New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-12
Great Indignation Meeting
ON IaEaYE1rrE, SnIraPE

Great Indignation Meeting
ON L.aF.aYETTE SQUARE.
1t having been announced at the great meet
ing at the Arcade on Thursday night last, that
similar meeting would take place last night,
on Lafayette Square, for the purpose of giving
another testimony of the deep indignation felt
by the community at tho late high handed and
insane outrage perpetrated by the slaves of Span
ish Royalty in Havana towards the U. S. Mail
Ship Crescent City, great preparations were
made for the event. Stands were erected in the
middle Of the square, on North street, next to
the American Theatre, and meetings were also
organized fronting the square under the porticos
Of the Presbyterian Church and Of the City Hall
Long before the appointed hour, all the ave-
nues leading to the places of meeting were
sthronged by excited thousands. Soon, from the
crowds that surrounded them, the approach to
the stands became labor Of perseverance and
strength.
The meeting was announced by the firing of
thirty two guns, and rockets were let off, illu-
minating with their gorgeous colors the city far
and wide. The interior of the square and the
bordering streets were filed to such degree as
W pSCuiHG ailuVSl ImptSStDie IuS uuluDeIS
present were variously estimated at from fifteen
to twenty-five thousand. No eye could take in
the vast Of restless, billowng, excited masses
The meeting around the main stand, in the
centre Of the square, was called to order by Col.
VIM. Monaghan, who nominated the following
officers:
PREspENT--Col. VIM. Christy.
INSTRUMENTATION A Crossman, Gen John l.
Lewis, Jennings, Gen ] B Plauche Chas NJ Water
man, Hon NJ Buchanan, Hon Joseph Genois, Hon j l.
Winter, Hon seuzeneau Hon W vanght Hon La
nedy Freret. q M Pinckard Hon Emile Lasere Cuti-
bert Bn!litt, 8 P Wilson. Hon Price, Il w Adams,
Gen Davis Hon Bordelon, Parker, DR. Jas Jones,
Tompkins, B Sykes. II ] Carroll, Denis Corcoran.
Col Il Bier, Caldwell, Edward Boulgny Col VIM Scott
Haynes, Bonner, W Garland, Il Carman, j X Ray
burn II r Hill, W sewell, Jos Brennan Alex Walker,
N Holbrook. Patrick Irwin, Col Seymour Lathrop
J Il Maddox, DR. " Austin Col Armstrong, Col Geo
W White, NJ Howell, Jos Hopkins, Walton Walter
Turnbull, John Ladlaw D L Donovan " II Rhodes, 2 c
clyillier, Vass John Pemberton, Col r NJ McAlpin
Richardson, Thomas Gilmore, John Price, jr W Jour
dan Saml Stafford, Saml Jamson, Wilson Col Oakley
L Lusk, Marks John Fox James Mcintosh, Capt i
Leech II Wngate. Jas Ross W Robert, VIM Dyrne
Jones, Guirot George Clark George Purves, Emile
Witt, Lanata Hagan, ? Lauve, Dr. g " Cross DR. a
Edwards W Rayne, Col Wheat, Judge Jas Dunlap
" May, Charles Macs, Cummings J Levy, A Neil
Col W Palfrey, Jno r.. Shaw, I Durant, DR. r M Ora
ham A Simpson, Col Charles Daunoy, Q Pierson, W
Grce, JOS IL Moore Col VIM Monaghan, Il P White, Capt
Jas Stockton Gen Angustin Durant, John NJ Bell.
Perry, Col II ii Booker, d Wheelehan Nixon, Corne-
liue Connor Thompson Greenfield NJ G Edwards, A L
sewel, Miles Judson Coz J Slater, Marcus Patton
Richard Condor, NJ Summers, Col W Mullen. DR.
Common, Gen Lemy, A Fabre Adolphe Layet c Rose
lius Jas Connolly, W Tuft, Moses Eastman W Lytlc
charlss pnas Judge nisstana Blake et
sard Louis sere, Mchon, b Ieefe J Barnett, Gen
VIM Debuys, Felix Forstall Blanc, Kerr, Sidney
John Burke Edward segot Col Geo IIeyl Col Charles
Labuzan, g Deferriet j Cotton, Col i IL Claiborne.
Col Campbell, DR. Thos Hunt, Brother Col Georg.
May John Holmes VIM Flemming Geo Hillman, Jas L
kathman J L Matthews NJ. Crozet, Francois calonge,
Decker Capt Peterson Adolphe Boudousquie, Mar
tin Blache, jules Lavergne, W II Cook, Capt Smith
Capt Williams, Patrick Gardner Chandler Burr james
Wilson Alfred Stickney Devergnay Farar A Shelby.
~ Foutinett Trepagnie, Florance, j J Mccormack
sEcRErARlrs-Bepj Bloomfield D Ricardo, Ed FLOYD.
Davis
Scott Haynes, VIM Monaghan, D Ricardo, j Raybun,
The band then played 'sHail Columbia" s'The
Star Spangled Banner and &c Yankee Doodle .
at the first notes Of which last there was deep,
general and prolonged shout!
Col. Wm. Christy, on assuming the Chair,
said, that he had nothing to add to what he had
said at the meeting on Thursday night, at the
Arcade. He hadsthis to say--that our flag had
been most wantonly insulted, and that we must
have an apology, or we must retaliate (Cries OF
War war give us warn) The President
made some further animated remarks, and in
troduced to the meeting Needler R. Jennings
who came forward.
Mr.. Jennings said that it was not necessary
that he should say he felt embarrassment at
being called on to address this multitudinous
assembage. He had been selected to speak to
them because he was a passenger in the steamer
Crescent City, during the voyage on which she
had been refused admittance into the port of
Havana, and that being witness to this unpre-
cedented outrage, he had been called on for his
testimony, and he would give it, He spoke of
the repeated outrages perpetrated upon our flag
by the besotted minions Of Spain, and said that
although justice had not already been visited up-
on them by the bloody hand of war, it was not be-
cause our Government was unable to ntict it
He alluded to the laurels which had been won
by our gallant Navy-of the exploits of Deca
tur, and other great Captains upon the deep, and
said it needed not the humiliation of the Span-
ish power to add one laurel TO the glorious
wreath that encircleu the bfoWS OF our naval
and military heroes. The present assembage,
he said, was an evidence of that feeling that
reigned throughout the length and breadth OF
the land-from the st. Lawrence to the Gulf, and
from the Gulf to the Pacife-of that martial
spirit which tells that the national honor shall
not be insulted with impunity. He was on
, board the Crescent City and had heard of the
/ order Of the Captain General for her exclusion
from the port of Havana. The order had been
transmitted from the Captain General to the
Spanish Minister at Washington. which refused
admission to the Crescent City with Mr.. purser
Smith on board of her. Captain Porter. on
hearing of this order, declared to the snanish
Minister that Mr.. Purser Smith had had nothipa
to do with the publication in the NewYork pa
pers of the unwelcome reports as to the state of
affairs in Cuba, and he had thought that the
Minister would inform the government at Ha-
yana of the true state of the facts, and that the
obnoxious order would be rescinded. 1t was not
done, and all know what followed Our flag
had been wantonly insulted. We claimed now,
retribution for the indignity, and he would say,
that as we were in the right, all we had to do
was to 90 abeadp' We had n treaty. with