Litchfield enquirer., 1868-01-30
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n. lAs LII them insulted and attacked one of the off, cers. and had to be logged. ; Feote resolv- ed to try whether something. could not be done to prevent the eecarrence' of such dis orders. Considering what ssflors general 1y are, 1t wcasa n5t haze, been thought very hopeful undertaking to attempt by mere persuasion, to induce the entire ships company of first cluss frlgate to give up their grog and become total abstinence men. But nothing less than this did Foote sacting for <1od,' attempt and perform. Backed ly the influence of his old friend Commodore Smith, the flag officer of the suuadron. he formed 2 Temperance Socie- ty, beginning with the officers; and soon every man aboard the ship, from quarter deck to forecastle, had come into the new movement of voluntary reform:-al with one solitary exception. One resolute topper whose nose bloomed i,lssthe midst of his companions like the last Rose of Summer, ''all whose lovely companions had faded and gone, "herolcally resisted all the pow CT of persuasion. argument and ridicple. and with vast moral courage came forward daily at the customary hour to receive in form that sacred privilege of grog, of which not even the Commodore might venture to deprive him, except for cause. And they gave to him with all the solemuities. They piped him on deck to grog. They beat the drum for him; and when they had got him completely mustered and formed into line, and had called the roll, and were satisfied that he was all there, they delivered to him his pannikin of the precious liquid, and he retired with proud and pot-valiant con tempt of popular ridicule, such as the ser eph Abdiel might have envied, when from 1e& 41,o fo,E
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 Long way through hostile scornwhich he sustained Superior
 I doubt if such voyage Was ever made by any man of war before or since The first lieutenant of the ship was her volur- teer chaplain. Every Sunday, on the berth-deck, about two hundred willing hearers were wont to gather to listen to a lecture from the first lieutenant; and after the lecture was commonly held, in 8 more retired part of the ship meeting for pray CT. It was a Christian ship. A blessing seemed to rest upon her. Aglory surroun- ded her name, that grew brighter to the end. And when, at last, in that fierce fight with the Merrimac, gored and man gled by the beak of the mail-clad monster the old ship went down sallantly to her heroic grave, her flag still flying, her crew cheering as they sank, and her guns explo- ding at the waters edge, there was many a heart that remembered the prayers that had gone up from the Cumberland berth deck twenty years before, and thought of her as one thinks of 8 good man who has ended d life of holiness by a death of glo- ry.
 At last, after twenty-seven years of ser- vice, so slow was promotion in those days of peace, he was advanced, still with the rank of lieutenant, to his first command, the brig Perry, of the African squadron. It is enough to say couveyntns this cru;e7 list, that he induced all his crew to com- mute their grog ration, and sailed with the spirit-room filled with water casks; and that partly in consequence of this, he was able, after two years on the most pestilen- tial coast in the world, to report not one of his crew dead or disabled; 2d that coming to the coast at time when the slave trade was at it's height he showed such extraordi- nary diligence in cruising and capturing, on part of the coast not frequented by American men-ofwar, that it was declared by the British Commissioner, that his sole exertions had anihilated the slave trade on that coast. Returning from this exhaust ing service with a shattered constitution, almost blind with optlalmia, racked with periodical headaches, which never after wards forsook him. and, Suspect with the incurable disease of which he died already incubating in his system, he devoted his remnant of strength to active and public labors in behalf of missions and temper ance, and of the young republic of Liberia Especially did he exert himself and not in vain, to withstand the movement then on foot to withdraw the American Squadron from the coast of Africa, and permit the almost extinct slave trade to renew it's ray ages. His speech before the Colonization Society on that subject, reprinted in pam phlets, and circulated at Washington and throughout the country, may be regarded as having saved the country, at the time, from the gravest disgrace ever attempted on her by the slave power His most con- siderable literary effort, volume entitled Africa and the American Flag commem- crates the services of our squadron Tn the suppression of slave-trading, and i'll the encouragement of Christian missions and colonization.
 EOCte mado but one more voyage on the ocean. In 1856, lie sailed from the Cheas- apeke Bay for the East Indies, in command of a magnificent sIoop of war, the Ports mouth. The incidents of that cruise alone form the most splendid materials for moSe than one lecture The visit to the Court of Siam, with it's strange sights, and sound and, customs, it's quality of kings, and its affiuence of wealth and splendor, realizing all our dreams how,
 ''The gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbarc pearl and Sold;'
 The sojourn among the homelike scenes of Japan, the Britain of the Eastern seas:- and the experience of Chinese diplomacy and warfare; all of these I need not speak of, for they have already been described to many of you by my brother, who was Foote's com panion and secretary, on that cruise Let it suffice, for now, to recall to the re, collection of some of you, how decisively he cut short the deceitful delays of Chi nese diplomacy-as Lord Palmerston said of him in the British Parliament-'with 6 word and blow, only the blow came first and the word afterward." bombarding and destroying the barrier forts Ill the Canton river.
 The outbreak of the rebellion found him al the post of executive officer of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. I remember we'll visit which made to him at the yard Q few months be, fore hostihties commenced. He seemed broken hearted at the ruin of his country for in answer to the hopeful incredulity