In Cleveland, Ohio, thousands hear speeches at a mass meeting of the National Union League

In Cleveland, Ohio, the national convention of the Union League, meeting in the city, held a massive public event.  An estimated 12,000 people in attendance heard speeches from the gathering's chairman, Rufus P. Spalding, U.S. Postmaster-General Montgomery Blair, who called slavery the "black opium drug" of the South, James Lane of Kansas, Owen Lovejoy, John A. Bingham, and other national figures.  (By John Osborne)  
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"Loyal Men in Council : The Union League Convention at Cleveland, Ohio," Chicago Tribune, May 21, 1863, p. 1. 
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