Wheeling Times And Advertiser

GREAT REPEAL MEETING.

On Wednesday evening last, a great Repeal meeting was held in New York, marked by the most ardor and enthusiasm. The Hall was densely crowded at an early hour, and the meeting was organized by the appointment of Wm. H. Seward, late Governor of New York, as President, who, on taking the chair, was greeted with deafening peals of applause, and who made some very eloquent remarks, which are reported in the Tribune. We take the following extract:

There is another circumstance which brings me here. The last arrival by which we have received intelligence from across the Atlantic, reveals to us quite certainly the approach of a crisis which calls for the redemption of all the pledges the people of Ireland have received from this side the Atlantic. (Loud and repeated cheers.) And although there is no occasion of domestic interest which should prevail upon me to withdraw from the retirement I now enjoy, I have felt it my duty to appear before you on this occasion, to the end that, if my opinions and sentiments should be deemed of any worth by my fellow citizens, your countrymen at home might rest assured of our sympathy with the great and magnanimous efforts they are making. (Loud cheers.) Of all the blessings to human life, Peace is the most essential. She brings in her train all the other blessings of a kind Providence. I do, therefore, in the presence of so large a number of my fellow citizens, and with a due sense of my accountability, declare my opinion, that of all the blessings to which Ireland is entitled—the one of which I would be the last to deprive her, or any other nation—is the blessing of Peace.

I come, therefore, to endeavor to preserve for Ireland the peace which is now threatened: and I believe that only can be done by all the communities of civilized men, on this continent and on the other, by all the nations of Christendom, of the civilized world, declaring their earnest conviction that Ireland is right in her demands, and by making known that her struggles for justice have enlisted the sympathies of mankind. (Deafening and repeated cheers.)

I understand the object of this assembly to be to second the efforts of your countrymen at home, to obtain the Repeal of the Union, and the restoration to Ireland of a National Parliament, by lawful, peaceful, constitutional means. (Cries of 'Hear' and cheers.) To that purpose I come up and tender the expression of my sympathies, and I should be unfaithful to my observation of my fellow citizens, if I did not declare that when this truth shall be promulgated and thoroughly understood, the same sentiments will be found to animate the whole mass of the American people.—(Deafening applause.)

I see nothing to discourage or terrify us in the circumstance that the British Government, may, before it estimates aright the force of the moral opinion of mankind, threaten a resort to force. We would have them know our confidence that, force or no force, Truth, Freedom, Republican Democracy will at some day pervade the world. (Cheers.)