The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-06-07
HIGH JINKS ON THE ROLLING
DEEP

Such of our readers as perused the extracts
published by us yesterday from the letter of
the Gubernatorial Geary to Vice-Admiral
Porter must have been impressed with the
patent fact that his Excellency is a man of
high-sounding sentiments and muddled meta
phors But the hero of fifty-odd battles and
Governor of three or more States contrives
to wade through sea of words without once
exalting himself by reason of the stormy
scenes which have so signally marked his own
dazzling career. When we bear in mind the
fact that nothing would be more natural than
some reference to this career by one so inge-
nuous as our Governor, we can appreciate
fully the rare degree of modesty which caused
him to abstain. That man with a thousand
bullet-holes in his legs should dilate upon
'that country which every true American
proudly calls his own" show up the 'cun-
ningly devised professions" of it's in
sidious foes, PROFOUND its mission and
fortell its destiny, eulogize the minds and
hearts that laid treason in the dust, and
finally take it upon himself to tender to
man with an illustrious sire and a noble
heritage the thanks of the nation, without
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calves which testified to his own countless
deeds of valor upon the CORY plain of battle,
is, indeed, almost incomprehensible, almost
incredible. But Geary epistle to the an
cient mariner with the illustrious sire and
noble heritage has proved that such modesty
is both possible and actual.
In truth, the reckless fashion in which the
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peace with deeds of high emprise appears to
have impressed his Excellency with the neces-
sity for following his example; and, although
his success in so doing has been
complete, We can we'll imagine
that the unreasonable breezes of this unsea-
sonable month are attuned to a melancholy
air as they romp and riot through the multi
tudinous orifces of those perforated calves,
while the doughty and self-denying hero COM
placently contemplates his task. Said the
ancient mariner with an ''illustrious sire" and
'noble heritage, in addressing and compli-
menting the Hon. Mr.. Eegley: y:-"Our people
only want the chance to be even with Eng
land once more, and will be willing to lose a
little to catch up" The unreasonable breezes
echo the patriotic sentiment, as they whistle
through the cavities between the Gubernato-
rial tibia and iibula, and rattle around the
shattered Gubernatorial femur; his Excellency
gives vince, and resolves to be even with the
mariner, even though he should lose great
deal in catching up. If a Vice-Admiral
who, Gin the trial of battles waged"
for the country's safety, has contrived
to render still more illustrious the name and
heritage bequeathed to him by his sire, can
wave aside the smoke of the conflict and
deaden the roar Of great sea guns by thrust
ing his thumbs into his ears, and then dis
course upon the decline of commerce as
calmly as the greatest landlubber in the halls
of Congress, why should not Geary do the
same? If Porter can cram ''a noble heritage
of naval renown" into his tarpaulin. and talk
about being even with England after the high
old Roman fashion of turning the weapons of
ones adversary upon himself, why should not
the hero of some fifty land-fghts emulate his
forbearing example, even if his legs have
been riddled until nothing is left of them but
shreds of muscle and scraps of bone?
But it is not until we come to the very tail
end of his ExcellencY's epistle that We dis
cern the moving motive which led to its
Preparation. Il hope, says Geary to Por-