INVITATIONS TO DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS,

REQUESTING THEM TO

ADDRESS THE LOYAL NATIONAL LEAGUE AND OTHER LOYAL CITIZENS, AT THE

MASS MEETING IN UNION SQUARE,

New York, April 11th, 1863,

THE SUMTER ANNIVERSARY;

WITH REPLIES FROM MANY WHO WERE THUS INVITED.

(THE SPEECHES OF THOSE WHO ATTENDED THE MEETING ARE PRINTED IN ANOTHER PLACE.)

(COPY OF THE INVITATION.)

LOYAL NATIONAL LEAGUE.

PLEDGE.

"We, the undersigned, citizens of the United States, hereby associate ourselves under the name and title of the LOYAL NATIONAL LEAGUE.

"We pledge ourselves to unconditional loyalty to the Government of the United States, to unwavering support of its efforts to suppress the Rebellion, and to spare no endeavor to maintain unimpaired the National Unity, both in principle and territorial boundary.

"The primary object of this League is, and shall be, to bind together all loyal men, of all trades and professions, in a common union, to maintain the power, glory, and integrity of the Nation."

HALL OF THE TRAGUE, 813 BROADWAY,
MARCH 26TH,

SIR: The LOYAL NATIONAL LEAGUE, associated under the pledge above, and which has been signed by thousands throughout this city and state, as well as in other loyal States, "will hold an inaugural Mass Meeting at Union Square, on Saturday, the 11th of April next (the anniversary of the day upon which the war upon the Government was begun in the hombardment of Fort Sumter), to renew to the Government and the People of

the United States its solemn pledge and firm resolve that the unity of this nation shall not be impaired either in principle or territorial boundary, and that the Government of our fathers shall be maintained."

The LOYAL NATIONAL LEAGUE has, from its first inception, held the hope that all the Leagues throughout the country would affiliate under this simple pledge, and delegates from all similar organizations have been invited to attend this meeting.

You are respectfully requested to address this meeting, which will be national in character as in name, or, if your engagements be such as to prevent your active participation, to favor it with the expression of your views, to make a part of the ceremony of the day, an account of which will be published.

I have the honor to be, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,

LIST OF PERSONS INVITED TO SPEAK.

THE PRESIDENT of the United States.
THE VICE-PRESIDENT of the United States.
HON. WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.
S. P. CHASE, Secretary of the Treasury.
EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
GIDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy.
JOHN P. USHER, Secretary of the Interior.
MONTGOMERY BLAIR, Postmaster-General.
EDWARD BATES, Attorney-General.