The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-27
DANA FIRES CUBAN HEARTS.
THE EDITOR GROWS ELOQUENT AT
A PATRIOTIC RALLY.

The Audience Loses Control of Itself
Under the spell of MIR. Dana's Ora
tory and Breaks Into Cheers Again
and Again-The Speaker Pays IA
Tribute TO His Dead Friend Mnrti.
Several Letters of Regret Read.
New York. Nov. 26.-The cause OF Cuba's
patriots was the topic at "A big mass
meeting held in the han Of Cooper Union
tonight. The meeting was under the
auspices of the Jose Marti Club, cOmpos-
ed of Cubans.
Dr. Henry Lincoln Winter introduced
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 a Veritable
whirlwind Of applause the entire audi
ence rising and cheering again and again
When quiet had been restored Mr..
Dana spoke as follows. his address being
frequently interrupted with applause;
My friends Cubans Americans: The
warmth of your reception OVerwhelms
me. ! feel that / have done nothing to
earn such enthusiasm and such sympathy.
! know that it is not a personal feeling.
That very flash Of each eve that | sea
before me expresses the spirit OF liberty
and hope of independence for the faireSt
isle of the earth, and all enthusiasm. de-
lightful as il is and the soul in which 1t
is kindled, is of no great value unless II
is founded on the great principle of hb-
erty for all, order and the opportunity Tor
every man ON Gods footstool to work
out the end to which nature and Hrovi-
dence have directed him.
MY friends 10y one OF the pieces OF
good fortune which has marked a career
not short, / knew Jose Marti. ! knew
him intimately. worked with him. side
by side and gathered inspiration from
the ideas that flashed from his unquench-
able soul. He was "a man of genius, he
was man of conviction, he was man
whose sympathies went over the whole
range Of humanity and sought for all the
fun opportunities of life. He died worth
lily. He died in the cause dearest TO his
heart, and we who come here tonight to
recall his lovely character TO admire his
great qualities, and to feel that man was
.cOnsecrated wherever he went, may Well
be content 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 baftied oft. is ever won.
There was great cheering at this point
and Mr.. Dana had TO pause lew moments
till the applause ceased.
"And that grave of Marti," he resumed,
though II seems 70 mark the fallufe ana
disappointment of his greatest aspra-
| tions Is i'm itself a monument on the road
side along which Cuba marches TO her
! great destiny of universal happiness,
progress, light and freedom, freedom itknr,, Eor my y
/ sought for, there Is my country and,
wherever a hand is raised or blow
/ struck to secure the freedom of a people,
/ there is my heart and all the aid that
can give shall be rendered as long as
live.
interests all mankind. and II is a cause
/ that specially interests all Americans. II
is on the American continent the last
foothold Of medieval despotism. IL is the
last dungeon in which the effort is perpet-
/ uated to imprison the human mind ana
| 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, be-
| cause that Spain did not make herself
| she inherited the dungeons and the IN
| stitutions; she has inherited the despotic
| practices, and what is more, she has in
| herited poverty.
Where does she go for the treasure
| that Is necessary to maintain her anti
| duated system. She cannot draw 1t from
| the pockets of the Spanish peasantryi
she must draw it from the rich fields and
| the divine sky of cuba. But that excuse
| cannot justify Spain and cannot justify
| the oppression, the tyranny ana the
| wholesale plunder Of that great and beau
tiful island by which Spain IS 10 supply
her own interest
so Cuba must be freeH'
The audience seemed TO have lost con-
$50 cuba must be free" continued Mr.
| Dana "and Spain must be reduced to q
! 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 fired with the inspiration of freedom
and who will use words which will re-
spond to the spirit of freedom that per-
vades all hearts here tonight"
At the conclusion of Mr.. Dana's speech
lgf faF of from
sell A. AlEer of Michigan, Albert w. Nc
Intyre, governor Of Colorado; Gov. Cul
j. Cummings, Gen. Martin T. Mcmahon
Gen. Dan q. Butterfield, Hon. Patrick
Egan, Gov Allen of North Dakota, Sena
tor William T.. Chandler of New Hamp
shire. Gov. ITpham Of Wisconsin. Andrew
Carnegie and Augustus w. Peters.
Congressman William Sulzer was th'
I next speaker and he received an enthusi
astic greeting. He said, in part: In th'
present crisis in Cuba my sympathies ar'
all with the heroic and patriotic Cubans
/ and ! sincerely hope and believe they vii
succeed. Cuba must and Will be free anC
independent, and, I'm my judgment, thu
end is near, the result inevitable; th'
Cuban republic will soon take its stanf
among the nations of the world. In thii
/ revolution the sympathies Of every Amer
lean and every believer in freedom and II
liberty should go out to Cuba and tn
| Cubans."
Havana. Nov. 26.-The steamer Alfons,
XIII arrived here from Spain to-day
bringing reinforcements Of troops for th'
cDanish army in Cuba. The troops wert
received by the people with great enthu
siasm. and the houses In the city wer'
/ decorated in honor OF their arrival.
Madrid. Nov pa dispatch from
Santa Clara, Cuba, to the impartial say
the rebel leader, Maxine Gomez, Is at
tacking the fort at Rio Grande, and tha
I Spanish troops are being hurried forward
/ from Ciego de Avila TO relieve the smal
/ garrison holding the fort.
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