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The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1860., [Electronic resource], Manufactures in Manchester, N. H. (search)
Union meeting in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Dec. 13. --The grand Union meeting called by the Mayor, assembled to-day in Independence Square. Bishop Potter, of Pa., opened the proceedings with prayer. Mayor Henry presided, assisted by a large number of Vice Presidents and Secretaries, including some of the most wealthy and influential citizens. Resolutions were read and adopted proclaiming attachment to, and reverence for, the Constitution, and an earnest and enduring love for the Union--a love not sectional, but national; deeply deploring the fact that some of the States have placed upon their statute books enactments leading to the defeat of the provisions of the Constitution, and pronouncing such acts a violation of the solemn compact; appealing for the repeal of the same, and pledging that the statute books of Pennsylvania shall be carefully searched, and every statute, if there are any such, evading the constitutional rights of sister States, be at once r