FROM THE UNION CLUB OF BOSTON.

BOSTON, April 9, 1863.

DEAR SIR: As the Secretary of the Union Club of this city, I have the honor to receive, through you, on the 4th inst., the invitation to attend the great mass meeting to be held, on the 11th, in Union Square, extended to the Club by the Committee of the Loyal National League of New York; and I hastened to lay the same before the Executive Committee of the Club.

The Committee received it with the most cordial respect; but, after mature consideration, directed me to say to you that the Union Club was formed several weeks before the auspicious occasion on which your association was so brilliantly inaugurated, for the encouragement and dissemination of patriotic sentiment and opinion, and the promotion of intercourse of an agreeable character among patriotic men of different pursuits in life, but its membership was restricted to such as should be specially invited to join it; and one of the provisions of its Constitution is, that "The Club shall never be called upon nor permitted to act in its official or associate capacity as a club, upon any political question or subject," and that, therefore, they are reluctantly compelled to decline, on behalf of the Club, your very welcome invitation.

The Committee also directed me to extend to your Committee and to the Loyal National League of New York, the assurance of their highest respect. Fully reciprocating the pleasure you express at this renewal of our own friendly correspondence, I remain, very truly yours,

The following gentlemen, among whom will be recognized many names well known to the country as eminent in law, commerce, and science, composed the delegation from the Loyal League of Philadelphia to the assemblage of the Loyal National League at Union Square, on occasion of the Sumter Anniversary, April 11, 1863. Never before in our history has New York been honored by so distinguished a delegation from our sister city:

NAMES OF THE DELEGATES.

Morton McMichael, Chairman.

Horace Binney, Jr.,

W. H. Ashurst,

George Whitney,

James L. Claghorn,
George H. Boker,
Hon. J. I. Clark Hare,
W. E. Moorhead,
Charles Gilpin,
William H. Kern,

Cadwallader Biddle,
John Hanna,
Charles Cabot,
E. C. Markley,
C. F. Norton,
E. Carpenter,
Caleb H. Needles,
J. E. Kingley,
R. S. Scott,
W. P. Jenks,

NATIONAL SONGS

ISSUED BY THE LOYAL NATIONAL LEAGUE,

ON OCCASION OF THE SUMTER ANNIVERSARY,

APRIL 11, 1863.

ALBANY, April 7, 1863.

DEAR SIR: I received a letter from John Austin Stevens, Jr., Esq., on the fourth instant, requesting me, in behalf of the Committee of the Loyal National League, to furnish a song, to be sung at the mass meeting in New York, on the 11th instant.

It affords me great pleasure to send the accompanying lines, in response, as a humble tribute to the objects of the League.

Very respectfully, yours,

JAMES A. Roosevelt, Esq.,

ALFRED B. STREET.

Secretary of the Loyal National League.

OUR UNION.

WRITTEN FOR THE GREAT SUMTER MASS MEETING AT UNION SQUARE, APRIL 11, 1863, AT THE REQUEST OF THE LOYAL -NATIONAL LEAGUE.

BY ALFRED B. STREET.

AIR-Red, White and Blue.

OUR Union, the gift of our fathers!
In wrath roars the tempest abovel; :
The darker and nearer the danger,
The warmer and closer our love.
Though bleeding, it never shall perish
It bows, but not sinks to the blast;
Foes rush on in fury to rend it,
But we will be true to the last.

Then hail to our Union of pride!

Stand guard 'till the tempest is past!

We all, in defence of the Union,
Will rally and fight to the last.

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Our Union, ordained by Jehovah!
Man sets not the fiat aside;
As well cleave asunder the welkin,

As the one mighty system divide.
The grand Mississippi sounds ever,
From pine down to palm, the decree ;
The spindle, the corn, and the cotton,
One pæan shout, Union, to thee !

Then hail to our Union of pride!
Stand guard till the tempest is past!
We all, in defence of the Union,
Will rally and fight to the last.

Our Union! the lightning of battle,
First kindled the flame of its shrine;
The blood and the tears of our people,
Have made it forever divine.

In battle we then will sustain it,

Will strive till the triumph is won;
'Till the states form the realm of the Union,
As the sky forms the realm of the sun.

Then hail to our Union of pride!
Stand guard till the tempest is past!
We all, in defence of the Union,
Will rally and fight to the last.

THOSE SEVENTY MEN:

A TALE OF THE TIMES.

FOR THE LOYAL NATIONAL LEAGUE MEETING, ON THE SUMTER ANNIVERSARY, 1863.