The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-10-29
HIS SHIP AGAINST SEVEN.
CAPT. lNoRAHAM DEMANDED JUSTICE
FOR AN AMERICAN.

His Batteries Twice Trained on tho Arch
dukes Ship--A Story of tho Early Days
of our Navy Recalled by Capt Ingra-
hams Dean.
New York, Oct. 2.-In these DAYS
of the rehabilitation OF The United Sta. .es
navy we may recall with pride unailoycd
with regret the good old days Of yore
when all the world knew and respected
tho prowess Of American war vessels.
And the death Of Duncan Nathaniel In :
graham in Charleston. S. c., on Friday
gives proper opportunity to recall
those days. For, as was suggested in
tRH obituary notice published in the sun
OF Saturday morning, this Duncan Ma IL
an'el ln%raham was the hero Of one of
those re markab!c episodes which m, dc
otner nations understand that the tai of
the American bird could not be pull.d
plucked, twisted, trod upon, or other
wise disrespectully used under the guns
OF an American war vessel.
There had been Capt Paul Jones end
Commodore Perry and old Admiral
Porter, who hGd fought English ald
t1cnch and Portuguese and the Barbhry
States, and oil manner OF craft tly no
flags legitimate or illc%itimatc, and all
OF them had come oil cGnuucrCrs.
Those were the days OF wooden Sh,us
aud sailing craft, when the clement of
romance was enhanced by the big sails
and the swarming over the sides with
cutlasscs and halbcrds ana all that sort
Of thing. ~ good part OF the onic srs
then were Of Southern lamllcs-sciLns
OF houses that unheld themselves in
something like icudal state. These
young men came Of GXcellant ancestry,
ol which they were exceedingly proud.
Oh these Duncan Nathaniel lngraham
was one of the hest examples.
Ills father had been naval officer, a
friend Of Paul Jones and one Of his com
panions in that famous fight between
tho Scraps and the Bon IlOmmc R;&h-
ard. 1t was quite natural That the son
should enter the navy. He was born
in 1902, and when 10 years old was al
ready IL midshipmitc. Promotion in
those days was as slow as now, pCrhn Us
a little slower. 50 although this yol. ~
man fought through thc war OF 1872. nc
was stlll midshilman. In ISIS Or
IhercaboutS, when the original Da%id
Porter went down to Lhu Southern w.t..
cr5 OF the United States TO attend 10 ,nc
| pirates who infested the small iSlantls
and the mysterious inlets OF the Gil
and the Caribbean Sea, young Ingrah!n
WAS aboard his vessel, and saw pirates
hanged at the yard arm, and learned &c
be viGlant, quick, reSoutc and unilinch
ln% in the best school ever naval Officer
| had.
lngraham, liscn to Il commander,
served in the Mexican war, and n .cw
years alter its close was sent to ioin he
squadron Of the Mediterranean. lie = as
in command Of the st. Louis, which, IS
sad to have been the PRIDE of the Amer
lean navy and which was certainly a
formidable ship for those days. It vas
aslcop OF war armed with two JO-nound-
ers. On June %, 1893, he sailed into
the harbOr Of Smyrna, in Asiatlc Tar-
key. lie found that he was lust in the
nick o. time to take advantage of one of
those chances for fame which come 10
every man, so it is said.
In the revolution of Hungary auainst
Austria in 1913 40, which Louis KOssuth
led, Martin KOsZta was a conspicuous
figure. When The revolution Was put
down, kossuth, KosZta and several 9th
ers fed TO Turkey and stopped in Smyr-
ma. After long negotiations the Turk
lsh Government refused to give them up.
Then kossuth and KOSzta went to the
United States. where K0szta decided to
settle. He engaged in business in New
| Y ork, and in July, 1852, declared under
| oath his intention of becoming a citizen
OF the United States. The next wear,
having business in Smyrna, KOsZta " cnt
there and remained for some time un(hs-
turbed, as indeed he might have expect
cd, since smyrna was not on Austrian
SOL. But kOsZta had so innamcd he
| Austrian Government against HIM tlat
plot was Matched to capture him. On
June Il, 1853, band OF Greek mcrc2n-
| aries IN Smyrna, hired by the Austrian
consul, oVcrpowcrcd Koazla, hustled
INN INTO boat and took him aboard an
| Austrian snip OF war, the lluZHar, WI ch
was lying IN the harbOr. 1t is said that
lhIs snip was III command OF no les ) a
| person than the ArChduke John, brother
ol the Emperor and admiral of the Aus
| trian navy.
At any rate, Martin KOSZta was lut
N IRONS and otherwise treated as a or M
nal and dangerous person. The naXt
day, when all Smyrna was talking about
this, sloop of war, the st. Louis, Com
mander lngraham. sailed into the Lar-
Dor. Capt. Ingraham heard the story
OF The kidnapping, and the tact that the
kidnapped man was an American Clti.
zen, from Koszta's friends. Capt IN
graham, who had been IN n war in which
the United States had taught Great
| Britain few lessons Of respect for
American citizens. was up in arms at
once. He went abroad the IIuzHar aud
very courtcously asked permission to see
KosZta. The Austrian commander, al-
ter some hesitation, granted the request.
| Commander Ingraham assured himself
that kosHta was entitled to the prOtcC-
ton OF the American flag. He demand.
ed his release Of the Austrian cOmman-
der, and, when it was refused, sent a
note TO tho nearest United States Off
clal, Consul rrown, at Constantinople.
| While he was awaiting an answer six
Austrian war ships sailed into the har-
Dor aid took up positions near the IIuz-