F. Farrington Andrew S. Tozier Jas. K. Frothingham, Jr Chas. C. Henuhaw Luther II. Feltou II. L, Cummings Daniel Crowley John U. Shaltuck Francis JI. Andrew Wm. Brewster Wm. Curtis D.D.Kelly W. S. Robert George Wright II. A. Ljud A. C. G rover W. B. Whitcomb John Lothrop Lewis Colley Geo. S. Wentworth John Campbell Geo. D. Phillips Freeman Ilolden Benj. F. Russell Samuel Cleaves Geo. WriK'ht Thomas .Moore Jas. 11. Critchett Svlvester Bowman D. Bowman John Dunklee 0. Holmes J. Amory Davis Chas. L. Brigham, Jr. Chas. A. Thacher Geo. II. Vincent J. H. Suuiuer N.Ripley, Jr., Hull Gecrge Newhall Alfred C. Thacher Francis II. Raymond Lewis Pierce Chas 11. Pierce Lewis F. Pierce Wm. 11. Pierce Geo. F. Pierce Wm. llenshaw Augustus Lowell J. A. Lowell Jos. L. Coolidge Albert Drake Chas. Henry Parker Joseph B. Glover J. Francis Tuckerman Jo.'ieph P. Gardner Rich. D. Rogers Arthur Williams Jacob C. Rogers Eben Bacon W. 11. Bryant William Perkins J. M. Gardner R. S. S. Andros. John L. Gardner Richd. F. Bond Joseph Ooohdge Sidney Coolidge P. Pen-in Ellis Nathl. P. Russell Edward Dexter A. H. Fiske P. C. Brooks, Jr. Geo. B. Sohier Ives Q. Bates Wm. P. Lyman A. L. Lyman S. II. Whitwell Richard S. Parker William Ropes J. Randolph Coolidge David Nevins Jos. S. Fay J. P. JIarquand Geo, A. Skinner Andrew Cazneau Saml. A, Allen John Lewis, Jr Francis Lincoln A. Weeks J. F. Weeks W. O. Harrington James E. Simpson J. R. Holmes F. A. Parkhurst Joseph I. Beals Ichabod Weston, Jr Rob. R. K-nt Chas. D. Bellows Laban Beal Nathaniel Seaver C. Cole Thos. llaynes Geo. M. Adams Washington Snelling Edwd. L. Grueby E. W. Barker A.J. Ilutchins Wm. Avrill Cyrus Kellsa R. L. Hinckley Wm. C. Smith J. E. Noyes A. H. Taylor S. C. Allen Nalh Sturtev John Borrowscale F. W. Nickerson Jos. W. Grigg Lucius Carne S W. Maralon, Jr. Edward A. Hasty Saml. A. Belknap A. P. Sears Theo. II. Dugan D"nni3 Comlry.' Sewell Tappan Frederick Tudor Henry Saltonstall Frederick W. Thayer Benj. F. Field R. A. Ranlett R. WhiUm, Jr. Isaac Howe Amos Smith, Jr George Homer B. F. Copeland Frederick Kidder S. P. Stacy H. R. Gardiner Cjrus Washburn J. B. Iluckins J. A. S.iuipson B. B. Jlagrath Jainea C .Merrill Job.eph .M. \\ightman O.lver St;veiis James M. Stevens James Lyford Jolin Hughes Simon S. Ames A. G. Wilbor John T. Diiigley James P. Dexler A. S. Haven M. D.Ross Th iiinas A. Matthews Jobiah B. Richardson Daniel 11. Whitney Jiiseph 11. Jones J. U. Lappeii Edward H. Dingley Porter llartwell George W. Tuxbury Wm. H. Gieeley Jas. Cheever Edw. A. Abbott Edwin Thompson Joseph L. Richards Thos. P. Ayer John Foster Edwin Young Robert E. Hudson Wm. R. Whitaker Henry C. Kendrick E. Sampson John Tyler Joseph Palmer Chas. Suule, Jr. I. Prichard Joseph Greeley I. 11. Tomjison • Jas. Longley Saml. 11. Gookin Gustavus Nickerman, Jr. i^. B. Tucker Theo. D. Townsend Wm. C. Codman A. S. Wheeler S. W. Fowle & Co Wm. L. Beal Daniel U-laud, Jr Richard C. Nichols A. Cunningham Geo. F. Wilde E'en Dale J. Abbott Benj. F. Mahan Amasa D. Gamage M. Field F Avler P. Adams Ames Oliver Ditson David M. Balfour Alexander Beil Lewis BuUard F. L. Richardson Henry Plymjiton Nath. Hammond Geo. Whit:>ey Jos. W. Howard J. W.Taylor J M. Bugbee Sam'l T. Damon UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. J. W. Taylor Ednr. Lander John F. Banchor J. W. Fairfield V Chas. R. Codmaa * J. H. Taylor Peter Hijfgins M. S. Lincoln W. Underwood W. Q. Cutter * Chas. Larkin Chas. A. White Marshall P. Wilder Geo. Renton, M. D. Geo. E. Whinton » N.W. Turner Chas. H. Francis Chas. E. Perkins Paschal P. P. Ware J. P. Crowell « D. K. Batchelder R. L. Harper Richard Ward Geo. C. Ward F. Bird , John Gilbert, Jr Henry K. Appleton E. Stone Goodwin P.Edwards F. C. Raymond I. G. Ball * C.W. Bartlett Chas. A. Prince William Ballard Samuel 0. Ingalls John Grover ► J. P. Otis James Bates Geo. H. Foote Carlton Parker John G. R. Smith , John E. Dodge John C. Gilbert Nath. C. Stearns Henry Cunningham Nelson Barber . W. A. FuUum L. J. Williams Horace Weston I. R. Putnam Chas. W. Atwood Joshua Atwood Edwin Story Chas. P. Kel>y John G. Butler E. B. Ford J. Grover Dyson Dearborn J. Henry Wright Gilman F, Besent H. Lyman Robinson C. DriscoH John L. Hunnewell Wm. W. Whieldon John W. Blanchard Isaac Emery Amasa Pray 0. J. Davis L. F. George A. W. Russell Richard Scott Axel Dearborn C. E. Paige S. S. Rowe J.M.Pike Benj. Hosley W. A. & C. L. Wright J. Wells •, H.C. Wright Andrew Webster Horace 'underwooJ S. S. Miles Solo. Piper I Perry Brigham Moses Merrifield J. Q. A. Holbrook Geo. W. Prentice Thos. J. Keef Edw.H. Dewson Jno. C. Bundy John Jeffries, Jr B. F. Nourse Geo. Biicon Tlios, Wigglesworth Eben Howes Daniel Sharpe J. H. Ward E. B. Pratt James Sword John Adams Saml. B. llobart Darius A. Martin Wm. W. KenUrick A. D. Peck Ezra Farnsworth W. H. Wilder John Bu.Teis Holmes Ammidown Lyman C. A'ose John Tilton John W. White A. T. Whiting J. B. Moody S Cushing G. Jackson John .■Vmee AVoodbury Langdon Theo. H. Poque T. Fred. Saxton S. Pinkham R. F. Stevens Geo, T. Wright Jas. 0. Watson W. N. Sawyer, Jr B. L. Merrill Calvin 0. Tufts Henry D, Barnes Austin Sumner C. H. Potter Joseph Curtis F. L. Macomber J js. R. Tebbetts John Aiken Daniel Park W^m Brarahall Benj. C. White Wm. H. Elli^on C. W. Cartwright Jeffrey Richardson Isaac Sweetser Richard Frothingham, Jr Chas Thompson, Jr Granville Mears Briggs Thomas Henry Adams Simon Jones Thos. C. Stearns Geo. Foster Saral. B. Rindge A. R. Thompson Saml. J. M- Homer Chas. W. Homer S. W. Sargect Edw. H. Ammidown Chas. W. CogsweU C. C. Marble CM. Noyes Wilson Dibblee Dwight Prouty J. Coffin Jones Brown Miles Washburn Geo. A. Whitney Jas. M. Greenwood Joshua Stetson Joseph Sawyer Daniel Kimball, Jr Tlios. G. Mason W. M. Todd E. Oakes Lewis C. F. Wheelsr J. Francis Kimball A'Jdison Child G. F. Noble W. G. Train C. E. Stratton A. U. White James li. Baker John T. Smim , Lewis Enrticott N. F. Frothingham Francis Williams Chas. De.Nter C. H. Duuklee, Geo. Sherman, John Muzzy Saml. J. Miles John B. Pazur Uobt. M. 0. ituUivan Saml. Prince Henry Bacon W. W. Webber Chas. F. W^ells W'm. S. Tilton Jos. B. Tilton Saml. G.Thayer S. H. Lewis & Son Geo. W. Abbott & Co Jno. B. Robinson Francis K. Fisher Thos. A. Guddard M. Lincoln Bowles Danl. A. Paich Wm. B. Davis B. F. Warner F. G. Faxon Caleb B. Watts A. J. Bailey S. W.Jenkins F. H, Jones J. F. Spaulding Rufus Choate Geo. N. Thomson Christopher Fish g. B. Conant J. N. Phipps I. M. Bell R. H. Douglass Thos. C. Shirley J. H. Guppy Chas Cotton Wm. E. Brown Sewall B. Bond Austin White Ira D. Davenport Earl Shaw Ziba Stearns D. A. Potter D. L. Powers C. C. Bishop John G. Tirrell D. B. Roberts Jas. Power W. A. Mckerson "Wm. N. Foster C. W. Haitshorn S. Williams Wm. H. Colburn Bradford Kinsley Saml. L. Montague Ira Peirce Weare D. Bickford Thos. J. Dunbar D;ivid W. Child Wm. F. Wentworth J. C. Brown Wm. R. Paine S ephen Tilton Wm. C. Peters Wm. Rogers H. C. Thacher Wm. F. Worthington Eben S. Fisher Nicholas Reggio & Co J. lasigi E. W. Rollins Thos. L. Smi;h Danl. K. Sortwell John Buniham Jos. A. Alley Jas. H. Rist N. D. Silshee II. N. Rice Harvey Lincoln E. C. Wade, Jr IL Stedman Saml G.Reed Chas ■\. Lombard J. A. Glidden Prescott Bigelow Chas. L. Uayward Edward Bartlett Samuel Nicolson G. Mountfort Isaac Rich Wm. P. Lee William Phipps. Jr. Benj. Cushing Wm. Merriam Stephen C. Perrin Wm. lleyward J. Parker Whitney Alfred Winsor E. B. Thayer Thomas Simmons Hejiry Evans John F. Ehot Howard Snelling A. Hobart, Jr. F. Thompson Wm. Thwing Jas. W. llannum Wm. E. Hodi;king N. W. BridgS Sandford M. Hunt Benj. Bruce Chas. L. Haley Arthur Pickering Chas. Arnold Samuel S. Allen E. M. Dunbar Chas. A. Bead Wm. A. Bates James Butler Samuel Q. Cochran Samuel F. Dalton John S. Blake Wm. D. Lciran John C. Blown Eben'zer Eaton Chas. H. Bailey Robert Swan Wm. W. Swan SheUon Barry M. R. Culier T. P. Wilson Thos. S. Dennett J. D McGill R. Gilpatrick Thos. O'Neill Henry D. Todd P. S. Barnard Adam Heinz Wm. E. Cashman Jacob Bambaud Jacob Norris G. U. Doggett B. O. Hudson N. Washburn Geo. P. Bullens IL Blainey Wm. Parsons, Jr. C. B. Damon Jas. H. Dutee Wm. Makepiece Jas. Jackson W. C. Rives, Jr. Jno. H. Roeers W. H. 11. KendaU Andrew Davis Edward P. Cutter L W. Washburn Thaddeus Nichols Wm. H. Smith Samuel S. Pierce J. E. Bubee W. C. H. Graves W. Chapman B. F. Adams Jas. McLane Paul Willard M, Hession Henry Haddock A L. Lincoln Chas. M. Foss John Watson B. F. Lnud Silas Pierce Jno. C. Chaffen E. W. Baxter, Jr. S. J. Prescott UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. Giaeon F. Thayer \Viu. t'. U JO J son Eiiwanl Lawrence Jos. Meyer TtiiiS. is. Dexter T. C. Amory Dexter Henry Hice Jabez 0. Homer Geo. H. Cutter T. f. Manilell AliiiiKi) Hamilton V. K. Mayiiarii L. J, Uradish \Vm. U. Uall J. C. Wilson a. K. Palmer J. Kdwards, Jr Albert Morse Duller N. Kichards J. I'. Bliss L. Robinson U. M.Stanfield l-nos J. Slone George I'ierce Henri A. Mansfield A. H. Silvester E. D. Vosd Chas. II. Ward S. B. Fuller N. E llogers John 8. Tyler Eno. W. Thayer J. M. Petteogill John F. Bouve Geo. Bates Blake Geo. C. Lee O. \V. Peabody E. M. Pratt B. B. Forbes John T. Coolidge George M. Barnard James C. \\ ild J. G. Goodnow B. L. Allen E. Rhoades Thomas C. Amory S. G. lingers Daniel Goodwin John BroiiKS Parker T. H. Brown J. Davis. Jr. John D. Bates S. U.IIuwe Jos. B. Frost. Jr. 11. S. Dunn \Vm. U. Prescott J. N. Turner A. A. Shedd AVm. D Tnayer ■yVm. U. Uichardsoa Chris. E. Ooudwin James S Kimball A. L. Lovejuy H. B S impson John Milcher Geo. L. Thayer Edw. P. Thayer Charles Scudder J. P. Rogers J. K. Manning E. D. Eager J. E. Daniell n. C. Howard & Co K. J. Long T. H. Perkins Chas. Amory ThoH. A Lindiee Joshua II. Daws Chas. Mifflin C. B. Fesse.iden Francis W. Welch John Ballard Thos. B Ilawkea Joseph Ballard Geo. L. Pratt Chas. Torrey Fri.ncis Welch Will. .M. Byrnes ]!. If. Zool Frank. A. Hall B. T. Reed Wm. Applet'in, Jr. G o. W. t rait W. Dalton Thos. Motley fi. A. Emmons Chas. J. Ilendee S. E. Sprague II. W. Fuller Milton Andros Charles Inches J. G. Kidder Caleb S. Curtis Geo. S. Gushing Nathan Matthews A. W. Conant F. E. Bacon C. R. Lamb Gordon McKay C. W. Spofford T. E. Chickering John A. Cummings B. W. Field Joseph H. Barret J. P. Draper \Vm. Muuroe Chas. Levi Woodbury Elisha Bassett, Watson Freeman, J. H. Conant C. \V. Cunningham S. W. Green J. II. Cheeney Horace D. dd George Allen Thos. Hall A. S. Lewis J.K.Hall N. B. Gibbs Wm. H. Foster Alden Glir..rd Enoch Martin Chas. Homer Andrew J. Ilolman Nahum Capen Saml. W. Clifford Thos. P. Rich Albert Glover C. Wakefield Otis Daniel John H. Swasey Theodore Prentice Theo. A. Neal William Pratt J. Blake Otis Rich Fred A. Brown Chas. II. Sanborn John M. O.\lon Saml. S. Pierce H. French Francis Davidson Emmons Raymond E. A. Boardniaa F'rancis Fisher Jos. E. Thayer A. Freeman W. II. Boardman R S. Fay. Jr Henry S. Ward A. W. Austin Henry B. Groves B.R.Curtis G. W. Warren C. F. & H. D Parkman Harvey Jewell Roht. B. Williams J. H. W. Page Henry Burroughs G. I). Guild E. T. Osborn P. E. \\ heeler James Oakes Frank Evans F. W. Andrews S. Amory Head Wm. C. Otis Joshua Blake Edward ikes W. A. Cochran F. Nickerson Jacob W. Seaver Matthew Bartlett J.Taylor W R. Norcrois Isaac Thacher John Ferris 11. P. Bruce J. H. Silsby Elijah Drew Amasa W. Bailey Phinehas Titus George Field W. G. Fisher, Jr. W. G. Lamphey 0. N. Mellen T. Stetson J. T. Gustin J. Datton W. A. Holmes Josiah Hai'.ley K. A. Holmes J. McKinley J. E. Holmes II Weston F. H.Failey H. Fobes Chas. Sanderson John R. Lee J. II. Collier Geo. 11. Gooding H. Kunley J. S. Dunlap Frank C Richards J. A. Sampson B. F. Hanley Henry II. Cook J. S. Darling Chas. Clark Geo. T. Bullard G. Ryder, Jr. Geo. W. ChurchUl Jas. Holbrook Elisha Stone Jno. Belcher J no. D. Cadegan H. E. Smith J. C. Trow A. V. Butman Jas. G. Foster Henry II. Hyde E. M. Smith Geo. Robbins A. Brown Benj. S. Freeman B. i\ Nourse L. T. Prescott J. W. Rolvett G. II.Loomis n. S. Vinton W.T. R. Marvin. Jolin Chainberlin Geo. A. Batchelder Samuel Howard T.J. Smith Geo. W.Peck J. C. Lamb Joseph a. .Vorris Joseph A. White Clinton Viles Chas, C Harrington Moses Stevens E. P. Robinson Taylor *: Easton George Babson Joseph Webb Wm. Morgan John A. Wright Clifford Belmont T. E. Chickering Geo. H. Cnild John B. Frothin'ham Tarbell. Dana k. Co. John Winslow James D. llitchell Wm.Bellhedd W. C Cristy, Jr. J. N. Burleigh Geo. F Tarbell S. A. Eudicoit J. F. Nickerson Geo. 11. Horaans Thos. K. Cummins J. O. Waterman Maithew Elhs John R. blake J. Iiiman Cunningham D. F. Benjamin W. W. Lat.man Wm. Blaney Saml. Willousihby Beman S. Baylie Tho-s. P. Chiiddick H. M. Bowman J. E Clapp Chas. A. Barker Geo. E. Wilson Geo. N. Dexter H. J. Murdock J. P. Gilson J. W. Wheelwright Fred. Odiirne John 0. Presbrey B ibson k Co. Everett 0. Foss J. Q. A. Bean A. J. Harlow Abram Smith Wm. H. Hayadorn Wm. F. Davis Geo. J. Doekray F. B. Smith J. W. Balch B. L. Wales J. P. Robinson A. Hanscom .1. W. B ard E. Frothingham, Jr. Geo. B. Wellman Henry D. Clary Jas. L Tucker Geo. O. Liiidsey W. H. Emery Jos. W. Wright E. W. Holmes J. B. N orris Chas Crafts T. M. Runlet Chas. Dodd Wm. Williams T. R. Marvin. H. A. S. D. Payne S. holmes J. Q. Kettelle Thos. J. Whittemore T. Brown Di.\ Saml. D. Slocum Chas. A. Maine Jas. 0. Frost 0. Seavev M Tobey Edw. Jones Edwin M . Palmer llarye.vHowe Nathl. Witsor Geo. A. Simmons J. Trull Ezra J. Whitnn Darius Young M. D. Carli,e Jno, H. Pear.<;on Geo. Roiierc Carter J. K. Porter Geo. Odin Harri^on Loring Isaac Story Geo. E. Adams John J. Brown N. B. Daggett AVm. Brown Thad.'d Allen Isaiah Stedman Geo. Ellis Chas. B. Darling J. W. Warren James B. Sar;-o W Lewis, Gearfleld Learned. ()~goo>l Eaton, Ithiimar A Bean, Frcdk W Hall, M E Cushman, Isiac Davis, Robert Warner, As i T Pratt, D Townsend, E W Scott, M Fernald, Fletcher Webster, Thomas Huirlies, Jas J Maguire, Otis H Wiirgin, J P Raymond, Ricliard J Killion W K Hodgkina, Y J Seavey, S M Clough, Chas Jlchlroy, John Burridan, Jas Oscar Wood, L A Hitchcock, John TiK.mas, W F Emery. Eduard Flanders, W M Danf rth, C W Boulter, Stephen White, M lurice A Hearn, Theodore Mearyon, Andrew Sumner, R L Flanders, Da,nit'l liobbins, Chas Hrley, L Marshall. Chas W Rhodes, Samuel G Fessenden, Hiram Pierce, H K Tracy, H F Allen, K K Wilson, D K Legaller, Samuel Mower, John U. Ejstburn, E Putnam, Lewis Clark, John Christan, J B Read, Samuel F Lancey, Daniel Langdon, Wm Mack. Chas C Henry, .lohn K Stewart, Wm A Berry, James McCutcheon, s Meliiggin, James J ttichardaon, Wm Ivnight, Geo Leon a-d, Tiiom IS Kiler, J A Nye, J D Rupp, Geo Butler, James D Burgess, Alfred C. Hersey Juhn Howe Geo. R. Sampson Au.u3t.us W. I'errin I'lrker Kowle & Sous t. W. (Jrisvuld Jo!in Curtis John Coliamore Geo. E. Coliamore Neueiniali Jl. Dyer William Pope Hiram Holt Setli G. Brown N. D. Whitney P. Revere W. E. Butts Geo. Hurburt Jas. F. Hartshorn, Jr. E. H. Wade Thomas E' Moseley B W Fo-ter. Roben Keith, Fred Tower, J W F.ve, L Damon, C W Mrl„ll;,n, Chas I' rli,)hrl( William WiL'v, Eilward 8 liabbitt, J P Hastings, Joseph li l-toss. Nelson E Nims, FC Hanson, James K Oiis J P Simpson, Wm A Ir 'S-jott, Geo Hasleit, N M Fesse.den, H C Whittemore, Geo CKu8-ell, William Read, .Tr, Elmiiiid \Vri;.hc, Willar.l Graves, Elijali Thaye,', WmHIhav.-r, Geo W (JmIKu, John G Hall, Wm PBnwn, Perkins (Jlev. land, Geo L Brewster, James Brounlow, D D Uo.lgkius, Fred C Bud, John Darter, Edward Buyle, James Buckley, James Fiolv, Amos Q. imi.jy, Eugene Uruwn, Henry U Urown, Wm Brown Morris, PHabbell. Joseph Young, Thiimas .'-umner, Jdsiah A Hanis, McKean Uuchaiian, Isaac BlanriK.rd, Thomas U I'reston, Samu -1 F WMudbury, HHDottiie,, ^' J MissroMii, Geo Otis Wi!ey, Jos C Walivei-; J M D W,.,cester, Edward Kiauie, J Bradbury. L Stickiiey. Wm W Peirce, Henry K. Oliver, 2d, Thomas H Devens, HK Thatcher, Geo li Lincoln, Juhn A Bates, Jr, Jacob Fciss, Zenas C llo.vland, Enoch I Clark, JohnMnlleit, Arthur Caswell, J U KittenlHM.se, Wm A l',v,rl;. r. I Scliei-nien.nrn, Wal J n 11 u.li h, W Mas,,!.. JP\. e;el!, E A Bourne. David A .\eal, Amos A Laurence, Gyles P S.oiie Naihl S. Os.'.iud E. F. Uil.i.ims Edward S. Moseley \\'.n. S:..iie P. K. Hills R, Stone R. E. .\loely M H. Fouler Wm. E. Curjier E. T. Hir.lv J. R Ireland C. E. I'lummer M. O. Htii Geo. O. Munroe Dainel P. 1 age G. P. Colby C. A. Nnleiiii Parker U.ji.erta Dana D.iiIm; David C. Naje» ^$. UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. Charles W. MiicLellan Geo. A. MacLellau Geo. E. Foule (ieo. Jaques Henry 1). Kowle Klijah Stearns Enucli H. dnelling Stuffiiri Ctiaddock ]{. K. IVcker .M. Trea.iwell Granville M. Clark W'm. C.islung ilicajah Luut D II Ulanchanl, Wm. G. Jewell Ep' raira Lombard Jacob II. Lombard G. II. Crichton E. B. Foster Ti.omas S mpron John 1. S|iear Enoch Plummer Chas, JIaynes 1). II. SIa?on Curtis U, Raymond James U..ck Erelerick Warren E. II. Eldred-e Kiehard S. Kogers Stephen i;. Wheatland John U. Silsbee AVm. P. Endicott John 13. Fisk N. Weston Henry F. King Eben. Putnam Benj. W. Stone James S. Kimball X. J. Lord ]!. A. W-sc C. F. Williams Chas. Mansfield Charles Roundy Jeremiah Pa^e Timothy Bryant John Dwyer R. Brookhouse W. H. Jackson Tsaac 0. Barnes S. F. Crockett E H. Sampson J. F. .Sampson Thomas J. Lillie E.lwm E. Smite Francis McLaughlin Geo W. Ciark M. P. Smith. John H. Smith Geo. 0. Durgin .lone Stone Benj. F. Reeves G. F. Gwinn Edw. Fobes Charles A. Rice Peter Mitchell Geo. C. S. Wentworth Chas. K. Darling J. n. Hanson M. W. Shepard Charles A. Ropes John L. Shernff Nath'l Griffin Benjamin tarstow Be.M. F. Fabens J. Henry Cunningham G. A. Puffer AVm. W. Eastham John Simmons Alex. Strong Chas. B. Rogers Andrew B. Pearson J no. Rei er A. J. Solis liichard Olney C. Berkley Johnson Sam'l B. Pierce, Jr. L. Dana Nath-l Hubbard .leremiali Martin T, Bradl e Winchester Henry H. Chandler Geo. Hyde G. Wiiithrop Coffin M. J. Miindell Benj. F. Bay ley 'i'haichor Magoun Samuel B. Tucker E, R. Scccomb Moses CI irk Samuel R. Glen Solomon Wildes B.D.avis, Jr. Thomas iluse A. H. Fettingell Henry Bartlet Wm. D. Fojter Kathl Greely Charles Peabody Edward S. Band S. A. Smith Joel Adams Steph n Allen E. G. Tucker. ,lohn Gallagher Chas. S. Mason John S. Whiting W. H. Cuuing F. J. Tinkham X. W. ColUn James Vila 1. I. Soley Jor.n Hill Addison Gage Henry A. Green George Dennie F. E. Frothingham Charles Smith Heury A. Fuller L. Beebe Sawyer S. Stone John A. Baxter A. W. Barker Aaron D. Hubbard John B. Drew Charles Henshaw Wm. Chase Albert Hobavt Mores W. Weld H. W. Prescott Southworth Shaw N. F. C, Pratt Samuel C. Cobb Geo. B. Upton. Jr. Francis P. Browne John H. B. Lang Horace Cunningham Edward Ives Chas. Heywood Timo. Dodd 0. Marland R. Dearborn J. R. Bigelow Cha-. F. Wilson Otis Drury George Burbank Sumner Flagg Richard Cliamberlain G. W. Clark Thomas P. Voe H. W. Gushing William Dehon Horatio Adams J. F. P.iest Amasa Coye Samuel Kendall John H. Dix A. J. C._Sowdon James rerkins E. Seccomb R. E. Messinger Edward Grace Dodge, Baldwin & Co. William Whall T. C. Webb N. D. Kelley,2d J. M, Bell Benj. F. Cooke Jno. L. Hunter Edward I. Browne Uriel il. Crocker F. A. Osborn Edw. D. Sohier Charles A. Welch John J. Clark Charles F. Adams F. A. Brooks Jas. D. Green Columbus Tyler Geo. Meachara Clias. A. Wells David 1'. Davis William K.-...I Sam'l L Cotter N. A. D.micU Geo. C. Richardson B. Binney J. W. Gates W. G. Stearns John Rea.l Dan'l Treadwcll Francis Bowen C. C. Feltou Henry Jones Charles Edmunds Thatcher Magoun, Jr. A. H. Coffin Jason Farr Frank Kent Chas T Barry P T Taft Benj Davenport J E Smith E N Davis lyowell Perry W Sawyer Henry Turner J H Bryant Fred Monroe Joseph B Hancock Alonzo Rand C H Vv estphal W C Cassell Alex Stowell Michael Daliny Isaac L Fessenden O F Raymond A A Frost James E Greenleaf Adolphus J Carter John S Robinson Timothy W Willard Josef h H Berrett John W Trull Henderson Inches John Revere Joseph AVhitney J R Spalding James L Gorbam E N Badger H L Daggett J B Kimball A H Batoheller Henry De Land John Adams Francis Dunn D A Varney Joseph S Perkins Isaac W How Fred K Piper AV L Tower Wm H DuBoi J H Lester John R Mullen A B Harvey Geo W E Wood Geo W Johnson Henry Tucker S P Cole Underwood Thos GBucknam D Parker J P Cross H R Sayward S F Bulkley Abel J Proctor D BKing FLF^y Chas Rice Henry Piramons Theo A Tliayer GBDuBois S B Stone Wm L Elliot John Wallace Cliarles Sanders William Dchon Daniel Draper Benjamin Pierce Andrew S. Waitt Austin K. Jones Clias, A. Young Walter P Cottle Chas T How B L Mar>h G B Smith Jas Houahton Saml E Sawyer AV A Richards John A Willard H Penniman Andrew J Johnson Jno W M Appleton J W Cathcart Jas Woodman Edward S Thomas T Mansfield Geo S Monroe Henry B Greene John A Remick John Armstrong John H Murry Fred Murry .Jacob Bur Jose de Valesquez Charles Thompson Elw Lawrence Timothy T Sawyer Edwin F Adams X G Child Jas K Frothingham John Skilton Benj G Blanchard AV H Davis Edw C AVeed Geo Billings John Hobart C D Brooks AV P Tower E H Does only in the extermination of the latter after scenes not every candid man see, that every one of these of woe, for which language is too faint; and for steps presents diiHculties of the most formidable which the liveliest fancy has no adequate images character, — difficulties for which, as far as I of horror. know, no man and no party has proposed a solu- Such being the case, some one may ask why tion? And is it, sir, for the attainment of objects does not the South fortify herself against the so manifestly impracticable, pursued, too, by the possible occurrence of sujh a catastrophe, by bloody pathways of treason and murder, that we doing away with the one great source from which w^ill allow the stupendous evil which now threat- alone it can spring ? This is a question easily ens us, to come uj^on the country ? Shall we asked, and I am not aware tliat it is our duty at jjermit this curiously compacted body politic, the the North to answer it ; but it may be observed nicest adjustment of human wisdom, to go to that great and radical changes in the framework pieces ? Will we blast this beautiful symmetric of Society, involving the relations of twelve mil- form^; paralyze this powerful arm of public lions of men, will not wait on the bidding of an strength ; smite with imbecility tliis great Na- impatient philanthropy. They can only be brought tional Intellect ? Where, sir, O whore, will be about in the lapse of time, by the steady opera- the flag of the United States ! Where our rap- tion of physical, economical, and moral causes, idly increasing influence in the family of nations ! Have those, who rebuke the South for the con- Already they are rejoicing in our divisions. The tinuance of slavery, consideied that neither the last foreign journal which I have read, in com- present generation nor the preceding one is re- menting upon tne event at Harper's Ferry, dwells sponsible for its existence? The African slave upon it as something that "will compel us to trade was prohibited by Act of Congress fifty-one keep the peace Avith the powers of Europe," and years ago, and many years earlier by the separate that means to take the law from thenr in our in- Southtrn Stales. The entire colored population, ternational relations. with the exception, perhaps, of a few hundreds I meant to have spoken of the wreck of that surreptitiously introduced, is native to the soil, magnificent and mutually beneficial commercial Their ancestors were conveyed from Africa in the intercourse which now exists between the produc- ships of Old England and New England. They ing and manufacturing States ; — of the hostile now numlier between three and four millions, tariffs in time of peace and the habitually recur- Has any person, of any party or opinion, pro- ring border wars, by which it will be annihilated, posed, in sober earnest, a practical method of I meant to have said a word of the Navy of the wholesale emancipation i* I believe most persons, United States ; and the rich inheritance of its in all i)arts of the country, are of opinion, that common glories. Shall Ave give up this ? The free labor is steadily gaining ground. It would memory of our Fathers — of those happy daj's in my judgment have already prevailed in the two when the men of the North and South stood to- northern tiers of the slavchulding States, had its gether for the country, on hard fought fields : advances not been unhappily retarded by the irri- whrn the South sent her Washington to Massa- tating agitations of the day. But has any person, chusetts, and New England sent her Greene to ■whose opinion is entitled to the slightest respect, Carolina — is all this forgotten ? "Is all the coun- UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. 17 sel that -we two have shared ;" all the joint labors to found this n;rcat Ropublic; — i^ this "all forgot ?" and will we permit this last great experiment of Confederate llcpublicanism, to become a proverb and a bye-word to the Nations ? No. fellow-cit- izens, no, a thousand times no ! This glorious Union sliall not perish ! Precious Ic^'acy of our Fathers, it shall go down, honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shall enjoy its privileges as we have done, and if we leave them poor in all besides, we will transmit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings ! Speech of Gen. Caleb Cusliing. President I,incoln said : Fellow Citizens, — Another of our most eminent and distinguished fellow citizens who has entitled himself to your confidence and honor, as well as to that of the whole country, by great services rendered in different departments of the State and of the Union, will favor you with his thoughts and counsels upon the momentous subject which occupies your attention. I have the pleasure of inviting to the platform Gen. Cushing. Gen. Cushing, thus introduced, was received with thunders of applause. He proceeded to speak as follows : Speecli of Hon. Caleb Cusliing. Mr. President : I rejoice that to you, sir, on this occasion, all speech is in the first instance to be addressed, — to you, the living representative of a name ever honored in the councils of this State and of the United States, and of blood sanctified, generation after generation, by the red baptism of the battle-field (applause) to you, who, called from the retirement of years at the voice of yoiir country's peril, stand in your venerable white hairs, lifted by age tar above those interests and passions that may move us lesser men, and stand there as a monumental marble statue of the better days of the Republic (loud applaase), the fit patriot to preside over this great assemblage of the aroused and uprising patriotism of Massachu- setts. (Renewed applause.) Oh, sir, that Web- ster and Choate were here! (Applause.) Oh, that Webster were here, to utter words of wisdom in those grave tones of his, like the deep cloud voices of the sky ! Oh, that Choate were here, to stream upon you the flashes of his mind, like the lightning of that sky ! Oh, that Webster and Choate where here, as, if living, they would be, to rebuke treason together ; to hurl upon its foul head the blazing thunderbolts of their scorn, their indignation, and their wrath ! (tumultuous cheer- ing, and cries of "Good," "Good"), and to pro- claim trumpet-tongued, to earth and to heaven, the fraternal sympathy of the brave old Common- wealth of Massachusetts for the brave old Com- monwealth of Virginia. (Renewed applause.) Oh for an hour of Webster and Choate ! Alas, alas, they are gone ; but on you, sir, (addressing ^Mr. Everett) their companion and their friend, their man ;le has descended, and nol)ly do you wear it this day. (Applause.) Islo-t nobly do you wear it, as, in such thoughts and words of transcendent eloqticnce as you alone of living men command (cheers), you have spoken here for the peace and for the honor of ilassachusetts. For me — what remains ? A humble part on this great occasion. Now, fellow-citizens, let me turn to you. And before addressing to you those reflections which occur to me as pertinent to the occasion, per- mit me to offer a word of personal preface. Let me assure you, most solemnly, that no possible thought brings me here apart from the perform- ance of my duty to myself, in the attempt, at least, to utter worthy thoughts in behalf of the tarnished honor of Massachusetts. For that, and for that alone, I stood upon this platform two years ago, and I endeavored to show to the people of Massachusetts, that this great Republic, the glory of modern civilization, that this great Repiiblie, amid the criminations and recrimina- tions, North and South, amid the conflict of interest and passions which were shaking it to its centre, seemed to be on the point of committing national suicide, in a transport of national madness. I endeavored to show you how it was that a handful of highly intellectual but most misguided men in this State of Massachusetts, animated with tr.e monomania of fanatical devo- tion to one single idea, had poisoned the con- sciences and corrupted the judgments of so many of their fellow-citizens in this Commonwealth. I showed you how, under the influence of their malign teachings, all party action, North and South, was running in the channel of a desperate and deplorable section- alism, and that, above all, here in Massachu- setts, all the political influences dominant in this State were founded upon the single emo- tion of hate. Aye, hate — treacherous, ferocious, fiendish hate—oi our fellow-citizens in the South- ern States. (Applause, and cries of "good," "good"). And I pleaded to you conciliation, mutual forbearance, reconcilement of conflicting interests, in order that the Commonwealth of INIassachusetts might resume her appropriate place as the guide of the patriotism of these United States. I pleaded unsuccessfully. I en- tered the Legislature of Massachusetts, there to combat this sectionalism in the seat of its power. I failed of success. I said to myself, in a moment of despondency. Why struggle in vain ? AVhy draw upon myself the odium of my fellow citizens by struggling in vain against this malig-n influence ? AVhat^are time and tide to me ? I can play my part in the drama of life, whether it be peace or war (cheers); and if these misguided passions are to bring upon our happy land the calamity of civil war, devastation, massacre, ruin, God will provide me a duty to perform, and the head and the hand to do and to suffer, according to the will of His good providence. (Applause.) But, gentlemen, it seemed to me still that there Avas hope. I resolved to try the experiment, and see whether or not the heart of Massachusetts was sound. I undertook the defence of three of my fellow-citizens, indicted by the State of Massa- chusetts, for the voluntary rendition of a fu- 18 UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. gitive from service found in their cu-itody, — questions of law as his counsel — able and learned that is, for the performance of what tliey thought men — found to be competent, were carried to the to be a duty to the ConstitutiDu of the United highest court of appeal of the Commonwealth of States and to their country, although in violation Virginia, and there considered. I say to you, of the unconstitutional law and unconstitutional gentlemen, that upon these facts, John Brown opinion of the State of ^Massachusetts [cheers] ; was duly and lawfully tried, convicted, sen- and there, in that humble village court-liouse at tenced and executed (applause) ; that lie render- Barnstable, there, in the presence of that upright ed up a forfeited life to the justice of the State of judge, of that conscientious jury, I did find that Virginia : — unless, gentlemen, it were the fact — for the heart of the Commonwealth was sound to the no other possible question of law could stand in core, [great cheering] ; that it needed only that the way, — that the State of Virginia had not ju- men should be reasoned with frankly, undisguised- risdiction of the ofTence committed. If the State ly, in order to dispel from their minds those delu- of Virginia had jurisdiction, then her determina- sions of one-idead fanaticism which seem to be tion of the question was final and unappeal- hurrying the Commonwealth and hurrying the able on this earth. That is the law of the land, Union into the unfathomable abyss of destruc- that is the law of the State of Massachusetts ; tipn. And now, fellow-citizens, as I stand here, and there are very many gentlemen here who well as I see here a representation of the intelligence, remember wlien some years ago, a prisoner was of the wisdom, of the virtue, of the strong hearts capitally convicted in the State of Alassachusetts, and strong hands of the people of ^Massachusetts, on due trial before our courts, how indignant hope and confidence return to my heart. [Ap- the people of Massachusetts were that certain plause.] All is not lost. Nay, nothing is lost, persons and journals of the States of New York with such sentiments, with such feelings as are and Pennsylvania should presume in-^olently to this day exhibited in Faneuil Hall. [Renewed question the legality of this action of the courts applause.] of Massachusetts. It was for us to determine that Now, gentlemen, to my own humble task. question, we said, and we said truly ; that is the Fellow-citizens — Aci izen of one of the Northern fundamental principle of state sovtreigaty — our States of this Union, at the head of other citizens, indisputable right to try a criminal tuund red- on a certain Lord's Day, on that day of holy rest, handed on our own soil, violating the laws of the entered armed — armed for murder and treason — State. entered armed, I say, into the State of Vir- Was there conflicting jurisdiction in this case ? ginia, burst open the houses of private citi- Gentlemen, it happened to me, when administer- zens, and seized them and their property by ing the laws of the United States, to render an force, and slaughtered in the streets inoffensive, opinion that the armory at Harper's Ferry is un- unarmed men. He undertook then and there to der the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, establish a revolutionary government, and proposed and in no part of the jurisdiction of the State of to arouse there, to kindle there, those flames of Virginia. That opinion was true. I know it. I civil and servile war, and to bring upon that peace- know it as well as I know the multiplication table, ful community and State all those horrors of mas- or that the square of the hypothenuse of a right sacre, desolation, devastation, rapine and ravish- angled triangle is equal to the square of the two ment which are sure to follow in the train of sides. [Loud applause.] I know it of absolute a civil and servile war. So engaged, he was knowledge. Now, then, at the opening of the arrested in the very act of blood, red-handed, trial of John Brown, his counsel said that this with his murdered victims at his feet, and held opinion was incompatible with the progress of to trial by the justice of the Commonwealth of the trial, inasmuch as John Brown must be Virginia. He was deliberately carried before indicted in the courts of the United S'tates, a court of examining magistrates ; he was, in and could not be tried in the courts of Vir- the due course of law, presented to the grand ginia. To this point of law, founded upon jury of the county ; he was by that niy opinion, the counsel for the Commonwealth grand jury indicted and arraigned before replied, improvidently, inconsiderately, unwisely, the courts of the State. Before those courts that my opinion was not good law; that it might he received not only justice, not only merciful be good law in Massachusetts, but it was not treatment, but even more than, in the ordinary good law in Virginia ; and thereupon the trial course of the administration of justice, is granted proceeded. I say that was an ill-advised sug- to prisoners in this Commonwealth, He had such gestion on the part of the counsel for the Com- counsel assigned to him as he chose: he had those monwealth, because it created the impression counsel changed at his will for other counsel, and through the Northern States that Virginia had he was deliberately and fully tried, and upon that really usurped the power of the United States. full and dcdiberate trial, he was convicted of the For the law did not rest upon my opinion. There violation of the laws ,of the State of Virginia were adjudications of court after court throughout with deliberate malice aforethought ; and upon the Union which established it as law, not in upon that conviction he was sentenced, and upon Massachusef-s only, but throughout the United that sentence he was executed by the authorities States, wherever land has been purchased for of the State of Virginia. (Applause, and cries of federal uses with consent of the State. I say, <'Good," "Good.") He was executed as having therefore, it was an ill-advised sugg'Stion of justly forfeited his life to the peace and the laws counsel. Gentlemen, if such had been the issue of Virginia. Nay, in anticipation of this, he en- on trial, I say here, what in private I have said to joyed all possible resources of argument and in- others, I myself would have" done that most in- vestigation of the law, to sec if there were any de- vid'ous thing for me to do, — I would have gone feet in the proceedings of the trial, and all such to the State of Virginia, I would have appealed UNION MEETING IN PANEUIL HALL. 19 to Judge Parker, of the Circuit Court, to Sera- "Extenuation:" "What extenuation ? Gentle- tors Mason and Hunter, and to Governor Wise, men, wo have been told that John Brown was of Virginia, — i would have appealed to them, by maddened to pcrlorm tliose acts by a sense of the every consideration of old and long friendship and wrong committed upon him, in the violent death respect, I would have appealed to their reverence of one of his sons in Kansas. Tliat is a question for the laws, I would have appealed to their sense of fact. Is it so, gentlemen? Fellow citizens, of honor and regard, not to the United States we live here in a populous Commonwealth, with only, but to the Commonwealth of Virginia, to all the securities of life and peace around us, un- desist from that procedure. Nay, I would have der the shelter, not only of the laws, but of our gone one step further ; I would have presented relations to our fellow citizens. But go with me myself before the Chief Justice of the United to one of those fertile prairies of the far States, and I would have obtained from Roger B. West; go with me to the frontier cabin of a Taney a Avrit of error to appeal that question to pioneer settler in the far West. There, gentlemen, the tribunals of the United States. [Applause.] in the dead of night, the husband repo-ing in the Why did I not ? Gentlemen, a day or two dissi- arms of his beloved wife, with their de; r little pated all the mists of this imaginary question ones around them, in the fancied repose of theix of jurisdiction. True; acts of murder, acts, if you common safety under the laws of their coun- please, of treason, acts of burglary, acts of rapine, try, they are aroused from their slumbers by the had been perpetrated upon the grounds of the treacherous approach of armed assassins. The Armory at Harper's Feri-y, but not there only ; for husband — two husbands, — are torn from the arms John Brown, in this most insane — whatever may of their wives, and ruthlessly slaughtered in cold be said of the character of the man — most criminal blood. Nay, their youthful children are brained outrage, had been guilty of half a dozen violations before their eyes. Methinks I can hear now the of law, three of them, at least, capital felonies by the wailing cry of that poor woman, Mahala Doyle — laAvs of the State of Virginia. He had perjietrated of that unhappy Louisa Wilkinson — that wailing burglary, robbery, incitement to sedition, treason, cry should smite upon the ears and enter the murder — three, at least, I say, capital felonies ; hearts of every one of us — as they cling to the and each one of those capital felonies, whatever limbs ot the assassin and pray for the deliver- other felonies he may have committed within the ance of their husbands and their children. But limits of Harper's Ferry Armory, he had perpe- they spoke to a merciless heart, for ihey spoke to trated outside the limits oi Harper's Ferry Armory, John Brown ! (A voice — " That has been de- and in the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of nied.") I say, gentlemen, deny it who will, and the Commonwealth of Virginia. [Applause.] Avho dare, t/tat man icas John Brotcn. (Loud That was the law of this case ; and I now, there- cheers.) He was there, his sword dripping with fore, say to you, gentlemen — I say it upon my the gore of those slaughtered, innoffensive, peace- judgment as a jurist, I say it on my honor as a ful, slumbering men and children — and that man — that John Brown was duly and lawfully sword came from the State of Massachusetts. I convicted, in full course of law ; that whatever say that is proved. It is proved by incontroverti- forms were involved, they were for the exclusive ble evidence. That evidence exists on record in determination cf the State of Virginia ; and there the report of the committee appointed by the was no substantial controversy either of law or House of Ilepresentatives to examine into the disor- of fact, for there was no imaginable doubt of the ders in Kansas, and has not been denied, nay, has guilt of the prisoner. Who says John Brown was again and again been impliedly admitted, bj' John notLuilty? W"ho says he did not commit bur- Brown himself. I say, that murderous act of John glary ? Wlio says he did not perpetrate invasion Brown was the deliberate initiation of civil war in and treason ? Who says he did not slay unarmed, Kansas. And by the lurid light of those blazing irioffensive men in the streets of Harper's Ferry? houses, and by the reflection of the demoniac cru- No man denies this. Nay, instead of denying elty of that man on that occasion — by all that, this, all that is said and done in regard to that is we have the key to events which might other- to assume that those acts of atrocious, ferocious wise have been yet wrapped in mystery. That is felony were meritorious acts ! I say, then, gentle- the commencement of civil war in these United men, all honor to the State of Virginia, [loud States. And it Avas in that same spirit that John applause, and cries of "good," "good"] — to her Brown, with an insane ferocity of cruelty, pro- judicial authorities, and to her executive au- posed to consign the peaceful inhabitants of the thorities ; all honor to the State of Virginia State of Virginia, the millions and millions of that this traitor and murderer, apprehended in white men and white women to servile insurrec- the very act of murder and treason, was calmly, tion and civil war, and to outrages indescribable, duly, fully, and lawfully tried and convicted ac- impossible to be imagined, worse than a million cording to tlie law of the land, not alone of the deaths. State of Virginia, but of every one of the States But it is said that John Bpoaati was insane, of the Union. (Applause.^ and therefore that he should not have been con- But then, gentlemen, in these most extraordi- victed. Was he insane ? Gentlemen, I have nary manifestations which have occurred in the many times had occasion in this Commonwealth, State of Massachusetts and elsewhere — prayer — all reflecting men have had occasion, — to con- meetings, public assemblies of rejoicing and of sider a similar question. I cannot meet it here pretended subscription (laughter and applause) — without speaking plainly. Shall I speak plain- in all these, it is said there is extenuation (if there ly ? [General cries of "Yes," "Yes."] I say, in be not other suggestions) applicable to the case, this Commonwealth of Massachusetts and in the which should change our appreciation of the adjoining State of New York, there is character of the acts of John Brown. a handfu. of men of highly intellectual 20 UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. mind, of the highest culture, literary and the assassins of Italy, who, to prevent the scientific, men who would seem to be born to progress of moderate reform, and to substi- bless their day and gi'neration — such as Wendell tute their own monomania, slauijhtered llossi at Phillips, Lloyd Garrison, Waldo Emerson, Thco- the steps of the Vatican. In Vienna the good dore Parker, and Gerrit Smith — wlio by constant Count Lemborg, and in Prague the Princess brooding upon one single idea — tliat idea if you Windischgratz, Avere assassinated in the same in- please a right one, abstractly — have come to be sane spirit of proposed political and social reform, monomaniacs of that idea, [applause,] and so That is the distinctive quality of these offences. have become utterly lost to the moral rela- The idea of John Brown is that by cold-blooded, tions of right and wrong. In tlieir private fraudulent, midnight assassination, he is to pro- relations not one of them would injure tlie mote the reform of the institutions of tlie State of hair even of my head. [Laughter.] Not one Virginia and of the Southern States. And these of them, unless upon the question of slavery ; assassins die game. Does that make them good and then such is the atrocious ferocity of mind men ? So, gentlemen, I now say, that not Only into which they have been betrayed by this was John Brown duly and legally tried and con- monomania, that they declare in so many victed, but that he was duly and lawfully exe- words, and therefore I may say it is so, their cuted, and rendered up a justly forfeited life to readiness to break down all laws, human and the justice of the State of Virginia. (Applause.) di^nne, — nay, that under the influence of this What more, gentlemen? We have had our monomania they have set up in this Common- ears filled with alleged sympathies for John wealth a public policy of assassinatiou and a Brown, of apologies for his act, of reproaches religion of hate — aye, a religion of hate, such as against the persons whom he was end:'avoring to belongs only to the condemned devils in hell, slaughter in cold blood, of sneers at the State of (applause.) I say it is a religion of hate, and of Virginia, of ridicule of the terror felt by the un- blasphemy, — oh God ! that such .hings are in this armed women and children of Virginia. For it our day. They have set up this religion of hate, is not the men of Virginia, — it is the women, — and they blasphemously call that Christianity. I it is the tender and sensitive white sisters of the put this question to yon — whether these demoniac women of Massachusetts, — who felt these terrors, passions and this truculent ferocity of pretended For them the Abolitionists have no sympathy, philanthropy upon the subject of slavery insti- but only for Jolm Brown. Gentlemen, it is not tutions have not stifled in them all there is of sympathy for John Brown. It is another eood in the human lieart, and all there is of form of the manifestation of that same intense divine in the aspirations of human hearts to God and ferocious hatred of the people of the South, and to Heaven. This they have done, and the which animates the persons of whom Ave are question is properly asked, are they sane? I speaking (applause). Hatred — hatred! Now cannot pronounce on that subject. What would the fact has been told us that in all times a commission of lunacy saj' to it ? I know not. hate must have its food of blood; aye, hate I know that the imputed insanity of John Brown must have its food of blood. How long are is that his intelligence has become perverted, that the people of Massachusetts to have their souls his heart is gangrened, that his soul is steeled continually perverted with these preachings, aye, against everthing human and conscientious by that pulpit preachin.s of hatred, tliough, thank God, same monom inia, which pervades the speeches and these blasphemous preachers of iiatred and trea- writings of Wendell Phillips and Waldo Emer- son are but one to a thousand among the admira- son. Are they insane? I say again, I know not. ble and revered clergymen of Massachusetts (ap and yet I p luse in charity, for have we not now plause). I ask you, gentlemen, how long these before us the spectacle, most painful to every well emotions of mutual hate are to go on Avithout settled heart, have we not the spectacle of one of shedding blood. Blood has begun to be shed — their number, as Avise in his day and generati on in that Avorst possible form, of treacherous, ma- as they, Avith the same ostentatious pretences of lignant, cold-hearted midnight assassination ; — good and of right, and the same crazy perver- nay, not only has there been shedding of blood, sion of Christianity and the Bible — have Ave but that shedding of blood, coming from North- not before us the spectacle of Gerrit Snith ern States, has as its avowed object to jjropagate in a hospital for lunatics in the State of New throughout the Southern States, revolution, ser- York ? (Proft)und silence.) And I do say, vile and civil war,anduniA'ersal devastation. Whj', tSiat unless all monomaniac Abolitionists are to gentlemen, is not that Avar in disguise ? Seek as you be deemed insane and incapable of distinguish- Avill to disguise it fron^ your oavu thoughts, that is ing betAveen right and wrong, in a question of the thought in the hearts of those persons Avho en- murder and of treason and of burglary and tertain these emotions. It is Avar in disguise, and of robbery, then John Brown Avas not in- it presents this extraordinary fact, gontlemen, — sane, and therefore Avas not entitled to any such a f ict as exists nowhere else upon this earth, consideration upon that pretext. And avc in any civilized country. It [)resents the extraor- know Avell that he Avould have been the la.-t to dinary fact that, Avhereas, if any citizen of ^las- assume any such pretext ; Ave know Avell that he sachusetts should fit out a hostile expedition acted Avith that stolid indifference to the atrocity against Canada, should prepare arms in the city of his acts, which in all time has distinguished of Boston, sliould raise money and troops for the political and religions assassins — Avhichmnybe purpose of invading England or France, there is found in the character of Guy FaAvkes, and which abundant law to punish that act, and to arrest animated the llavaillacs and the Jacques Clem- the offender in the prosecution of tlie crime ; but ents of France. The same spirit distingir. shed in this Union there is no law to punish the fact UNION MEETING 3N FANEUIL HALL. 21 that a citizen of Ohio, Pennsylvania or Massa- Massachusetts, but of the United States. We chusetts engages in fitting out an expedition ot are one nation. V/e are one in constitutional private war and invasion and bloodshed against bond: Ave should be one in heart and patriotic the State of Virginia. There is no law to reach devotion. Shall we not be? Shall we in Massa- it. It would seem that our forefathers, in omit- chusetts continue thus to nourish the sentiments ting to provide for such a contingency, had of mutual rancor and hostility upon an abstract acted as we are told the old Republics did question wholly beyond our reach and authority ? in regard to the crime of parricide ; they It we do so, gentlemen, we know well the conse- did not believe that anything so abominable quences. We know that not only must this federal could occur in the United States, and there- compact break by its own weight, we know not fore they provided no law to punish it. only that the time has come when we shall all Now, gentlemen, what would you think, and have to say farewell to the glories of the Union, Avhat would be your condition, if such an inva- farewell to the vaunted glories of the American sion of slaughter and of murder were attempted Union ; but when there will be for us the more ter- by citizens of Virginia _ in Massachusetts ? rible and dismal spectacle of civil war upon our Would you not think it strange that you own soil in Massachusetts. For, gentlemen, when had no protection, by any law whatever, we look forward to the consequences of a disrup- against such an act ? that you were living in the tion of this Union, is the North then to invade the Union, not to enjoy its benefits, but only to be sub- South for the purpose of carrying on an armed feet to hostile inroads from other States ? Would prosecution of these projects of interference with you not think that strange, extraordinary, in- the institutions of the South ? Will the North credible, intolerable? What would you say it undertake that? Gentlemen, if the North does that state of things went on year after year, even not undertake that, it will have sacrificed every for a generation almost. What would you say thing of peace and honor for a delusion and a if in the State of Virginia, there Avere organized shadow. Will the North do it? Let these men bands of invaders, armed by subscrijjtion socie- try. Gentlemen, are there not others, "-allant ties in Richmond, who entertained in '.heir hearts and patriotic men, — are there not others enou"-h such sentiments of philanthropic hatred towards in the State of Massachusetts, Avho, if any YOU, as would cause them to plant tliose such traitorous purpose should be attempted arms at your heart if they could reach it? against the South, Avar of invasion for the de- Would you not say, gentlemen, any open Avar is struction of the Union and the government of better than such Avar in disguise ? In open Avar the Union — are there not men enough here to we at least could meet our enemies face to face, seize the traitors by the tluoat, [loud cries of and Avith the possible chance of a gallant death "yes, yes," and great applause,] and say, "You in brave encounter Avith the foe ; but to be must Avalk over our bodies, you shall not slaughtered treacherously at midnight, and to otherwise engage in this fratricidal, suicidal, cIa-U have no remedy for that by the laAvs of the land, war Avith your felloAV-citizens of other States !" gentlemen, that is an impossible state of things to I say, that whenever this state of things approach- continue in the United States. es, the Avar Avill not be upon ilason & Dixon's And let us not lay the flattering unction to line, but it Avill be here upon the soil of Ncav our sou]s that Ave may, in the State of Massachu- England, and betAveen those who hate the Consti- setts, continue to organize expeditions of rapine tution of the country, betAveen those Avho declare and treason and assasination against the people that the Constitution is a covenant Avitli the devil of the State of Virginia, — I say, let us not and a league Avith hell — I say, there will be Avar lay that flattering unction to our souls. Nay, betAveen them, and those Avho are devotedly Ave ought not to do it. If Ave are men, if we have attached to the Constitution, and determined at asparkof manliness in us, if Ave are not utterl 3' cor- all hazards to maintain the Union. [Applause.] rupted, perverted and lost to every sense of truth Noav, gentlemen, I have long enough occupied and of honor, Ave shall say, and ought to say — it your attention. I Avill, howeA-er, suggest one is mean, it is indescribably, unspeakably mean to other train of thought of a jjractical nature ap- insist upon enjoying the benefits of the Union with- propriate to the circumstances Avhich surround us out participating in its burdens; it is treacherous to noAV in the State of Massachusetts. Gentlemen, demand the execution of the bond of Union by the Mr. "Everett has depicted to us the horrors of State of Virginia, and not execute it ourselves ; it civil and serA-ile Avar. We have seen Avhat Avould is hy^iocritical to approach and say, "Art, thou come to us if this great and glorious Republic Avell, my brother ?" for the purpose of stabbing should, like others of the old time, explode under him under the fifth rib. I say, it Avouldbe mean, the convulsions of civil Avrath, and go doAvn in de- treacherous, hypocritical, to pretend that that struction and darkness to the realms of Erebus and* state of things is to continue, and therefore Ave Nox. We haA'e seen the danger. Is there a reme- ar. here assembled to discountenance all such dy : Can Ave avert these CA'ils ? Can Ave contri- sentiments, all such passions, and all such crim- bute to avert them ? We can, you can, Gentle- inal enterprises on the part of the people of the men, it is most remarkable in the present condi- Northern States against those of the Southern. tion of the State of Massachusetts, that more We vaunt the greatness of the United States : than one-half of the registered voters of the Com- our memories are filled Avith the reminiscences ot monwealth do obstinately and persistently re- the glories of the Revolution : Ave look back upon fuse to exercise the electiA-e franchise ; aye, more the Washirgtons, the Greenes and the Lincolns of than one-half the registered voters of Massachu- the days of the Revolution, and Ave say setts. And yet, the government of a state is that these heroes and demigods are not that Avhich the suffrages of its people provide, the heroes and demigods of Vii-ginia oi The public opinion of a state is that Avhich a 22 UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. majority, an apparent majority, ot its people pro- majesty of your might, people of Massachusetts — nouncc. "What is the voice of a majority of the rise in the majesty of your might, and redeem the people of this State ? I say, more than one-half honor and the fame of the good old Common- of its registered voters have not, either in speech -wealth. [Enthusiastic Cheering.] or act, expressed themselves. They seem to have commenced at last to discharge that great civil duty here to-day in Faneuil ILiU. Will they go on from .vords to acts ? Will they, by their acts, ^^^^ invitation to gek. pierce. manliest their devotion and attachment to the honor of M:issachusctts ? Gentlemen, I speak Boston, Dec. 3, 1859. here for no party. I have my own party prepos- Dear Sir, — In view of the present disturbed con- sessions, strong enough, as you all know, but I dition of public sentiment, and the dangers which say I speak for no party here. But I would that threaten our Union, it is proposed that citizens of you, the 120.000 registered votci^ of Massachu- Massachusetts who honor and cherish the Union- setts who do not vote, and to whom belong the , ^ • . • xi. /-. .-. .• <• .i, tt •. j , , £• .1 o. .. 11 .. 1 ^ who mean to maintain the Constitution of the United voice and vote ot the btate, would act, and not „ i , ■ , , , leave the government of the State, as you do, in ^^^^^^^ """"^ faithfully to carry out all its requirements the hands of 58,000 voters, less than one-fourth and obligations, assemble in Faneuil Hall, on Thurs- of the registered voters of the State. I would day the eighth day of December, instant, at eleven that you would act. If you do not like the o'clock in the forenoon. opinions of either of the parties, now di\-iding Your presence on the proposed occasion would give the country, rise in the majesty of your strength, especial gratification; and maywe not hope that it and crush them all ! (Applause.) [A voive- ^^.^^ ^^ j^,^ ^^^ ^^ ^^.^^ ^^.^^ ^^^^^^ ^.^.^ 1 hey will do It at the proper time. 1 shall re- ^ ,, . , , , , . , -.r joice, .ir, at anv party defeat which may befall zens of all parties, who honor and chensh the Union, me, so that thc'Commonwealth be restored to its "^ t>"s manifestation of devotion to the Constitution proper place in that resplendent galaxy of the of the United States, and the continued peaceful pros constellations of the Union. perity of ihe Republic. Gentlemen, a band of drunken mutineers has With great respect, seized hold of the political opinion of this Com- Your obedient servants monwcalth, — avowed and proclaimed enemies of \V^,i. ArrLETOx the Constitution of the United States: nay, equal- Franklin Haven, I ly clamorous enemies of the Constitution of the Henry J. Gardner, | State of Massachusetts; for these same persons de- LeverettSaltonstall, I -p ^. nounce, vituperate, and calumniate, with impar- George Lunt, / Coj^jn^ijtgg tiality of wrath, both the parties which now John T. Heard divide the Commonwealth. Did not Wendell ^:1:R\^A Phillips lately let out his heart in the infa- mous adjuration, "God damn Massachusetts ?" I say, a band of drunken mutineers has seized hold of the control of the public opinion of the State. Where is the helmsman ? W^ho is he ? [A voice, " BuRNHAM." This response excited shouts of laughter. So apt seemed the answer, that every following letter from Gen. Pierce : man in the hall, ludicrous as it was was for a Concord, N. H., December 7, 1859. moment thrown from his gravity.] Where, I ask, Gentlemen : I am honoredJ)v the recention of your is the helmsman ? Has he sold himself to the iru- letter of the third instant, informing me that " it is tineers? No, gentlemen; but the mutineers stand proposed that ci'izens of Massachusetts, who honor ■with a pistol at his head, commanding him to and cherish the Union, who mean to maintain the obey or die ! And so the good ship of Constitution of the United States, and faithfully to State drifts on,— drifts, drifts, with the storm carry out all its requirements and obligations assem- howling around her, drifts on towards the gulf ^^ '"^ faneuil Hall on Thursday, the eighth day of 1} r.- -xi .1 1.1 , n i- .1 ■ ^ a December lustant; and inviting me to be present on of perdition, with the black li;ig of the pirate fly- ^j^^^^ occasion. ing at the mizen : aye, and the piratical death's- Twenty-five years ago, one would have asked invol- liead at the fore ; black, black all over — from stem untarily, upon reading a letter like that before me, to stern and from truck to keelson. I say, the what are the dangers which threaten the Union ; good ship of state drifts on to perdition. [Loud and where are the men who do not honor and cherish that prolonged applause.] And where are you, the Union", who do not 'mean to maintain the Constitu- cifzens of :Massachusetts, who should be her offi- ^'on of the United btates and fait hfully^to carry out 1 ■^ n^u ,. ^ \ ■ ■ e ■ U4. 1 -.i all its requirements and oblif;ations .■' Cculd we not cc.-s and crew ? Ihat good shiu is freighted with ^^ ^J^^ f,,^ hUnseU, have promptly answered,-the ail your earthly hopes— you and your wives and dangers, if they exist, are too remote, and the men your dear children, are there as passengers, and too inconsiderable in numbers, and too wild and cx- you all sit in torpid apathy, or shameful indeci- travagant in the principles and purposes which they sion, or sullen despair. VTou sit and see the avow, to make ihem the cause of even serious consid- drunken mutineers, as they are about to blow up eraiion, much less of apprehension and disquietude. the ship and all it contains, and vou do not move "."^\ »V' ^°-^*y ■ , ^^°)'' '^ '\ ^° ^': to-niorr..w when „T„ , . ,„„i, _ c „, _,.: , ' ,1 t^, „„„,.!,„ patriotic hearts will beat in unison in the old Cradle a hand to rescue her from run, and to carry her J,f Liberty, and patriotic lips will repeat the senti- back to the path of peace and security. I appeal ^g^^g and doctrines which were enunciated there more to you, citizens ot Massachusetts, I implore you, than eighty years ago, while the men of Virginia were to awake from this lethargy! Rise, I say, in the preparing" their crude but trusty weapons, not cspe- SlDNEY WeRSTER, To the Hon. Franklin Pierce. LETTER FROM EX-PRESIDENT FRANKLIN PIERCE. Leverett Saltonstall, Esq., here read the UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. 23 cially to protect their own borders, which have now tinue to enjoy the multiplied and multiplying bless- been ruthlessly invaded in violation of all law, human ings of the peerless inheritance which has been trans- and divine, but to come to Massachusetts and mingle mitted to us. If otherwise, fanaticism has not mis- their blood with that of our fathers in defence of the taken the sia;nificance of its emblem, — the natioiial common cause. flag with " the Union down." That flag has waved Undisputed r''quirements of the Constitution, af- through three foreign wars, with the Union vp ; fecting the riuhts, the security of life and property of cheering the hearts of brave men, on sea and land, the sons of Virginia's revolutionary men, are set at wherever its folds have unrolled in the smoke of bat- nought. Lessons inculcating disobedience to such tie! How many of our countrymen, as they have requirements have been scattered broadcast in our seen it floating from the mast-head in a foreign port, community, and have borne their fruits, not merely in or giving its ample sweep to the breeze over a consu- the exhibition of an insurrectionary spirit, but in an lar office, have proudly and exultingly exclaimed : "I actual invasion of a sister State t,y an armed organiza- am an American citizen, and tliere is the ensign tion, the objects of which are not disguised. This is which commands for me respect and security, wher- not all. Tne invasion, and the overt acts of treason e\er throughout the wide world I may roam, or and murder, are openly justified and appla\ided at wherever I may choose temporarily to dwell I" How largenieeiings of men and women in your midst. one would shut his eyes, and cover his face in shame This is a sad truth, but not disheartening. It may and sorrow, if he teiieved he were destined to see be well that circumstances have occurred" to arouse the day when that flag will float no more. And yet us from our lethargy, and to compel us to open our if agitators and conspirators can have their way, it eyes, as if from ttie delusion of a dream, to the near- must go dotvn in darkness and blood. In a Republic ness and magnitude of impending calamities. It is like ours, law alone upholds it, and wiien that loses comparatively safe to look dangers in the face, and its power, all human power to save is lost. If such meet them on the advance, but fatal to be appalled overwhelming disaster to humanity is to overtake us, by them. I, for one, will not try to peer through the darkness I repeat that the aspect of affairs, dark as it con- and blackness, or to foreknow the end. fessedly is, still is not disheartening, because I be- Let us act calmly and deliberately, without passion lieve there are in New England, and throughout the and without acrimony. Let us take no hasty or nar- Middle and North Western States, multitudes of row view of the causes which have produced the dan- conscientious and patriotic c'tizens, moved, it may gers we would meet, and if possible avert. It is not be at this moment, by sentiments differing widely the recent invasion of Virginia which sliould awaken from those which will animate you to-morrow, but our strongest apnreheusion, but the teachings, still who, nevertheless, would not willfully and deliberate- vehemently persisted in, from which it sprung, with ly shake a single column which/sustains the fabric of the inevitable necessity which evohes the effect from our existin.- institutions, — multitudes who have been the cause. misled upon the question of duty and personal obli- So, again, it is to be remembered that those who gations, and who now, when they have practical illus- boldly approve and applaud the acts of treason and tration, drawn in blood, of the Jrachings to which murder perpetrated within the limits of Virginia, are they have listened, and to which they may have given not the most dangerous enemies of the Constitution their assent, will pause, long enough, at least, to take and the Union. Subtle, crafty men, who, passing by counsel ot intelligent reason. duties and obligations, habitually appeal to sectional \ou, upon the soil of Massachusetts, where the prejudices and passions, by denouncing the institutions first blood of the revolution was shed, and where and people of the South, and thus inflame the North- Washington took command of the Army in one of the em mind to the pitch of resistance to the clear pro- darkest periods in our Country's history, cannot gaze visions of the fundamental law, — who, under plausible listlessly upon the gathering clouds, and will not bow pretexts, addressed to those prejudices and passions, tamely befi)re the coming storm. We may all have pass local laws designed to evade Constitutional obli- regarded wiih too much indifference the swelling tide gations, are really and truly, whether they believe it of reckless fanaticism, but we are not too lace to or not, the men who are hurrying us upon swift de- breast it now. If honest men, who really think the struction. Union worth preserving, will stand forth in the ma- Your reprobation of the ethical and political teach- jesty and strength of patriotism and law, and with ings which ins|)ire this line of conduct, will, I am united purpose and becoming energy, they can and sure, be pronounced in tones so earnest that no man will roll that tide back, to the dismay and discomfiture can mistake their import. You ^^ill show, on your of all conspirators against the public peace, and the part, readiness to give to fellow-citizen iof other integrity of the sacred bond which holds us a united States such just legislation by Congress, as s hall people. provide for the punishment, not only of actual inva- I am glad to perceive that your meeting is to be sion, but for the setting on foot of armed expeditions, composed of citizens of various parties. The high and thus do what you may effectually to secure, by resolve and the solemn duty to which 1 have just constitutional enactments, each State against violence adverted rise above the range of thoughts and motives from any other. I shall 1 ope thst your meeting will which ordinarily connect themselves with political awaken a spirit, which will lead Massachusetts and organization, and party success. If we are true to Virginia to arasp again reciprocally the hand of af- ourselves ; if we revere the memory, or appreciate the fectionate sympathy and support — of love and honor services of our Fathers, we shall forget, in the exi- — as they did in 177G, when, as tlie elder and more gency of this crisis, that there is, or ever has been, such powerful of the colonies, they made up the issue of thing as party in the ordinary acceptation of the term, blood against the power of an unjust Parliament. At all events, W3 will forget it, until, through our Why should it not be so ? Is there any cause of steady, united efforts, we see the authority of the alienation, on our part, which did not exist at the for- Constitution vindicated, and the Union reposing again mation of the Government? When have the people securely upon its old foundations. of the South invaded our territory, slain our people, You are right in assuming that this is no time for or conveyed away our property ? Why sliould not hesitancy ; no time for doubting, halting, half-way the authority of New Hampshire honor and cherish professions, or, indeed, for mere professions of any the authority of Mississippi ? Are they not each kind. It is a time for resolute purpose, to be followed sovereign, but yet are they not bound up to- by decisive, consistent action. gether in the endearing bond of a common Shall the fundamental law of the land be obeyed, country ? To establish upon a firm footing these re- nol with evasive reluctance, but in good fidelity ? lations between all the States what is required but Have we the power to enforce obedience to it, and cordial, loyal, manly recognition and enforcement, in will we exercise that power ? It so, then may we Cv>n- spirit and in act, of all the requirements of the com- 24 UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. pact cnforrd into bv the fathers who have passed to their reward ? Can it be that there is, anions any large portion of our people, North or South, settled purpose to accept the benefits, but deny the burthens of the Constitution ? Have all sentiments of patriot- ism and honor perished together ? If that time has come, or you discern its approach, then, indeed, should you, who desire to live under this Constitu- tion, expounded by the auiiust tribunal into whose charge our fathers gave its exposition, raise the voice of warning, and save, if it be possible, ttie voice of woe. But it has not come, and it is still in your power to say it shall not. There is no inevitable, irre- sistible impulse hurrying it forward. I deny, in the name of all that is most sacred and precious in our inheritance, that there is an element of "irrepressil)Ie conflict" between the Southern and Northern members of this confederation. The doc- trine is as unsound and untrue as it is fearful. It is contradicted by the unbroken ex[)erience of the first fifty yei.rs of our history. It would have been the price of the loss of reputation for life, to have uttered it while the men wtio fought the battles of the revolu- tion, and framed the Ctmstitution were yet alive. No ! It has not come, and with the blessing of God, upon the exertions of good and patriotic men, it will never be nearer. I have faith in the power of your efforts, my fellow citizens, — faith that your example, in this relation, will be followed, and your action imitated, not only in other parts of Massachusetts, but by citizens of other States, who appreciate the blessings which the Con- stitution has coi.ferred upon tneui, and who, come what may, intend on their native soil, and with their children around them, to claim its protection and up- hold its authnricy. I have faith, above all, that the continued favor of the God of our fathers, who watched over our feeble political beginnings, who preserved us through the innumerable perils of the struggle for na- tionality, will yet make the wrath of man subservient to the peace and durability of this Union. With thanks for your remembrance of me on this occasion, and regrets that it is impossible for me to meet you in Faneuil Hall, I am, gentlemen, very truly. Your friend. FuANKLiN Pierce. Hon. Wm. ArrLETON, Franklin Haven, Henry J. Gardner, LevERHTT SaLTONSTALL, ^ •n'„„„„t:,.„ n Ut^^ George Lunt. VExecutive Committee John T. Heard, S. T. Dana, Sidney Webster, THE COMMITTEE'S INVITATION. Boston, Dec. 3, 1859. Sir, — The undersigned, on behalf of the Executive Comniitieo, respectfully invite you to be present at a Public Meeting, to be held at Faneuil Hall, in this City, on THURSD.\Y NEXT, December 8, at 11 o'clock, A. M., to express National Sintiments, in view of the growing division of feeling between the Northern and Souti.ern parts of the Union. It is the desire of the Coniiniltee. that you should permit, y.ur name to be used as that of one of the Vi^e Presidents. An immediate reply is requested. Your obedient servants, Wm. ArrLETON, Franklin Haven, George Lint, Sidney Wehster, Henry J. Gardner, Leverett Saltonstall. "We give here a portion of the letters received by the Committee : letter from governor morton. Taunton, D?c. 5, 1859. ; Monday Evening ^ Gentlemen, — Your communication of 3d instant, notifying me of a Public Meeting to be holden in Fan- euil Hall, on Thursday next, has just been received. No political subject can be of deeper interest to all the people of the United States, than the one which you propose to discuss; and no place better calculated to evoke liberal and patriotic sentiments in its consid- eration. It would give me great pleasure to join in the proceedings, and to perform any part to the best of my power, which might promote the spirit of union. But my present infirmities deny me the pleasure of joining in your assemblage, or any other very numerous meeting. With my most fervent prayers, for the suppression of any " growing division of feeling between different sections or individuals of our country," I am, with high consideration and respect, for those whom you represent, as well as yourselves. Your obedient servant, Marcus Morton. letter from governor CLIFFORD. New Bedford, Dec. 5, 1859. Gentlemen, — I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your invitation " to be present at a public meeting to be heM at Faneuil Hall on Thursday next, to express national sentiments in view of the growing division of feeling between the Northern and South- ern parts of the Union," and " to permit my name to be used as that of one of the Vice Presidents." With the object of the proposed meeting, as ex- pressed in your note, I heartily sympathise, and my name is quite at its service. But as a professional engagement for that day may render it ini; ossible for me to be present, I desire to state very briefly through this medium, the views I should feel it to be my duty to express if I participated in its proceedings. I think it is clearly the duty of every Northern man, who has patriotism enough to embrace in his regards the whole of our common country, and who is unwil- ling to be ranked " ilh the sympathisers and abettors of murder and rapine, and an unprovoked interference with the peace and safety of a sister State, to do what he can to disabuse the minds of our fellow-citizens of the South of the impression that this class of persons comprises any considerable portion of the people of the Northern States. I deeply regret that there should be found anv amongst us, so regardless of all law, human and divine, and so wanting in a just and generous spirit of loyalty to the Union and the Con- stitution, as to give the countenance of their silence, even, much more of their vituperative speech, to the recent atrocious incursion of a band of marauders and murderers into the State of Virginia. To every one who participated in that enormous crime, whether by action, or by counsel, the sentence of the law, fairly administered, whenever and wherev- er it can reach him, is (.qual anu exact justice — and nothing more. But in withholding our sympathy and support from those in the North who would imperil the Union of these States by such acts as tend directly to its disso- lution, we have the right to claim from our fellow-citi- zens of the South, that their sympathy and support shall not be given to those whose official declarations of treason actually i hreaten its dissolution. Espe- cially when the ground on which such a throat is uttered is that recently assigned by the Govornor of South Carolina, as a new test of ineligibility to the office of UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. 25 President, not found in the Constitution of the United 8th inst, has been just received. Believing that the States. time has a^ain arrived when a demonstration of con- Both these classes of persons, North and South, or fidence in llie Constitution of our Country and in wherever their disloyal sentiments are manifested, Ilepublican govern.nent is calculated to strengthen must be equally and unsparingly condemned, by all and secure them, because demagogues have again put true-hearted lovers of their country and their whole them in peril, I accept the invitation and ihe posi- country, whose resolves of unswerving fidelity to the tion you do me the honor to assign me, with much Union and the Constitution, I trust will go forth w'iih satisfaction, and remain, gentlemen, your obliged healing and invigorating power from your gathering humble servant, B. Flint King. at Faneuil Hall. I am, e-tntlemen, With great respect, Your friend and fellow-citizen, John H. Clifford. Gentlemen, LETTER FROM SAMUEL L. CROCKER. Taunton, Dec. 5, 1859. LETTER FROM A. PHELPS, JR. Springfield, Dec. 5, 1859. Hon. "Wm. Appleton. Sir, — By letter dated Bos- ton, Dec. 3, 1859, purporting to be signed by you and other gentlemen constituting an Executive Commit- tee, I am requested to permit my name to be used as that of one of the Vice-Presidents of a public meeting I had the honor duly to receive your ^^ ^^ j^eld at Faneuil Hall on the 8th inst, " to express note of invitation to be present at a public meetm national sentiments in view of the growing division of beheld at Faneuil Hall on Thursday next, to express fgpij^g between the Northern and Southern parts of national sentiments, in view of the growing division the Union." Inasmuch as I cordially concur in the of feeling, between the Northern and Southern p-,rts ^^^^^.^ ^f tj^g meeting I am very willing to have my 01 the Union. The object has my most cordial ap- ^^^.e used as suggested, and I shall endeavor to be proval, and you are at liberty to use my name in any present to hear patriotic sentiments uttered which way you may deem best, for Us furiherance. ,,.in, i trust, be reiterated throughout the Free Stat.s, A ery respectfuHy, and will satisfy our Southern brethren that the whole lour obd t sery t. North is not smitten with the miserable negro-phobia Sam. h. CROCKER. ^-hich so seriously threatens a dissolution of the existing federal compact. Respectfully yours, A.Phelps, Jr. LETTER from PROFESSOR FELTON. Cambridge, Dec. 3, 1859. Gentlemen, — I entirely approve of the proposed meeting in Faneuil Hall. The object of it must com- mend itself to good men of all parties. If it were a common political meeting, I should decline to have my name presented for any office connected with it ; LETTER FROM LORENZO SABINE. Boston, Dec. 5, 1859. Gentlemen, — Your note of the 3d inst, this moment received, and I promptly reply, that, " in view of the rowing division of feeling between the Northern and but the purpose for which the meeting is to be called, ■ , - ^ , tt • .. , i. infinitely transcends any of the questions at issue in Southern parts of the Union, you may make such the politics of the day. and concerns every citizen who use of my name m yoiir arrangements for the public desires to preserve tlie constitution and the govern- meeting to be held at Faneuil Hall, on Ihursday the ment, and t . save the country from civil war. 8th inst, as you deem proper. Very truly, your friend Ucgardinsi the subject in this light, I feel it my duty to comply with your request, and to " permit my name to be used as that of one of the Vice Presidents," should it continue to be the desire of the Committee. Very truly yours, C. C. Felton. Lorenzo Sabine. letter from k. j. lord. Salem, Dec. 5, 1859. Gentlemen, — I this morning received your invita on " to be present at a public meeting to be held Fanueil Hall on Thursday next, to express nation letter from j. THOMAS STEVENSON. Boston, Dec. 3, 1859. Gentlemen, — I have this morning received your note, in which you express a desire that I should per- mit my name to be used as that of one of the Vice Presidenis at the meeting to be held in Faneuil Hall on Thursday. Certainly — and it is only to be regret- ted that such should be the condition of things as to ^ ^ , ,. .. ,-, , ,, . make it necessary to obtain in advance, from any loyal tion "to be present at a public meetmg to be held at permission to use his name (however humble) Fanueil Hall on Thursday next, to express national ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^^ ^-^ co-operation, in a public meeting, sentiments m view of the growmg division of feeling .^-njch is called for the avowed nurpose of declaring between the Northern and Southern parts of the attachment to the Union and the Constitution of the Union. I accept the invitation with the greatest j y^ respectfully, your obedient servant, pleasure, and rejoice that an opportunity is given to ^ ■' ' •' -^j^ Xhos. Stevenson. me to unite with my fellow-citizens in the North, in the assurance to our brethren in the South, that the feelings which dictated the compromises of the Con- stitution still continue to actuate us and lead us to LETTER FROM GENERAL butler. preserve and to transmit unimpaired to posterity, that Boston, Dec. 6, 1859. precious legacy, which we received from our fathers. Gentlemen, — It is more than probable that an im- and to perform all the duties which it devolves upon pgrative professional engagement will prevent my us. Use my name for that of one of the Vice-Presi- personal presence with you at the public meeting in dents, as you desire, or for any other purpose to carry Paneuil Hall on Thursday next. I can have no hesi- out the object of the meeting. Respectfully your tation in joining my fellow citizens in any expression obd't serv't. N. J. Lord. letter from b. flint king. Concord, Dec. 6, 18.59. which would tend to allay the excitement of a part of our national confederacy, because of the unjustifiable raid upon their safety and domestic quiet. Let every- thing be done to assure the South, that, in spite of the toiling of bells at the death of an executed criminal. Gentlemen,-Your letter of invitation to'be pres'ent oVeurogistic speeches upon his treason a.d murders at a meeting of National Men at Faneuil Hall, oa the the great heart of the North beats true to us constitu- 26 UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. tionarobligatiors, and its pulsations are not accurate- ly to be counted by the spasmodic agirations of the few who so loudly claim to represent public 0( inion here. The only possible suggestion that can be made against the proposed meeting, would be, tliat such a demonstration would elevate into too much apparent consideration those agitators, and cause those at a dis- tance to suppose them to be. what we know they are not, the exponents of any considerable portion of the public thcuight of Massachusetts. Yet, perhaps he exigency has arisen, making it necessary to show •what is indeed the true national feeling of the Com- monwealth. If my name can be of service in this matter, it is at your disposal. Truly yours, Benj. F. Butler. LETTER FROM ISAAC DATIS. WoitcESTEH, Dec. 5, 1859. Gentlemen, — Your letter inviting me to be present at a meeting to be held at Fancuil Hall on Thursday next, to express national sentiments in view of the growing division of feeling between the Northern and Southern parts of the Union, is before me, and I heartily sympathise with the objects of the meeting, and shall endeavor to be present. I have no objec- tion to tlie committee making use of my name as sug- gested. With sentiments of great respect, I am gen- tlemen, your friend and obedient seivant, Isaac Datis. LETTER EROM GEO. B. LORING. LETTER PROM J. P. HEALY. Boston, Dec. 5, 1859. Dear Sir. — I have the honor to have received the circular letter of the Executive Coujiuiitee, appointed to make preparations for the meeting in Faneuil Hall on Thursday next, inviting me to be present at the meeting, and to permit my name to be used as that of Salem, Dec. 5, 1859. _ Gentlemen, — Your invitation to a'tend "a public meetiMK to be held at Faneuil Hall on Thursday ^^^^ ^^^^^ Vice-Presidents. Most cordially concur- next," by the Umon-loving citizens of Massacbuset s .^ ^^^ sentiments, which it is intended the meet- is receved, and I desi.e to express my thanks for jour j^ « ^j^^,j ^^ ^^^ disseminate, it will give me consideratum and my regrets that n.y presence vmU pleasure to be present and take part in the proceedings be prevented by a necessary jaurney to VVashmatoi. i„dicated by the committee. Very respectfully your The obj.ct of the meeting shou.d appeal o the patri.^^ ^^^^.^^^^ ^y^ j_'p_ ^^-^^^^ ism and hnnor of every good citizen. "1 he growing division of feeling between the Northern and Southern parts of the Union," has indeed assumed a formidable appearance; and yet every man will see that, in the midst of the impious and treasonable demonstrations which we have just witnessed, there is a =ound and healthy and religious conservatism, — a conservatism prompt to be heard in every crisis, but too unmindful of that " eternal vigilance" which may sustain good government at the ballot-box ; which will be our mgr and ain willing th? safetv and defence in all time to come, as it has been f'le ot th<- Vice-Fresid LETTER FROM MARSHALL P. AVILDER. Boston. Dec. 5, 1859. Gentlemen, — I am honored with your ciicular in relation to the proposed meeting at Faneuil Hall. I sympathize most heartily in the objpcts of the meet- nd am willing that my name should be used as " "ents on tliat occasion, or in in all time past, whenever dangers surround us. The any way that may best subserve the cause you are so use of my name, as one of the vice presidents, on an worthily seeking to advance. occasion when this conservatism, this regard for law \ours smcerely, MARSHALL P. WiLDEK. and social order, seeks expression, is a compliment for which you will please to accept my profound ac- knowledgments. Kespectfully your obedient servant, Geo. B. Lorino. letter prom e. d. reach. SriiiNGFiELD, Dec. 5, 1859. LETTER FROM R. SHERMAN. PAyvTvcKET, Dec. 5, 1859. Gentlemen, — Your invitation, " on behalf of the Executive Committee," to be present at a ineeting to be held on Thursday next, has this moment •come to hand. I shall deem it an honor to attend a meeting for the purpose indicated, and you are at liberty to Gen'lemen, — lam this moment in the receipt of make such use of my name in connexion with the your favor of the 3a inst., invjiiug me to be present at call therefor, as you may desire. Very respectfully, a public meeting in Faneuil Hall on the 8th, and ask- your obedient servant ing permission to nse my name as one of the Vice- Presidents. I do sreatlv rrjiice that from the men of BostoT. and frorf^iineui"l Hall, is to go forth a voice declaring that^^ritiniVnt and principles proclaimed atreemr mectW^M' B ston, professedly of sympa- .thy for the family'of John Brown, but really to exalt a murderer and glorify his deeds, are not the sentiment and principles of Boston and Massachusetts. What- ever the feeling of Massachusetts may be as to the in- stitution of slavery, she has not fallen so low in the_ scale of patriotism, she is not yet so lost to her posi- tion ana duty as to laud the armed invasion of a sis- ter State, as to justify and applaud the murdering of her citizens, as to embalm the memory of those whose hands are red and reeking with innocent blood. I do not ktiow that I can certainly be present on Thursday, but I am with you heart and hand. My name is at your service, and whether present or absent, I will hold myself in readiness for any service which I can render, and which you may command. With sentiments of the highest respect, your obedient servant, E. D. Beach. II. Sherman. LETTER FROM C. W. CART-WRIGHT. December 4, 1859. Gentlemen, — In reply to your note of 3d inst., I beg leave to say that 1 not only consent to have my name apiicar as one of the Vice-Presidents but shall be giatilied to have it there. I am, with much re- sptct, } our ob't servant, C. W. Cartavright. LETTER FROM D. N. CARPENTER. Greenfield, Dec. 5, 1859. Gentlemen, — Your note of 3d inst., inviting me to be present at a public meeting, to be held at Faneuil Hall, 8th inst., I have just received. The object of that meeting meets my approbation fully ; and I in- tenil to be present. Most respectfully, your obedient servant, D. N. Carpenter. UNION MEETING IN PANEUIL HALL. 27 LETTER FROM SinXEY DAKTLETT. CovuT St.. Dec. 5, 1859. Hon. Wm. Appleton. — Dear Sir, — Any use thai the Committee for arranginc; the ine tini; at Faneuil Hall ma\' please to make of my name I consent to, as the object has my hearty concurrence. My taste and hal)its make me unwillii g to address the meetinpj. Very truly yours, S. Bartlett. LETTER FROM E. F. HODGES. 42 Court St , Dec. 5, 1859. Gentlemen, — Your invltarion to attend a meeting at Fanenil Hall on the 8th inst., to express "National Sentiments," is gratefully received. I shall certainly attend, and have no d<\iht the expression of that meeting will have a healthful influence throughoutthe country. Any use of my name that seems to the Committee desirable in furtherance of the purpose of the nreeting, is cheerfully conceded. I .\m, gentle- men, very respectfully your obd't. serv't., E. F. Hodges. letter from e. b, bigelow. BoYLSTON St., Dee. 5, 1859. Gentlemen, — In reply to your communication, 3d instant, I have the honor tosay that I shall be lia[)py to have my name used as one df i he Vice Presidents of the proposed meetina; at Faneuil Hall, Thursday next, as I heartily symoafhis-^ wiiti the cause it is in- tended to promote. I am, gentlemen, very respect- fully yours, E. B. Bigelow. letter from benjamin M. FARLEY. Boston, Dec. G, 1859. Gentlenen, — I have just received your note of the 3d inst., inviting me to be present at a public meeting to be held at Faneuil Hall in this city on Thursday next at 11 o'clock A. M., to express National senti- ments in V e\v of the growing division of feeling be- tween the Northern and Soutiiern parts of the Union. I deem the meeting of the highest importance, and consider it the imperious duty of every good citizen to aid in promoting the great object of this meeting. It will afford me much pleasure to be present on that occasion, and shall feel myself much honored by the position indicated. I am very respectfully your obedient servant, Benjamin M. Farley. LETTER FROM DAVID SEARS, JR. Boston, Dec. 6, 1859. Gentlemen, — 1 cordially approve of the above meet- ing, and authorize the use of my name as one of the Vice Presidents. ' Yours, D. Sears, Jr. LETTER FROM NATHANIEL SILSBEE. Salem, Dec. 5, 1859. Gentlemen, — As 1 mnch approve the object of the meeting at Faneuil Hall to be held on Thursday next, I am willing that my name should be used in aid of it. I am very desirous to be present at the meeting, but my engagements here will probably prevent. Very respectfully your obt svt. Nath. Silsbee. LETTER FROM CHARLES THOMPSON. Gentlemen,-You. gr^'^'ih^^^ u;£^kf VecSed "^ -«- -— - hogers. this niiirning. Sympathising; fully wiih the objects of Salem, Dec. 5, i859. the proposed meeting on Thursday next, 1 cheer- Gentlemen,— Your note of 3d inst. was received this fully complv with your request, tendering vou my morning, and fully sympathizing in the object for thanks for the honor you have thus conferred upon whicn the meeting of the 8Lh inst. is called, 1 cheer- me. Very respectfilly, your obedient servant, fi^l'y submit my name to be used as you desire. Charles Thompson. ^V'lth respect, your obdt svt. IlicH. S. Rogers. letter from GEO. PEABODY. Salem, Dec. 5, 1859. Gentlemen, — I shall be most happy to cooperate with you in the pn posed meeting at Faneuil Hall in any way in which you think I can be of service. Re- spectfuiiy yours, Geo. Peabody'. LETTER from R. NEWTON. Worcester, Dec. 6, 1859. Hon. Wm. Appleton — Sir, — I have received your in- vitation to be present at a (lublic meeting to be held at Faneuil Hall on the 8rh inst. I have long believed that our political aff lirs, both State and National, were in a false position, and hope they may be im- proved. I intend to be in Boston on Thursday next, and when there your Committee will make such disposi- tion of me a< they may think proper. Respectfully your obedient, R. Newton. LETTER FROM CALEB STETSON. Br.mntiiee, Dec. 6, 1859. Gentlemen, — Your favor under date of the 3d is at hand. It will give me pleasure to render your Com- mittee any aid to exnress in co-operation with all Na- tional men of New England their adherence to the Constitution and the Union — our country — the whole country, without distinction of party. I am truly vours, Caleb Stetson. letter from b. f. hallett. Gentlemen, — I shall esteem it an honor to have my name used as one of the Vice-Presidents at the pro- posed meeting in Faneuil Hall, to express national sentiments in view of the growing division of feeling between the Northern and Southern States. Such a meeting is eminently fitting to beheld in Boston, for if Massachusetts desires to enjoy the benefits of this Union, which has made all her prosperity, her consid- erate citizens in private life must give some assurance that as a people they do not mean to violate the obli- gations of constitutional as well as civil contracts. With great respect, B. F. Hallett. LETTER FROM EDWARD A. NEWTON. PiTTsFiED, Dec. 0, 1859. Gentlemen,— I have received your letter of the 3d instant, inviting me to attend a " public meeting, to be held in Faneuil Hall, to express national senti- ments, &c.," on Thursday next. When I heard of this proposed meeting on Saturday last, I determined to attend it, at whatever inconvenience to myself; and then, and since, I have been urged by many of my neighbors, among tne most intelligent, respecta- ble, and influential citizens, to do so, and represent them. Thus, Provid-nce permitting, I will assuredly come, and deem myself much honored by being nom- inated as one of the Vice-Presidents for the occasiou. Very respectfully, Edward A. .Newtox. 28 UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. LETTER FROM LUTHER V. BELL. Chaklesto-wn, Dec. ,5, 1859. Gentlemen, — In reply to your note of the 3d inst., just received, I would say that the movement vvliich you forward has my fullest sympathy, and I shall be hapry to co-operate with you in any position in which 1 may be placed. Very faithfully yours, Luther V. Bell. LETTER FROM MOSES WILLIAMS. BosTox, Dec. 3, 1859. Gentlemen, — In your note of this date, you ask me in behalf of the Executive Committee, to be present at a public mectin":, to be held at Fancuil Hall on Tliursday next, at li o'clock, A. M., to express nation- al sentiments in view of the growing division of feel- ing between the Northern and Southern parts of the Union. You also ask me to allow my name to be used as that of one of the Vice Presidents. I thank you, gentlemen, for the honor you have done me by the above invitation. I will be present at the meet- ing, and shall esteem it a privilege, and an honor to my name, to have it named and numbered among the Vice Presidents of that meeting. Very truly and re- spectfully your friend, Moses "Williams. LETTER FROM JAS. D. GREEN. Cambridge, Dec. 5, 1859, Gentlemen, — Heartily concurring with you in sen- timent as to the object of the meeting to be held at Taneuil Hall on Thursday next, I am happy to sig- nify my accc))tance of your invitation to be present; and shall esteem it an honor to have my name used, if such be jour desire, as that of one of the Vice Presidents on the occasion. Very respectfully yours, Jas. D. Greex. LETTER FROM ALANSOX TUCKER, JR. Boston, Dec. 5, 1859. Gentlemen, — It will give me pleasure to offer not only my name, but also my purse, if needed, to pro- mote the object of your circular. Your obedient ser- vant, Alanson Tucker, Jr. LETTER FROM NATHANIEL WOOD. FiTCHRUEG, Dec. 5, 1859. Gentlemen, — Y'our letter of 3d instant, in\iting me to be present at a public meeting to be held at Faneuil Hall on Tliursday next, for the purpose therein ex- ])ressed, has been received. Permit me to say that I most cordially approve of the object of said meeting. My name is at your service — and I will endeavor to be present, if other pressing engagements will per- mit. Very respectfully your obdt. srrvt., Nathl. Wood. LETTER from GEO. MARSTON. BaKN STABLE, Dcc. 3. 1859. Gentlemen, — I have received the circular letter in- viting uie to lie present at a_ public meeting on the 8th iiist. in Fanfuil Hall. The object meets my most cordial concurrence ; and I regret that an imperative engagement in Court prevents my attendance. You have liberty to use my name as an oliiccr of the meet- ing, or in any like mar.ner, in this business. Very truly jours, Geo. Marston. " LETTER from COL. ELLIS. SoiTH Carver, Dec. G, 1859. Gentlemen, — Your favor of the 3d inst. has just been received. I most fully concur in the object of the meeting, and shall feel highly honored to have my name used in such capacity as you may deem proper.' Very truly, your obd't servant. Matt. Ellis. letter from PROFESSOR PEIRCE. Camrridoe, Dec. 3, 1859. Gentlemen, — With all my heart I accept your invi- tation for the public meeting of Thursday next, and place myself and my name at your disposal. In so holy a cause, I am grateful to be permitted to serve my country. Very respectfully, Y'our obedient servant, Benjamin Peirce. letter FROM MAJOR PHINNEY. Barnstable, Dec. 5, 1859. Gentlemen, — I have very preat pleasure in seeing a call for a National meeting at Faneuil Hall. I shall esteem it an honor to be one of its Vice Presidents. It is certainly time for all National men to awake to patriotic action. The meeting will be approved of all over our glori- ous Union, by all who are opposed to the reckless fanaticism of the hour, and I most heartily wish that similar meetings would assemble in all the counties throughout New England and the entire North. Very respectfully, your obedient servant. S. B. Phinney. LETTER FROM FREDERIC TUDOR. Boston, Dec. 3, 1859. Dear Sir, — I observe by the circular of the Com- mittee, I am asked to act as one of the Vice Presi dents of the Faneuil Hall meeting. 1 answer, I am willing in any way to contribute my feeble aid to a meeting so timely and so neces- sary. Y'our obedient servant, Frederic Tudor. LETTER FROM EDAVARD DICKINSON. Amherst, Dcc. 6, 1859. Gentlemen : I have received your circular of the 3d inst., inviting me "to be present at a public meeting to be held in Faneuil Hall on Thursday next, to ex- press National sentiments in view of the growing division of feeling betwesn the Northern and South- ern parts of the Union," and reply; That while I have no desire to appear upon the political stage in any public capacity, and perhaps do not fully appreciate the necessity or the importance of the proposed demonstration — And while I regard the tone of public sentiment, both at the North and the South, as intemperate and unpatriotic, and deserving of rebuke ; and the con- duct of many of the leading politicians in both sec- tions as unworthy of the respect or confidence of men who love the Constitution, and who regard our lie- public as a grand instrumentality, under the guidance of a wise Providence, in the scheme of universal civ- ilization and Cliristianiza'ion; and while the lowering of the standard of public morals, and the toleration of the want of integrity in public olHcers, forebodes only evil — I should rejoice, if it were consistent, to participate in a public meeting whose proceedings should savor of that true love of our country and its institutions — of that elevated patriotism which animated Washing- ton and Jefferson and Adams and Clay and Webster, and which should reooguize such men as statesmen, and hold them up liefoie the people as worthy of ad- miration and imitation. If the object i)f ths meeting is to utter only senti- ments which become us as American citizens, inde- UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. 29 pendent of party, and which will tend to strengthen the attaehinnnt of the peoi)le to the Union, to which we arc all indebted for the enjoyment of bi^h and dis- tinctive political rights and privileses as citizens and freemen at home ; and which furnishes us a passport and protection in all other lands and from all other governments, I bid you God speed. Believina; the meetina; to be called for these high purposes, I shall cordially co-operate in the adoption of any measures which have in view the promotion of public harmony, and the inculcation of correct and patriotic sentiments — always keeping in view that our Government is based on reciprocal compromises, and that each portion of our co\intry must respect these compromises ; and that each should manifest their self-respect, by showing their respect for the rights of all. Very respectfully and truly yours, Edwakd Dickinson. LETTER FROM HENRY HERSEY. HiNGHAM, Dec. 5, 1859. Dear Sir, — I received, this morning, a circular, to which your name was affixed, inviting me to be pres- ent at a meeting to be held at Faneuil Hall, on Thursday, the 8lh inst., to express national senti- ments, &c. It will give me much pleasure to be present on that occasion ; and you may say to the committee, I cheer- fully permit my name to be used in accoi dance with their desire. Very respectfully, yours, &c., Henry Hersey. LETTER FROM R. S. SPOFFORD, JR. Boston, Dec.G, 18.59. Gentlemen, — I have the the honor in reply to your letter of the 3d inst. to inform you that it will be a point of honor with nic to be present at the meeting in Faneuil Hall on Thursday next, to which it refers, and that it will give me pleasure to have my name used in this connection as you have been pleased to suggest. With sentiments of grateful acknowledgment for your attention, and of sincere personal respect, I remain, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, R. S. Spofford, Jr. LETTER from DANIEL FISHER. Edgartown, Dec. 7, 1859. Dear Sir, — The circular of the Executive Committee reached me last evening. It would very gratifying to join in the proposed meeting on Thursday next, but circumstances not under my control will prevent me from being present. I view it of great importance that there should now be an expression of national sentiments in Massa- chusetts to counteract the treasonable sympathies that have lately been manifested by Northern people. The Commttee are at liberty to use my name in any way they think proper. Respectfully, yours, Daniel Fisher. LETTER FROM JAMES H. CARLETON. Haverhill, Dec. 7, 1859. Gentlemen, — Yours of Dec. 3 found me in a sick room. I hoped to be with you, but to-day I am com- pelled to say I can be but in spirit I long to hear some of the "old Faneuil Hall" music, such as used to vibrate through the Commonwealth. Recreant sons are teaching treason and discord in places im- mortalized by patriot sires ; but thank God we have Everett, Winthrop, Hillard and a host of others, fit priests to serve at altars, whose fires were lighted by pilgrim hands. May these and others, on Thursday, religiously unmask hypocrisy, probe pretence, and dwarf treason, and once more bring acceptable offer- ings to the alter of true liberty. Progress and reform here mean forward one, back two ; and being played on a harp of a single string, the music sounds old. What we want now is a grand chorus to the tune of the "Constitu'ion and the Union : " it will be new to some, and will find a response in more hearts than you dream of. Very respectfully, Jas. H. Carle ton. LETTER from DR. JAMES JACKSON. Boston, Dec. 5, 1859. My Dear Sir, — lam not a public man, and have never taken part in any political matters, and have not any desire to do so. I regard the object proposed for the meeting on Thursday as highly important. I am old enough to remember the change produced in public affairs by the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, which went into operation in 1789. I pray for the maintenance of that Constitution ac- cording to its true intent. If possible, I shall attend the meeting on Thursday; but I fear that it will not be possible. I have not any objection to the use of my name, as proposed by your Committee. I am very truly, your friend, J. Jackson. LETTER from MAJOR TABER. New Bedford, Dec 6, 1859. Dear Sir, — I very much regret tliat business en- gagements will prevent me from being with you on the 8th inst., — the more so, as my sympathies are strongly enlisted in the movement. Trustina the demonstration will be a successful one, and exert a healthy influence on the community, I remain yours truly, I. C. Taber. LETTER from. WM. G. BATES. Westfield, Dec. 7, 1859. Gentlemen, — Your favor of Dec. 3d has just come to hand, on my return. It is impossible for me to attend at the public meeting, on the 8th ; but it would be a pleasure to hear "national sentiments" ex- pressed, which will be poorly compensated by the perusal of published reports. 1 have time only to say that I approve of any measures calculated to assure the whole country that, in all sections of it, there ex- ists a large proportion of the people who look with dis- approbation upon efforts to create "a division of feel- ing" betwfen the North and the South, and who regard such efforts not only as disgraceful to the actors, and a reproach to the community in which they originate, but exceedingly injurious to the inter- ests and character of the American Republic. You are at liberty to use my name in the way you propose ; and with the expression of my regrets that I cannot be with you, I am, very truly, VVm. G. Bates. letter from judge CURTIS. Boston, Dec. 7, 18-59. Gentlemen, — Though I cannot comply with your request to address my fellow-citizens at Faneuil Hall to-morrow, the object of the meeting has my entire approval. I understand that object to be to declare that any direct and forcible interference with slavery in Vir- ginia, or in any other State of the Union, by people of the non-slaveholning States, is a gross and bar- barous wrong, violating the public law, established for the peace of the world between States connected only by the law of nations, and still more offensive to 30 UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL. that law which should govern the Stages of this Union and on the faces of multitudes touched by a cora- and their people in their treatment of each other : Th:.t when such an interference with slavery has mon sympathy, as some patriotic emotion was been attempted, anv expression of sympathy with the , „ ■, , .1 *•„„ *.„<•*!, i i ,„ • ' , „, • , -,„ , „ . „i (T- ■ J u„ .-i^ awakened by the sentiments 01 the several speak- enterprise must justly be deemed offensive and hostile •' ^ to the State and people against whom it has beep di- ers, — bore a witness not to be mistaken of the rected : That because the principal actor in such an attempt spirit which animated them, has shown couras^e and steadiness in his wrong, and _ _ i, • j an apparent inability to appreciate its enormity, we It was our own good fortune to be so situated should not be diverted from our just judgment of his ^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ the whole; and we declare, act, by our attention to what we suppose to be the qualities or motives of the agent : that we have attended no public assembly so That John Brown, together with his confederates ■who came from or remained in the non-slaveholding thoroughly imbued with the thoughts and feel- States, undertook to make an insurrection against the laws and government ot the Slate of Virginia, which ngs becoming the occasion. The audience seemed has the same right to govern itself as the Slate of composed of men whose minds were awake to the Massachusetts has : ^ That his preparations and acts, and those of his ntense importance of the object Avliich had called confederates, present and absent, show, in the most coiivincing manner, that they contempiated not only them together,— whose hearts were swelling with civil disturbance, but bloodshed, in the execution of . „ »• i • * ^ i n * their design • pent-up emotions, longing to find adequate ex- And that it is incumbent on all who love peace and pression,— who were intent, earnest, resolved, — respect law, to feel and express a decided and unquali- fied condemnation of this enormous wrcmg, and of the and who responded, therefore, instantly, to the conduct of all who, directlv or indirectlv, favored it, ,. , ^ , , . , -, . . or who hold up the crime ' itself, or its agents, as remotest link of the electric chord,— as a stirring worthy of public approval. r .. , thought or word vibrated along the chain. It was Understanding this to be the purpose of the meet- ° ° ng, I repeat, it has my entire and hearty approval. no abstract question of mere political expediency 1 remain, gentlemen, with great respect, your edient servant, B. R. Ccktis. or even of national policy which was before them. An irreparable calamity, nearer or more remote, seemed to overhang their common country, — their .^ ^ , ^ ■ j.^ «., , noble country and its institutions, — that for which [From the Boston Courier of Dec. 9th.] their fathers bled, and which they so fondly cher- A lll^ ^jL&£!ii\l. iTifijiil. Siltjl* ished. It was a real, pressing, formidable dan- ger ; yet capable of being turned aside, if met like It would be entirely impossible to overstate the men : and no person could look upon the remarkable and most gratifying characteristics of assembly at Faneuil Hall and help feeling the powerful demonstration yesterday forenoon, at that they met it like men, — thoughtful, respon- the Old Cradle of Liberty. The morning was ible men, ready to renew their vows to the unpropitious. The lingering storm, of three or Constitution of their country, ready to fight, four days' duration, still obscured the sky, a light if need be, and conquer or die in defence of the snow descended, and every wintry indication was Union, which demagogues and fanatics had so manifest in the city. No doubt, the state of the madly put in peril. We have heard those who weather kept many of our more distant friends have witnessed much in the jiast history of the from responding to the call. But though they country pronounce that no such meeting, in point would have been cheerfully welcomed, if present, of numbers and enthusiasm, has been held in the idea of penetrating into Faneuil Hall, after Fan-^uil Hall, since revolutionary times. "\Ve the hour appointed for the meeting, was vain, can well believe th's, — we are sure it could never In fact, it was completely filled and packed in have been surpassed. We look from it for the every part, for the entire three hours and more most beneficial results in clearing away a cloud during which the exercises continued. 13ut the of prejudice, which has hung over our beloved spirit of the assembly was even more significant old Commonwealth. Say what we will — Boston than its numbers. The close attention, the earn- is the North, — more distinctly and emphatically csl feeling, which this vast crowd manifested from than any other part of it. We may well believe egining to end, — the frequent tears in the eyes thut the doings ot yesterday, therefore, will UNION MEETING IN FANEUIL IIAIX. 31 one day avert from this country the greatest evil appropriate, fi.rvent and lofty in tone than which has impended over it since the Constitu- the prayer of Ur. Bla^dcn. The resolu- tion, — that misrepresentation will be silenced, — tions submitted were every one applauded fanaticism be checked,— a barrier and an obstacle earnestly in their turn, both in parts and the interposed to the headlong course of much recent whole. In eloquence and warmth and practical madness and folly, and that more amicable rela- force, we could not but think that Mr. Everett tions may now be established between the Xorth surpassed all his previous efforts. Mr. Gushing and the South, than have existed since the period enchained the attention of the audience by a of our revolutionary history. speech, so clear, forcible and fairly overwhelming If such benefits result from the congregation of in its effect, that its influence could not be ex- the good men of Massachusetts, constituting the ceeded. The nobly patriotic letter cf Ex-Presi- vast majority of her people, who Avere so nobly dent Pierce, rising high above the considerations represented in Faneuil Hall, yesterday, we and of party, and contemplating Avith the eye of a our posterity will have good reason to bless the statesman the conditions and prospects >f the day and the occasion, to the latest moment of our country and the imperative duty of its citizens, lives. "We do not propose to make any enlarged fitly closed th proceedings. The audience wait- comments upon the exercises. As the officers ed Avith interest to the last, and Avould haA'e and speakers entered the hall, and the crowd remained hours longer for addresses from leading made way for them, the vast assembly gave the men. most undoubted signs that it rejoiced to meet The meeting Avas held in the middle of day, as once more, face to face, the men in whom they exhibiting a more marked and serious interest in might justly have confidence, at any and every the occasion. In every point of vicAv it was a most trying period in the fortunes of the country, most remarkable and significant demonstration. The speeches answer emphatically for them- Nothing failed, which Avas expected or desired, selves. Gov. Lincoln's opening remarks, but all Avas completely successful. It Avill haA-e coming from an old and venerated citizen of the most powerful and salutary influence. It is seventy-scA'en years, are in many respects re- a day and an occasion long to be remembered markable for their spirit and wisdom and high Avith the most unmeasured satisfaction in the intellectual power. Nothing could be more annals of the country. [Advertisement.] THE BOSTON COURIER, PUBLISHED BY cl^rk:, felloa^^s & co.. Basement of Old State House, THE BOSTON DAILY COURIER Alar ^ echo of other people's thoughts -no mere sycophant „ The Boston Evening Courier. The Boston at the footstool of power, but it is a power'in itself, Courier, one of the ablest journals in the Union, has mightv in forming and leading public opinion. Com- commenced the issue of an evening eel, ion, several merciulbj, ^Ae Courier is in the front rank of papers, mnnbers of which we have received. The evening, while, as a reporter of law cases 'and decisions, U \s at ^'^'^ ^'^^ morning paper, presents a remarkably hand- (hc head of the newspaper press. ?T° ^PPe^irance, and evidences of good taste and •' '.If judgment in the variety and attractiveness ot its [From the Boston Journal.] contents. The Evening Courier, we imagine, will In point of editorial talent and ability, the Courier is quickly become a favorite in the refined and intel- in the foremost rank among the American newspapers, lectual home circles, not in New England only, but throughout the Union. [From the Boston Herald, Oct. 7th, 1858.] Boston Evening Courier.- Our conservative con- [I''"""'^ t^'e Mobile Advertiser.] temporary, the Courier, which, under the management Q;^ The Boston Courier, one of the best journals in of Messrs. Clark, Fellows & Co., has become one of New England, and conducted with marked taste and the ablest journals in this country, entered a new field ability, has commenced the issue of an evening edition, of enter|»rise yesterday afternoon, bj' issuing an even- It is to contain less political matter and more iniscel- iiig edition of tlie paper. The new candidate for post laneous reading than the morning paper. So says the meri