The following were made Secretaries: Stanley G. Wight and C. Wood Davis. The President introduced the subject to the meeting in an appropriate address. At the former meeting a committee to draft resolutions to submit to the people had been appointed, composed of Thomas M. McEntee, D. Bethune Duffield, William A. Moore, Dewitt C. Holbrook, William P. Yerkes, Chaun-cey Hurlbut and Henry A. Morrow. Mr. McEutee then read the resolutions, which were unanimously adopted. They breathed a most loyal spirit, a genuine patriotism, and suggested the consideration of certain measures, in favor of raising means, both by the city government and by the citizens. Eloquent speeches were made of a highly patriotic order by Col. Henry A. Morrow, Gen. Lewis Cass, Mark Flanigan, appointed Major of the 24th, Duncan Stewart, C. I. Walker, Halmer H. Emmons, and James F. Joy. When Mr. Joy closed, the President was about putting the motion to adjourn, when Mr. Emmons started and read, with thrilling effect, the following verses, and at the end of each stanza cheer upon cheer went up: We are coming, Father Abraham—three hundred thousand more,