previous next


Meeting to sustain Major Anderson in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, Jan, 6.
--An immense meeting was held here last night, in National Hall, to sustain Major Anderson. Five thousand persons were present. D. Lewis presided, assisted by Commodore Stewart, Major General Robert Patterson, and others.

Resolutions were adopted heartily approving of the conduct of Major Anderson; calling on the President to provide him with all the force be requires for the defence of his position: declaring that all persons who wage war against the United States, and all who aid, counsel and sanction them, public enemies, and declaring that the American flag shall be protected to the last extremity.

Speeches were made by J. Murry Rush, Democrat; Charles Gibbons, Republican, and Mark Munday, Union, The enthusiasm was intense.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Sort places alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a place to search for it in this document.
United States (United States) (1)
hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
J. R. Anderson (3)
Stewart (1)
J. Murry Rush (1)
Robert Patterson (1)
Munday (1)
D. Lewis (1)
Charles Gibbons (1)
hide Dates (automatically extracted)
Sort dates alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a date to search for it in this document.
June, 1 AD (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: