
GREAT MEETING IN
THE PARK.
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The great Monster Mass Meeting was
held pursuant to previous announcement,
inthe Park, on Monday afternoon and even
ing. At four o'clock, Dingle's Washington
Brass Band began to discourse enlivening
music from the capacious stand erected in
front Of the City Hall, and the people be-
gan to assemble in thousands. more re-
spectacle, orderly, and intelligent audience
never gathered in that place; in fact, the
assemblage seemed composed almost who'll
ly Of those who understood their rights,
and, as far as the extension of the Excise
Law to this city is concerned, are prepared
TO maintain them, not only On the temper
ance rostrum, but at the ballot box,


At half-past four, the exercises were COM
menced with prayer, by Rev. John Dowl-
ing, after which, Daniel Cady, esq, Chair
man of the Committee of Arrangements,
introduced to the audience the Hon. Ogden
Edwards, who had been selected to preside
on the OCCASION; and the meeting was orga-
niZed as follows:


. President--Hon Ogden Edwards.


Vice Presidents-Hon Theodore Freling
huysen, Hon VIM I McCoun, Hon James
Harper, Hon Morris Franklin, Hon Thos.
NJ Woodruff, ID Wilson, M d; ELeazer
Parmly, M d; Stephen r Kirby, NJ d;
James Cockroft, M d; Meredith Reese, M
d; Anson G Phelps, VIM B Crosby, VIM
+ Leggett, VIM Jones, Peter Cooper, Dan
el F Tiemann, and Luther Jackson, esqs.
Secretary-John R Manchester, esq.
Assistants Fletcher Harper, w Dodge,
R C Bull, esqs; and B c butcher, NJ ID.


On taking the Chair, Judge Edwards
said:


Fellow Citizens We are convened fol
the purpose Of securing your co-ope ration
to extend the Excise Law oi l845 to this
city. That law in purely republican spi,
rit, referred it TO the goodpeople Of all the
towns and cities Of this State (eXcephns
the city Of New York; TO decide whether
any licenses Should be granted in their re,
speclive towns TO retail spirtuous liquors
They, by an immense majority, have deci
ded the question in the negative--a resul
most honorable to their moral character
and free, independent spirit. Here th'
question naturally presents itself, why wa
not this law extended to this city ? Ar
we so correct in our habits rs not to nee,
it or so sunk in depravity that any appea
to our moral sense was nsldered idle =
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