37 Gen. WALBRIDGE was cheered throughout most enthusiastically, and as he was concluding, said he had prepared some resolutions, which he would read and if they met the approval of this vast, intelligent and patriotic assemblage, he would request the MAYOR to ask for their adoption. As Gen. WALBRIDGE read each one, cheer after cheer welcomed them, and when the last was concluded, the whole vast assemblage gave one unbroken and hearty Yea. The MAYOR then formally offered them again, when they were carried, amidst the most tumultuous and enthusiastic applause. Resolved, That the territorial limits of the United States, as they existed before this infamous rebellion began, and the Constitution which guarantees their existence, should forever remain one, entire, united and indivisible. Resolved, That the division of the former, and the overthrow of the latter 1 would constitute a damning crime to all eternity. Resolved, That as the blood of our slaughtered citizen soldiers, fallen in defence of constitutional liberty, cries to Heaven for redress, we declare that, to suppress this Rebellion and save the national life, the Government should call into exercise every agency employed by the Rebels themselves to make the war effective, conclusive and of short duration. Resolved, That we tender to our unfortunate countrymen, now languishing by captivity in Southern prisons, our earnest and cordial sympathy, and we beseechingly implore the Government to effect their honorable exchange and release at the earliest possible moment. Resolved, That since integrity by public servants in the discharge of official duty is the only guaranty for good government, we call upon Congress to give the authority, and the Government to execute it, by hanging upon a gibbet higher than ever Hainan hung, every official in any department of the public service, who attempts at this juncture of our public affairs to fatten upon the misfortunes of the Republic, either by defrauding the public Treasury, employing his public position to advance private pecuniary objects, or who shall be found guilty of imposing upon our brave soldiers any base article either in the food or raiment provided for them by the Government. Resolved, That Congress should provide for opening the great line of interior water communication along our Atlantic coast, capable of passing our naval fleet and our commercial marine from the waters of the Roanoke and Chesapeake Bay to the eastern terminus of Long Island, and should at once open the means of internal communication, by which our gun-boats can pass from the Mississippi through the loyal States, by the various canals and lakes, until they reach the Atlantic sea-board, by the most cheap and expeditious routes that scientific and practical knowledge may develop. Resolved, That our commercial marine, now largely in advance of any other nation, should be so organized as to aid in the means of its own defence, and that it is the duty of Congress to provide for this by incorporating a portion of the same into a " Militia of the Seas," and thus inaugurate a new element of National strength and defence, commensurate with our growing importance as a great leading maritime power.
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