--In several counties in New York indignation meetings have been held to protest against the arrest of
Hon. C. L. Vallandigham.
In
Utica,
Oneida county, about 3,000 persons were present, including some returned soldiers, who evinced their approval of the course of the proceedings by loud applause:
Hon. Chas. S. Wilson,
Mayor of
Utica, prosided, assisted by-a-large number of vice presidents and secretaries.
Eloquent and impressive speeches were made by
Hon. Francis Kernan and
Elias B. Schnable, of
Pa., and dignified and earnest resolutions were adopted.
We quote the concluding resolution:
Therefore we solemnly protest against the acts of
Gen. Burniside, recited in the preamble hereof, as a defiance of the laws, an outrage upon the
Constitution, and a deadly blow at public liberty; and we call upon the
President to rescind that officer's unconstitutional and despotic order, to set aside the mock trial and illegal sentence of which
Mr. Vallandingham has been the victim, and to set the latter at liberty.
In
Troy, Rennselear county, on Saturday night, there was an immense gathering of citizens of that city and the adjoining villages.
The
Whig states the number in attendance at eight thousand.
Ex-Mayor Alfred Workyps presided.
One hundred
vice-presidents and some fifty secretaries were appointed.
The speakers were
Ira Shafer,
Esq., of this city;
Hon. D. L. Seymour and
Justice Cornelius, of
Troy.
We have the speech of
Mr. Shafer before us. It is a bold and manly expression of indignation at the attempts that are being made to despoil the citizens of their constitutional rights, and at the same time an able and convincing review of the legal questions involved.
The meeting re-adopted the series of resolutions adopted in New York city, with the following added thereto:
Resolved, That we fully and heartily endorse the language of our noble and truly patriotic Governor, addressed to the meeting assembled at
Albany, on Saturday, the 16th inst., that the arbitrary arrest and imprisonment of
Mr. Vallandigham is "an act which has brought dishonor upon our country, which is full of danger to our persons and homes, and which bears upon its front a conscious violation of law and justice."
It was the largest meeting ever held in
Troy, although got up without any extra effort, and it was particularly noticeable because of the larger number of gentlemen present, as officers and otherwise participants, who never before acted with the Democratic party.
In
Brooklyn,
Kings county, the
Democratic General Committee have appointed a sub-committee to consider the subject of the recent arbitrary arrests by the
Government, and draft resolutions expressive of the sense of the
Union Democratic General Committee.
Mr. Miller said he "hoped that the resolutions would pledge the general committee to sustain
Gov. Seymour in resisting all attempts at arbitrary arrests by the
General Government in the
State of New York.
A mass meeting of the people of
Seneca county is called to meet a Waterloo next Saturday, in vindication of the inalienable rights of American citizens to free speech, free press, trial by jury, free elections, free courts, and equal rights in the use of the mail and telegraph.
The call adds:
‘
No stock jobbing or speculating in high places at the expense of the blood and treasure of the nation!
No division of the
North in the struggle to maintain the
Union and the
Constitution!
No midnight arrests or drum-head court-martials. "No freeman shall be imprisoned, banished, or put to death except by a jury of his peers" "The war must be waged to put down rebellion at the
South, not to put down free institutions at the
North."
’
In
New Jersey, as we learn from the Trenton
True American, a wide-spread-anxiety is manifest among the people, and from all quarters demands are pouring in for a mass State Convention, "in order to renew the expression of loyalty to the
Government, fidelity to the
Constitution, and attachment to the
Union, and at the same time to demand of these in authority an equally faithful and earnest respect to the great principles of civil liberty upon which our system of Government is based.
