The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-10-21
AS OCTOBER


of the United States was q power wher-
ever It floated, even In the furthefnost
sea. There was no corner Of TIE earth
where Il would not protect a citizen Of
the United States. To illustrate this
capacity Of our national flag TO protect
even one who was only partiallY5aeitizen
Of the United States, I instanced the cele-
bratOd ease Of Martin Kosta, the Hunga-
rian, who was seized in the.harbor Of
Smyrna by Austrian emissaries on the
ground that he had been engaged in the
Hungarian rebellion. Martin Kosta
claimed the protection. Of the American
Consul in Smyrna on the ground that he
had been two years in the United States,
and had declared his intention to become
acitizen Of the United States. The Aus
trian Consul, backed by the authorities
Of Smyrna, refused to surrender Kosta to
the American Consul. Word was at once
sen. to Commodore Ingraham, Of the flag.
ship Mississippi, OF our Mediterranean
squadron, who at once sailed up into the
harbor OF Smyrna aud opening the port
holes Of his man.of.war sent word to the
authorities Of Smyrna that unless Martin
Kosta was delivered sale and sound on
board his ship in SO many hours they
might expect to hear from him in a way
ths. would be more emphatic than pleas.
ant. The result vas, that Martin. Kosta
was speedily delivered on board the decks
OF the Mississippi, and the fame and
power of the American flag was known
not only to every Austrian bu. to every
inhabitant OF the civilized world.
I went on to remark that there was a
moral grandeur about iuch sovereignty
as this. The whole world conld see that
it WAS genuine and not petty. There was
no miserable Palmetto Gag, with It's rattle
snake attachment, about such sovereignty
as this. 1t was the power Of the "Many-
n.oae'-the power OF a gres. cousolidat.
ed people, andnot OF league Of .'discOr-
dant, discovered and belligerent''
States. And what made the sight
still more morally grand was the
fact lha. the power OF a great people was
exerted to save from reclamation and
death poor hali.citizenized creature, who
had only an incohate claim on US. And
shall we be thus true to an humble for
eisn born citizen in q distant land, and
not exert the power Of tho same great
government to protect on American soil
those humble citizens OF the South whom
we have invested with the elective fran
chise, and yet who are to-day as power
less to exercise it as they were to call
their souls their own in the days
Of slavery. The rebel power of
the traditionslly rebelIous State OF
South Carolina, with arfebel General at
It's head, had undertaken to recover as.
ceudancy in that State by the terror Of
arms-the same terrorism that had cut
down the republican vote OF a whole coun.
ty in the State Of Mississippi from oyercc,.
900 tot. President Grant had Issued his
proclamation commanding these disturb.
ers Of political meetings=these rife club.
ers who, like so many professionals, go
around attending political meetings,
demanding half time for their
abusive speakers, to disperse, iust
as Abraham Lincoln had Issued his
proclamation to the same rebellious ele-
ment in 1881 land he bad followed up his
proclamation with the Sovereignty" Of
the government in the shape Of troops
who were sent into that state not to be
seen around the polls,por to parade them
solves in public, But to be on hand at
points where, II necessary, they would be
called to the help Of those who had no
other helper.
This, gentlemen, is the substance Of my
remarks at the Court House. Because Of
your request I have written them out,
Otherwise should never have thought
of making them public, A. w. C.