60 In the absence of HAMILTON FISH, who had been designated to preside over this stand, CHAKLES GOULD, of the Committee of Arrangements, was called to the Chair. Mr. GEORGE W. BLUNT read the Address. The Resolutions were read by Alderman MITCHELL, and adopted unanimously. Weigand's band having given the " Star-Spangled Banner," the first speaker introduced was Mr. ETHAN ALLEN, Assistant U. S. District Attorney, who spoke as follows : MR. ETHAN ALLEN'S SPEECH. FELLOW-CITIZENS OF NEW- YORK, Once more the tocsin sounds to arms, and freemen rally to the call. It is now nearly a century ago that mass meetings of our fathers were held in this city, to devise ways and means for the defence of that very flag, which to-day is given to the winds of Heaven, beaming defiance from every star. Fired then with the same spirit of freedom that kindles on this spot to-day, for the time throwing aside the habiliments of peace, our fathers armed themselves for vengeance and for war. The history of that war, go read it in the hearts of the American people; the trials and struggles of that war, mark them in the tear-drop which the very allusion calls to every eye ; the blessings of that war, count them in the gorgeous temples of trade that rise everywhere around you; the wisdom of that war, and the promised perpetuity of its triumphs, behold the one in our unexampled national prosperity, and the other in the impulses that like an electric flash bind heart to heart throughout this vast assemblage in the firm resolve, that, cost what it may, rebellion shall go down. [Loud applause.] Again the American people are assembled in mass meetings throughout the nation, while the States once more rock in the throes of a revolution. Once more the cry to arms reverberates throughout the land ; but this time we war against domestic foes. Treason has raised its black flag near the tomb of Washington, and the Union of our States hangs her fate upon the bayonet and the sword. Accursed be the hand that would not use the bayonet blighted be the arm that would not wield the sword in such a cause ! Everything that the American citizen holds dear hangs upon the issue of this contest. Our national honor and reputation demand that rebellion shall not triumph on our soil. In the name of our heroic dead, in the name of our numberless victories upon the battle-field, in the name of our thousand peaceful triumphs, in the name of our unexampled national prosperity, our Union must and shall be preserved. [Enthusiastic cheers.] Our peaceful triumphs ! These are really the important victories which we should be jealous to guard. They are worth fighting for ; they are worth dying for. They are fostered and multiplied under the protection of the " Union ;" otherwise the term " Union " were but empty sound. Let others recount their marshal glories ; they shall be eclipsed
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