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Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 Perine, George E
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) History New York (N.Y.) Biography
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : A.S. Barnes & Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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political views and all religious creeds gatheredaround the statue of Washington at Union Square. Then and thereall partisan feeling was kept in abeyance, and only one sentiment—theUnion shall be pbesebvkd—was the burden of all the oratory.* When the great meeting at Union Square was held (April 20, 1801),the conspirators against the life of the nation were urging their deludedfollowers onward to seize the national capital. A cry had come up * The meeting originated in this wise : On the evening of the day when the Presidentscall for troops appeared, several gentlemen met at the house of E. H. McCurdy, Esq.,and resolved to take immediate measures for the support of the government. On thefollowing day they invited, by a printed circular, other citizens to join them in makingarrangements for a mass-meeting of citizens of all parties at Union Square, to sustainthe Federal Government in the present crisis. They met at the Chamber of Commerceand made arrangements for the great meeting.
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FOUHTII DECADE, 1800-1870. from below the Roanoke, Press on to Washington I Virginia poli-ticians had passed an ordinance of secession and invited troops fromthe Gulf States to their soil. Harpers Ferry and the Gosport Navy-Yard were passing into the hands of insurgents, and the nationalcapital, with its treasury and archives, were in imminent peril, forMaryland secessionists at its doors were active. So large was the gathering at Union Square that the- multitude wasdivided into four sections, with a president for each. At the principalstand General Dix, late of Buchanans Cabinet, presided. The otherpresidents were Hamilton Fish, ex-Mayor Ilaveineyer, and Moses 11.Grinnell. General Dix spoke of the rebellion being without provoca-tion, and said : I regard the pending contest with the secessionistsas a death-struggle for constitutional liberty and law—a contest which,if successful on their part, could only end in the establishment of adespotic government, and blot out, wherever they

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