Meeting to sustain Major Anderson in Philadelphia.
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.