Posted on 03/15/2023 4:44:54 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
In compliance with the call issued by certain of our citizens, who desired to inaugurate a Loyal League, which should, in its membership, devote its influence and its power to the suppression of treason, and the perpetuation of the Union, an immense audience assembled at the Academy of Music last night. Tickets of admission, with Union badges, had been furnished to every loyal man or woman who desired then, and we learn that the demand was such that twenty buildings like the Academy would not have sufficed to accommodate them. Thousands of people had gathered about the doors of the Academy long before the doors were opened, and at the appointed hour they rushed in, filling every seat in the parquet and the various circles in less time than they were ever filled before.
The scene presented from the platform was most exhilaratingly magnificent. The boxes were occupied by ladies, as was a great part of the parquet, but the circles exhibited dense masses of men -- interested, cheering and enthusiastic men. On the platform were a great number of prominent citizens, among whom were:
Secretary S.P. Chase,
Dr. Lieber,
Gen. Cochrane,
Rev. Dr. Tyng,
Gen. Potter,
Mayor Opdyke,
James T. Brady,
Peter Cooper,
Cyrus W. Field,
Secretary Gideon Welles,
Gen. Wool,
Gen. Wool's Staff,
Rev. Dr. Hitchcock,
Dr. Niles,
D.D. Field,
Johnathan Sturgis,
P.M. Wetmore,
B.F. Mudgett, &c., &c.
The house having become absolutely filled at 7 o'clock, a kind of
INFORMAL MEETING
was organized by Mr. WETMORE, who said:
GEN. WETMORE'S SPEECH.
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