The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-12-04
FREEDOM S BATTLE.
a Telling Speech by a Constant Friend Of
Struggling Cuba.

cooper On1On last nlSnI. Lie lheet'
ing was under the auspices Of the Jose
Marti club, composed of Cubans.
Mr. Henry Lincoln Winter intro
duced the Hon. Charles A. Dana, who
was a personal friend of Marti, as
chairman Of the meeting.He eulogized
Mr.. Dana as the undying friend Of
Cuban liberty.
Mr.. Dana was received with veri-
table whirlwind OF applause, the en-
tire audience rising and cheering
again and again.
When quiet had been restored, Mr..
Dana spoke as follows, his address be-
ing frequently interrupted with ap-
plause:
my friends, Cubans, Americans:
The warmth of your reception over
whelms me- / feel that l have done
nothing to earn such enthusiasm and
such sympathy. I know that it is not
a personal feeling. That every flash
of each eye that I see before me ex-
presses the spirit Of liberty and the
hope of independence for the fairest
isle of the earth. And all enthusiasm.
delightful as it is, and the soul in
which it is founded upon the great
principle, liberty for all, order and the
opportunity for every man on Gods
footstool to work out The end to which
nature and providence have directed
him.
Ny friends,it was one of the pieces
of the very good fortune that have
marked career not short, that I knew
Jose Marti. I knew him intimately.
I worked with him, side by side, and
gathered inspiration from the ideas
that flashed from his unquenchable
soul. He was man of conviction, he
was man whose sympathies went
over the whole range of humanity and
sought for all the full opportunities of
life. He died worthy. He died in the
cause dearest to his heart and we who
came here tonight to recall his lovely
character, to admire his great qualities
and to feel that a man was consecrated
wherever he went, may well be con-
tent to gaze upon his grave and to feel
that he did not perish in vain. No
man perishes who follows ideas such
as he followed.
For freedoms battle once begun,
Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son,
Though batfled oft, is ever won. ,"
There was great cheering at this
point and Mr.. Dana had to pause few
| moments till the applause ceased.
And that grave of Marti," he re-
sumed, though it seems to mark the
failure and disappointment of his
greatest aspirations, is in itself mon
ument on the roadside which Cuba
marches to her great destiny of uni
versal happiness, progress, light and
freedom. For my part can say that
wherever liberty is ssought for, there Is
my country, and wherever hand is
raised or blow struck to secure the
freedom Of people, there is my heart
and all that l can give shall be rem
dered as long as I live.
THE freedom of Cuba is cause
that interests all mankind and it is
cause that specially interests all Amer
leans. 1t is on the American CONT
nent, the last foothold of medieval
despotism. 1t is the last dungeon in
which the sort is perpetuated to i'm
prison the human mind and repress
the energy Of man.
Il cannot share that animosity
against Spain which so many OF my
friends feel and which ] know they
feel justly, because that Spain did not
make herself; she inherited the dun
geons and the institutions; she has
inherited the despotic practices and
what is more, she has inherited pov-
erty.
Where does she 60 for the treasure
that is necessary to maintain her agi
tated system. She cannot draw it from
the pockets Of Spanish peasants; she
must draw it from the rich fields and
the divine sky of Cuba. But that ex-
cuse can not justify the oppression,
the tyranny and the wholesale plum
der of that great and beautiful island
from which Spain is to supply her
own interests.
80 Cuba must be free" The en-
thusiasm reached fever heat and the
audience seemed to have lost control
of themselves under the spell of Mr..
Dana's oratory. Hats were flung in
the air and the women waved their
handerchiefs in their enthusiasm"
so Cuba must be Free" continued
Mr.. Dana, and Spain must be reduced
to a system of forced economy. My
friends, will not detain you longer.
There are some letters to be read and
after you will hear speeches from men
whose hearts are fred with the inspi-
ration Of freedom, and who will use
words which will correspond to the
spirit of freedom that pervades all
hearts here tonight"
At the conclusion of Mr.. Dana's
speech letters ofregret were read from
Gen. Russell a. Alger of Michigan,
Albert w. Mcintyre, governor of
Colorado, Governor Culberson of
Texas. Congressman Amos j. Cum
mings, Gen. Martin T. McMahan, Gen.
Daniel Butterfeld, Hon. Patrick Egan,
Governor Allen Of North Dakota, Sen
ator VIM. E. Chandler of New Hamp-
shire, Governor Upham Of Wisconsin,
Andrew Carnegie and Augustus w.
Peters.
Congressman VIM. ..Sulzer was the
next speaker, and he received an en-
thusiastic greeting. He said in part:
In the present crisis in Cuba my
sympathies are all with the heroic and
patriotic Cubans and I sincerely hope
and believe they will succeed. Cuba
must and will be free, and independ-
ent and in my judgment the end is
near, the result inevitable and the
Cuban republic will soon take its
stand among the nations of the world.
In this revolution, the sympathy of
every American and every believer in
freedom and in liberty should go out
to Cuba and the Cubans."
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