PROCEEDINGS OF BOARD OF ALDERMEN. The following communication was received from His Honor the Mayor, transmitting a communication from the Chamber of Commerce, relative to the state of our national affairs : MAYOR'S OFFICE, NEW-YORK, } July 1th, 1862. J To the Honorable the Common Council: GENTLEMEN, The events of the last fortnight appear to call for a renewed expression of our devotion to our country, and of our unfalt'-ring determination to sustain the Government in its efforts to suppress the rebellion. After an almost uninterrupted series of victories for half a year, we have at last met with two reverses one at Charleston and the other before Richmond which, though indecisive and temporary, do yet disappoint our confident expectations, and tend to prolong the war, supposed by some to be well-nigh ended. Upon such a disappointment, it seems fitting that we. as the official organ of the most populous and opulent city of the Republic, should repeat the declaration of unwavering constancy, which neither victory nor defeat can change, and our unalterable resolution to stand by the Government in maintaining the supremacy of the Constitution and the integrity of the country, at all hazards, and at every necessary sacrifice of life and treasure. In the presence of the great conflict in which the country is engaged, we will forget all past differences of party or opinion -for all party considerations sink into insignificance in the presence of danger to the Government itself: we will summon every loyal citizen to join us in supporting the Government, and to aid us by his services and counsel ; we will give a generous confidence to the President and all whom, in the exercise of his just authority, he thinks proper to place in positions under him ; and while we must exercise the privilege of freemen, to criticise public men, and exact from them fidelity to their trusts, vigor and promptitude in action, and such a comprehensive and we'1-considered policy, as to adapt the means to the end availing, for this purpose, of all the instrumentalities that the usages of civilized warfare will justify we will dec'are to them that our lives and fortunes are at the service of our country, and that we ask only to be informed how much is needed, and to be assured that what we give shall be faithfully and wisely applied to that service. It is one of the uses of national reverses that they serve to winnow the disloyal from the loyal. Now is the time to know who is true and who is false. The country never needed the services of traitors, and now less than ever. But she does need the services of all her loyal children, that she may not only overthrow this gigantic but causeless rebellion against her authority but may repel, with becoming spirit, the first approach to that foreign intervention in her affairs which is at times obscurely threatened, and which we cannot admit for one instant without national disgrace. Let us. then, seek out. discover, and brina: to punishment every disloyal person : and let us call on all the loyal to stand together, and to speuk and act as one man. for the safety and honor of the'r country. If we had never had a victory ; if. from the beginning of the war till now, a series of uninterrupted disasters had fallen upon our armies, we could not even then have compromised with revolt, or submitted to dismemberment, without the basest pusillanimity. But our arms have been, for the most part, victorious ; the area of the rebellion has been gradually contracted by the advances of the armies of the Union ; the great rivers of the West have been opened ; all but four of the seaports on the whole coast, from Cape Henry to the Rio Grande, have been retaken and restored to the Union. The Federal auth -rity has been re-established over many fortresses and cities, where a year ago it was contemned, and we are gradually winning them all back by the irresistible force of our arms. Our country has, therefore, no cause of discouragement, but every reason to hope, and every motive to persevere.
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