(2887) [NEW YORK MEETING}
Texas. Great Meeting in New York. Pursuant to public notice previously given, a very large and respectable meeting of citizens convened at 8 o'clock last evening, at .Masonic Hall, to consider and adopt such measures, as might be deemed legitimate and proper, in aid of the patriotic people of Texas, in their struggle to achieve their independence, from the tyrannical government of Mexico: On motion, Samuel Swartwout, Esq. was unanimously appointed President; and Daniel Jackson, James Monroe, Alexander Hamilton, Charles A. Clinton, Silas M. Stillwell, and James Watson Webb, Vice Presidents; and Willis Hall, James L. Curtis, Asa P. Ufford, and William Van Wyck, Secretaries. The objects of the meeting were briefly and appropriately stated, by the President, when the meeting was addressed by Col. Wharton, one of the Texian Commissioners, in a speech of thrilling power and eloquence, in which he depicted in bold and glowing language, the wrongs, the injuries, the sufferings, and the noble struggle of the patriotic people of Texas, and in a strain of sublime and touching pathos, appealed to the feelings, and invoked the pecuniary assistance of the citizens of New-York in behalf of his suffering countrymen, whom he declared might be exterminated, but could never be conquered. His speech was received with thunders of applause. He was followed by Dr. Archer and Col. Austin, the other commissioners, who addressed the meeting at considerable length, and gave a history of the oppressions and tyrannies practiced upon the people of Texas, justified their efforts to establish their independence, compared their present struggle to the determined spirit that animated the fathers of our revolution to strike for Liberty, and Freemen's Rights. Willis Hall, Esq. being loudly called for, after a number of interesting prefatory remarks, which were loudly applauded, offered the following resolutions: Resolved, That the cause of Texas, is the cause of Liberty; that her contest has been marked by all the features that
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