The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-10-28
HIS SHIP AGAINST SEVEN.
CAPT. lNGRAHAM DEMANDED JUSTICE
FOR AN AMERICAN.

FOR AN AMERICAN.
HIS Batteries Twice Trained on the Arch
duke's ShIp-A Story of the Early Days
of our Navy Recalled by Capt Ingra'
hams Death.
New YORK, Oct. 2.-In these days
OF The rehabilitation of the United States
navy we may recall with pride uuailoyed
with regret the good old days OF gore
when al the world knew and respected
the prowess OF American war vessels.
And the death of Duncan Nathaniel In
graham in Charleston. S. c., on Friday
gives a proper opportunity to recall
those days. For, as was suggested IN
the obituary notice published in the Sun
OF Saturday morning, this Duncan Nath-.
aniel Ingraham was the hero OF one 81
those remarkable episodes which made
other nations understand that the tail OF
the American bird could not be pulled,
plucked, twisted, trod upon, or other
wise disrespectfullY used under the guns
Of an American war vessel.
There had been Capt Paul Jones and
Commodore Perry and old Admiral
Porter. who had fought English and
French and Portuguese and the Bsrbary
StateS, and all manner of craft tlYlog
flags legitimate or illegitimate, and all
of them had come of conquerocs.
Those were the days of wooden ships
and sailing craft, when the element OF
romance was enhanced by the big sails
and the swarming over the sides with
cutlasses and halberds and all that sort
OF thing. A go>d part of the officers
then were of Southern famllies-sclons
of hcuaes that unheld themselves IN
something like teudal state. These
young men came Of cxcellant ancestry,
Of which they were exceedingly proud.
OF these Duncan Nathaniel 1ngraham
was one Of the best examples.
His father haG been a naval officer,
friend Of Paul Jones and one OF his COM
panions in that famous fight between
the Scraps and the Bon Homme Rich
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 midshipmite. Promotion IN
those days was as slow as now, perhaps
little slower. So although this Young
man fought through the war OF 1872, he
was still a midshipman. In 1878 or
thereabcuts, when the original David
Porter went down to the Southern wat
ers Of the United States to attend to the
pirates who infested the small islands
and the mysterious inlets OF the Guli
and the Caribbean Sea, young 1ngraham
was aboard his vessel, and saw pirates
hanged at the yard arm, and learned 10
be vigilant, quick, resolute aud unfllnch-
ing in the best school ever naval officer
had.
Ingraham, risen to a commander,
served in the Mexican war, and lew
wears after it's close was sent to join the
squadron of the Mediterranean. He vas
in command Of the St. Louis, which IS
said to have been the pride of the Amer
lean navy and which was certainly a
formidable ship for those days. It T'as
a slcop Of war armed with two 5O-pound-
ers. On June %, 1858, he sailed INTO
the harbor Of Smyrna, in Aslatic Iur-
key. He found that he was just III 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 against
Austria in lS4S 40, which Louis kossuth
led, Martin Koszta was a conspicuous
figure. When the revolution Vas put
down, Kossuth, koszta and several 9th"
ers fed to Turkey and stopped III Snyr-
ma. After long negotiations the Turk
ish Government refused TO give them up,
Then Kossuth and koszta went to the
United States. where koszta decided to
settle. He engaged in business IN New
York, and in July, 1852, declared under
oath his intention Of becoming citizen
OF the United States. The next year,
having business in Smyrna, koszta went
there and remained for soma time undls-
turbed, as indeed he might have expect
ed, since Smyrna was not on Austrian
soil. But koszta had SO intlamed the
Austrian Government against HIM that
plot was hatched 10 capture him. On
June 2l, 1853, band OF Greek mercen-
aries IN Smyrna, hired by the Austrian
consul, o7erpowered Koszta, hustled
him into a boat aud took him aboard an
Austrian ship Of war, the Huzzar, which
was lying IN the harbor. Il is said that
this ship was in command OF no less a
person than the Archduke Johr, brother
Of the Emperor and admiral OF the Aus
trian navy.
At any rate, Martin koszta was put
N irons and otherwise treated as crlul-
nal and dangerous person. The next
day, when all Smyrna was talking about
this. slocp of war, the st. Louis, Com
mander lngraham. sailed into the har-
Dor. Capt. Ingraham heard the story
of the kidnapping, and the tact that the
kidnapped man was an American cltl'
zen, from koszta's friends. Capt ln-
graham, who had been IN 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 Huzzar and
very courteously asked permission to see
koszta. The Austrian commander, al
ter some hesitation, granted the request.
Commander Ingraham assured himself
that keszta was entitled to the protec-
ton of the American flag. He demand
ed his release Of the Austrian comman-
der, and, when it was refused, sent
note TO the nearest United States Off
cial, Consul Drown, at Constantinople.
While he was awaiting an answer SIX
Austrian war ships sailed into the har-
Dor aid took up positions near the Iluz-
Ear. On June 90, before any answer
had come from Consul Brown: tie st.
Louis noticed unusual signs of activity
on board the Huzzar, and pretty soon
she began to get under way.
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