Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-16

THE Brooklyn Eagle publishes a strong
statement showing that Admiral Farragut
has been treated With neglect and con-
tumely by General Grant and Admiral
Porter, aver since Grant was elected
President. A series of petty insults have
been studiously heaped upon him. He
was at once laid on the shelf in New York
to " await orders" and no orders given.
Subslterns learned that Fsrragut was in
disfsvor at court, and disregarded his or
ders; and Vice Admiral Porter has made
it a standing order that "no friend of
Farrsgut has any claim on this
Department" Those whom he had
pronounced against for coward
ice, incompetency or other cause,
came correspondingly into favor, and
were appointed chiefs of bureaus and
commanders of squadrons in the most
active service. The Admiral's flag Sc
lected by him on motion of President
Johnson was ruled out, and an inferior
bunting substituted by Grants tool, Por-
ter; and even his personal uniform was
sought to be changed in like manner.
He requested as due to his wish, his
rank, and as necessary to his health, to
be assigned to active duty on the high
seas, but his request was passed by as
unworthy of respectful notice or reply.
The prize money won by him at New Or
leans, Porter set up a claim for half, and
was consequently disgraced by the Court,
which decided, not only hat the whole
belonged TO Farragut, but also that SO far
from having any merit, Porter did nothing
in aid of the capture OF that city, but on.
/ tho contrary disobeyed the orders fhis
superior. But the result is that Porter
hiss so managed as to prevent Farrsgut
from realizing his claims to this day.
Such are some of the many petty indig-
mites heaped on him by the small-souled
chief Executive of the nation and his ma
iignant and envious tool, Porter.
The men on whose shoulders Grant
has climbed up to his high es-
tate are the very men he most de-
lights to annoy and spurn. He hates
them because they have done him a ser
vice, and his malice refuses even the hon
or of his presence at their burial. At Pitts
burg, when the mob Missed down Andrew
johnson, and when Grant refused in ST.
lenee all indication of his disapprobation,
Farragut gave mortal offense by speaking
the words of a true man and a trus soldier,
when you insult my superior, you in
snIt me- and retiring with indignation.
Grant would have his chief abused, and
is evidently a cunning plOtter. His great
honors, not having been won by great
valor, great generalship or great intellect,
rave been stolen by 3 turn OF the wheel
of fortune, in which an imbeeile was the
best instrument in the statesmen's game
Of seIf-promotion. And the best generals
and men who served with him in war,
he has labored to put under a cloud
for the crime of having eclipsed him.
These statements Of the Brooklyn pa
per, of which we have quoted but a part,
are evidently made with elaboration,
and not without foundation and reason.
Indeed, it distinctly AYERS them to be
VIGOROUSLY true in Brooklyn, and to have
long been observed with pain by the
friends Of the great naval hero. 1t is
palpably manifest that neither Grant
nor Porter are fit to make an honorable
scrub race for constable. Men liks these,
who can only rise by pulling down their
superiors and betters, are capable only
Of disgracing the high positions they I'LL,
and the people it is their duty to serve
and honor. The article of the Eagle, re-
ferred to, closes with the following para
graph. OF Admiral Farragut, it saws:
His life was embittered by the insolence
OF him whom his too great Kindness
saved from a merited death as a coward
n a peculator. The other towards and
peeulators whom he sought during mid
rebellion to weed out of the service were
purposely promoted, and instructed and
abetted TO insult him in public letter, in
the naval department, n in private life.
The great soul was preyed upon by gnats.
His ~Perquisites were withheld, his infu-
ulliied, his services were forgotten. /
his advices were despised.
All this was lone By Vice Admiral Por- |
ter really, but officially by the Secretary /
the NaYy-the same Porter who has |
msde the naval service at once the most
c~ontemptibler the most corrupt, and the |
most olgarchical in the world in less
three years. Though il was his act.
It was no less the act of the administra-
ton which Endorses il, and Of the Secre-
tsry of the Navy, who vents gratuitous
praise of him he allowed to be thus be-
Titled, harassed, and suppressed. 1t is
due to say that medical testimony is con-
current that sea service would have cured
the asthma that killed Admiral Farragut.
that reason he sought it repeatedly.
that reason il was refused. He died
1t an advanced age, but with bodily
strength enough to have lived twenty
years longer had his soul not been har-
-Owed by sights, and his body virtually
Imprisoned ON land. But, thank God, he
al last Tree from the malice, and envy,
cOwardice that found their target IN