113 and exalted patriotism, it has had no parallel on this continent. The sight of the congregated thousands was calculated to make a New-Yorker feel proud of his citizenship. The unanimity of sentiment was marvelous. One loyal pulse beat through the whole mass. One foolish man, apparently of foreign birth, paraded the crowd with a white pocket-kerchief attached to a walking cane, and could not conceal his mortification that he was met everywhere by a smile of contempt. At length, however, somebody gave him a hint that he had made a fool of himself long enough, and he was glad of an excuse to " skedaddle." We have said that the unanimity of the multitudinous gathering was marvelous, and we may add that the universal sentiment was that the Federal Government should be supported in the extremest measures that might be deemed necessary for speedily as well as effectually putting down the infamous revolt of the Southern States. One naturally connects the meeting of yesterday with the great Union meeting held in the same place when first the news was received that the rebels of Charleston had commenced war against the United States by their attack upon Fort Sumter and its feeble garrison. In some respects there was a similarity between the two meetings, but in other respects a material difference. That of yesterday was much the larger, as we affirm on personal observation. This was scarcely to be anticipated, considering what liberal contributions the Empire City has made to the Federal army. The fact, however, is suggestive. In the former meeting a universal excitement had suddenly seized upon the community, and every man who loved his country felt all the maddening anguish of the insult offered to its flag, without any realization of the sacrifice that would have to be made before that insult could be properly resented and punished. Yesterday loyal men came together, after having not only counted the cost of vindicating the country's honor, but having themselves in their persons, their property or their families, actually borne a share of such sacrifice. And yet were the people yesterday even more determined and enthusiastic in their patriotism and devotion to the Union than were those in April last. Nor can we withhold our testimony respecting another important feature of yesterday's meeting. That vast multitude most unmistakably declared thems^lves in favor of increased vigor in the prosecution of the war, and of greater severity of treatment to those in arms against the Federal Government. And the speakers were manifestly of the same mind. All felt and said that lenity was thrown away upon the vindictive men who have sought, for their own aggrandizement, the severance of this glorious Union. 'Men heretofore proverbial for their conservatism public men who have in days past counseled the exhaustion of all conciliatory measures that could be employed without sacrifice of dignity and right on the part of the Federal Government merchants whose commercial connection with the South has not unnaturally rendered them averse to extreme measures against the rebels, prominent politicians, whose party sympathies and party hopes have been bound up with the South all yesterday agreed and emphatically declared that the Government must no longer hesitate to employ every power, the use of which is authorized by the laws of warfare, to put a speedy and perpetual end to the rebellion ; and the more emphatically this purpose was declared the more enthusiastic was the applause. Another gratifying feature of the meeting was that every allusion to the necessity of further enlistments in the Federal army met with a no less enthusiastic response, while the living mass that filled the Square told plainly that this city has the material for more than its proportion of the additional forces called for. No one who saw the meeting of last night and heard the yearnings and the outbursts of its patriotism can for a moment entertain any apprehension that volunteers will be lackinf to bear the banner of the Union victoriously to the extremest point of its Southern territory. We should have rejoiced greatly could the President of the United States have^een and heard what transpired in Union Park Square yesterday. He would have received a vivid and indelible impression of" this truth, that if he will but strike the rebellion heavily, promptly, decisively, a popular' support will go with him that will be irresistible. 15
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