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The Daily Dispatch: January 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
Meeting of Working Men --The meeting of working men, at the City Hall on Tuesday night, was largely attended, and though many attended in the expectation of witnessing a row, no serious disturbance occurred. Mr. W. H. Swank called the meeting to order, and on his motion Mr. Benjamin Bragg was appointed Chairman. After the organization was completed, the Chair, under the instructions of the meeting, appointed a committee of fifteen to prepare business. While the committee were absent from the hall, brief speeches were made by Messrs. R. T. Sale. Marmaduke Johnson, Samuel Huffman, George D. Wotton, and Martin M. Lipscomb. The committee returned, and the following majority report was read by Mr. W. H. Swank. Whereas, the cause of the South is, in the opinion of this meeting, the cause of the Constitution and of the right; and, whereas, the period has arrived in the progress of anti-slavery fanaticism when a supine submission to sectional domination, unchecked b