Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-07-02
Our Naval OMcers.

Ii rs sometimes salu tnat, u tholo shp"lu
be a war between America aud England, {
navy of this country would ieel the
the a.. officers, many Of whom
loss of its so2thern ~er times There
were men of merit in forn., 'rn men to
is no disposition among nor'ho' "' Of
Lessee, the reputation of southern nave
g COWS Int we believe tter reputation mas !
toon carried quite as high as 1t deserves 70
be carried, to speak m0de'9'"~,,y, The
best and NEST distinguished of our naval 4
officers have not been Of southern BIRTH
They have come from the northern o" III
die States. Pennsylvania and ,,.' :, NV" I"n
sey have produced more ." ~, V thon al
the Confederate s. .,.. u ,ns@ imam .n"m a"
oharles stewart IS Pennsylvania, and
50 was CON- Bidale; and cambridge,
NV, I " ID Somers were natives oil
WV yeiSe q, to which Stockton and Du-
PDh' sls' belong. r. V, Morris was from
p Do" .ork, of which state Truxton ana
= ." ,erson were natives. Charles Morris,
~ ,asc Chauncey and Isaac Hull We're born
In Connecticut, Perry, the elder Decatur,
, and the two w. ii. Aliens We're Rhode
-, | Islanders. Preble was from Maine, ana
Porter from Massachusetts, In the war
of the Revolution, there were good naval
officers from the north among them being
Whipple, the Hopkinses, Manley, Talbot,
i and Nicholas Biddle. South Carolina
# made great exertions to equip armed YES
sells, but her two chief officers We're Dutch
" men. John Barry was an freshman, ana
IS Paul Jones Scotchman. There are two
in of the Southern Border States, Maryland
- and Delaware, that have bean remarkable
- for the number of the naval officers they
y, have produced The Nicholsons may be
to called a naval fomily, and they belong tC
:. Maryland. Something like twenty mem
III bers of this family have served IN the ma
st w beginning with l775; and Com. Muir
E. ray, Marylander, was relative OF The
40 Nicholsons. Capt. Barney wos of Mary
land, and so were the younger Stepher
he Decatur, Capt. Elliott, and Capt. Rogers
nd Delaware has the honor of having pro
H. duced McDonough and Jacob Jones, VIII
=. were distinguished IN the last war wit
W England. Com. Dale was a Nirglnlan
by and so was Com. Warrington, and so wer
,s. the brothers Barron, Samuel and james
m the latter being on board the Chesapeah
III when she was fired upon by the Leopard
he in 1907, and on his way to the Mediterra
llv mean, to take command of the America
squadron in that sea- North Carolina ha
'eu the honor of having given birth to Cap
IN Blakely, one of the very best officers of tn
BUS American navy, and who captured II
II, Reindeer and the AgoR, he being in Il
Ito Wasp, which never returned home. Tv
ty, of our best officers, Admiral Farragut ar
all Capt. Drayton, are natives of the Conte
ho eracy, the former belonging to Tennessee
and the latter to South Carolina III
Shubricks are from the Palmetto State
oc- These facts, while the show that the Sou
Fri has produced some excellent neval officer
,tlv do not allow us to be discouraged as
the our own capablity to get good leaders
Ia maritime warfare. Whatever may be
mrn weakness of the North, it possesses /
cut mense naval cap bilties, and under W
and government it woCld soon become ii
r of class maritime power. Were our count
not to be broken up, new Union might
rs of formed OF the New England states, N
1t of YORK, New Jersey ana lennsglE
ac- which would stand next to England as
con- possessor of everything that leads
nos strength on the ocean. The Northw
she has in its lake commerce the means of
: on coming strong on the water, Those
ting land seas breed good seamen, who
5 her second to none IN bravery and enterPr
sures But we do not mean to break up.
lcket such means as we have at our coThlnan
nesa would be shameful to think Of the Umt
9TH destruction as being in the list of possiJ
ID in ties, unlees there should be an Euror
uling alliance formed to help the rebels
bt of then as against such an alliance we mi
,hots. hope for success, if we would but to-
ntors our miserable party politics, and act
,ners men and patrots.-TaDe5er.