69 The meeting was called to order by Judge JAMES W. WHITE, who read the call for the meeting, and nominated for Chairman Dr. FRANCIS LIEBER, who was elected with applause. R H. McCuEDY read the list of Vice-Presidents and Secretaries, which was adopted. DE. LIBBER'S REMARKS. FELLOW-CITIZENS, You have conferred on me the honor of presiding here on this important day. This is a war meeting. In the midst of a vast contest, in which many thousands of our brethren have already been slain, in which almost boundless treasures have been sacrificed, and in which reverses have not failed to break in upon the list of our victories, the President, first called upon by the governors of loyal States, has in turn, called upon us to furnish new bands of fellow-citizens, to send more brothers, more sons, so that this odious and shameless insurrection may at length be quelled. Resolutions will be read to you for your acceptance, expressing our undiminished loyalty, our firm adhesion to the principles for which we have already struggled so long, and which in this enormous war we prize with patriotic fervor, as the highest civil virtues in trying periods fortitude, perseverance and tenacity to the last. And why all this? Why this call upon the people of our city to take a renewed oath on the altar of our country, that we will be faithful and true to her, and see this war triumphantly ended, and as thoroughly carried on, until it be ended, as the ample means of a great nation will admit of. Fellow- citizens, near the beginning of this century, there was a patriotic German youth and noble poet, who sang and fought for the independence of his country, and ultimately sealed with his death on the field what he had nobly sung. It happened that he found a sealing-ring, on which was engraved an arrow, with the motto, THROUGH. This aimple arrow, and that brief word, inspired the youthful patriot with a poem, which he inscribed THROUGH, calling on his country not to waver, but to rally round the standard of his country's independence, and to fight through to a successful end what had so nobly been begun. Is this not a befitting motto for us to adopt in this grave time of our war ? Perhaps all of us have near friends or children or brothers that have fought many that have bled in that long Week's Battle ; and ought not our warcry to be Through ? Ought not our policy tobe Through, through, through ? [Great applause.] Let us call to our sceptered servants, Through, and through at once ! Let us call to our girded servants, Through ! Let us call, when foreigners may show a desire to interfere with our own affairs, already sufficiently distressing Hands off; we will not listen to any one until we are through! [Applause.] We ought to make it the watchword among ourselves, and call on one another, Through ! We ought to call on all the young, fit to bear arms, Through, through ! ! Why ? Because the most sacred and dearest interests of man in his career on this earth are involved in this struggle our material prosperity, our moral welfare, our honor, our national existence. He that shapes the history of men wills us to be a nation, and modern civilization requires countries. God has given us a noble country, may be the noblest on earth, which we will not, and cannot, allow ourselves to be robbed of.
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