Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-11-27
Indignation Meeting in Columbia.


meeting III Columbia, on Wednesday
evening, the 18th, at the State House, in
the Hal: of the ouse Of Representatives,
in sympathy with Cuba, and in favor OF
avensing the Insult given to the .Ameri.
can flag in the cold blooded butchery of
American citizens taken ON board Of the
virginius by the Spaniards.
Speeches were made by United States
Senator Robertson, Representative Eli
OFT, Judge T. j. Mackey and otherpromi-
mont gentlemen, all of them expressing
the strongest sympathy with Cuba
Amongst the speakers were several prom
inent democrats, and with one accord
they echoed the sentiment that Cuba
must be free and insult to American flag
avenged.
Under motion to appoint committee
tn draft preamble and resolutions, the
following gentlemen wereappointed, and
the meeting adjourned until Thursday
evening, the 2eah, to hear the report Of
the committee eand to listen to other
prominent speakers:--Messrs. w. A.
Hayne, r. J. Mackey, Albert o. Jones,
w. j. McKinlay, ]. d. Robertson, J. D..
Boston, David Graham, j. c. c. Feather
stone and James T. Greene.
The committee reported at the Thurs
day night meeting, which was fully as
large as the previous one and just as en-
thuSiastic. Indeed, at this meeting the
hall was immensely packed and the en-
thusiasm of the people running very
high, the hearts of all present being in
the work before them.
The resolutions were adopted amid
much enthusiasm. They read as follow: {:
Whereas, the American steamer Vir-
ginius, sailing under the flag Of the Uni
ted States, with regular clearance from
the American Consul at Kingston, ia
maica, was recently seized in mid ocean,
upon the common highway of nations,
by the commander of Spanish vessel
of war, who, after hauling down her flag,
carried her into the Spanish port of Sam
tiago de Cuba. where her officers and
crew, embracing many American citi-
zens, were, without lawful trial, shot to
death with musketry by Spanish ma
rines acting under the orders of officers
of the army of Spain; and whereas such
seizure was violative of the public law of
nations and dishonoring to the American
flag; therefore belt
Resolued, That we appeal with conf
dence to the national administration and
the Congress of the United States to se.
cure ample redress for this great and un-
paralleled wrong inflicted upon the honor
of our great Republic in the persons of
its slaughtered citizens and through the
bold aud ignominious violation of the
sanctity of It's flag
RESOLVED, That the 1utrage here named
is but the last Of iS..g seriesinflicted by
the government of Spain upon American
citizens, and that the time has come for
this froe Republic to teach thatred-hand-
ed slavemaster of the Continent that
wherever the American flag flies there
every American citizen may stand pro-
tected by an inviolate safeguard.
Resolued, That we sympathize as free
Americans with the Cubans who are now
struggling to free themselves from the
CALLING thraldom of the Spanish yoke.
and we deem that the true American
policy which shall most speedily secure
for the island of Cuba a place among the
nations as free and independent State,
aud thus strike down the last stronghold
of chattel slaves on the American con-
tinent.
Resolped, That copy of these resolu-
tons be forwarded by the President and
Secretary Of this meeting to each Of our
Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress, and copy be also forwarded in
token of our sympathy for their cause to
the Junta OF the Cuban Republic resident
in New York.
\. B. MEYERS, Chairman.
j. EVANS BRITAIN, Secretary.