New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-17

The first official mention OF arragut Oc
ours in Porter's report of the British cap
ture of the Essex in Valparaiso bay; IN
| 1914, namely: "Midshipmen Isaacs, Far
raout and Ogden exerted themselves il the
| performance of their respective duties. but
thew are too young for promotion
The career of Farragut down to the 10
| ginning of the rebellion was then traced IL
! brief
! In introducing a saccinct rehearsal OF
| Farragut's approach to the city, the speak
| er related that "when at Tunis. and a MO
! dy. he was presented with Turklsr
| ataghan, on whose scabbard was repre-
sented frigate passing between the hre o.
TWO forts. An unsupported omen IL II
| thus great deeds walt in great man
hands, though he be unmindtul OF 1t and
laugh as we may at palmistry.'
| Here followed an extended analysis o.
Farragut's character, with askant glimpses
at his old patron. Porter, by which it was
largely leavened. After dilating upon the
| difference between the warrior like farra
gHt, who unseltishly made his country him
self and the warrior like Bonaparte. whose
| unholy ambition made himself his country
| the speaker remarked, 'St. Helena is the
moral quarry of all future Pompey's pillars
at whose base mad Caesars must fall" VI
| Farraguts promptitude in the discharge OF
| with percussion cap
OF his gentleness, she was humane
| man armed cap-a pie-patrictism his en-
| ergy and religion his temperance We
| can present bat one point in this connec-
! ton: 1T becomes us as a people, proud OF
| our civilization, to remember that Farra
| gut daily knelt in devOut humility and be
| sought Gods blessing and guidance. For
| titled by faith in his country and exalted
hv faith in his MoIror h;a all
| grand, passionate and unselfsh.
| The Cause OF the rebellion derives much
| of us imputed sanctity in the minds OF
many to-day from the known religious
character of men like Generals Lee and
Thomas j. Jackson. Such characters stand
20 such minds as warrant for the use to
which they lent their swords and as d
pledge for the worth of their cause. Ever
since the days of the ironsides we like
camps better that can be prayer meetings
and it is the religiously honest man in a
cause. good or bad. who is its most formid
able champion to extinguish OF abate IN
history.
And again. Farragut was great in that
goodness OF which his valOr was but an I'M
pulse. He was a large equity in himself.
He sailed to conserve. not avenge.
After detailing his ovation abroad after
the war, his gradual decline and retreat to
AoltsnUuen, NO" hampshire ~ Huu HcuI-
cine in the sea breezes there. the orator ad
verified to the Admral's closing hours:
There, in the sultry summer days, with de-
vOut lips whispering religious cheer at his
ear, with the old sea murmurous with q
song of his glory and breathing her bene
dictiOn upon bin; with a loving nation at
hush for tidings Of his restoration; on the
Sabbath noon OF August Ia, 1870, the hand
that had seized treason so tercely by the
L, H. II.
years King, Gar. Sultan and Pope had
been proud to prese, the hand, prayerfully
imprisoned now in wifelv clasp, dropped
an idle. impotent thing. The old Admiral
had drifted out seward. "Yet,' saith rude
ancient chronicler, ''sOme men yet say in
many parts of England, that King Arthur
is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord
Jesu in another place; and men say that
he will come again" will not say it shall
world he changed his lite" Our chronicle
can but add of Farragut, that he has come
again and is ever with us.
Returning to his initial suggestion of
statue of Farragut in this city, Mr.. Pitkin
said: ''The generous traits that the old
mariner disclosed, are alone called in exer-
else in this project of memorial. As the
benefit he achieved Injured to all-friend
and fOe-sO, it seems to me, all might join
Ill tEIDuto W d CDluIuOu Deuo1dCuOr. we
are all brethren to-day in the body polite,
and girt about with defenses he served to
re-establish: We are secure and prosperous,
and sanguine, because he made himself,
with others, reason why we should be so.
A monument, surmOunted by Lee and some
OF his fellow chiettains, has lately been
reared in our midst, and it is not for us to
take moral exception to it. The two enter
Drises can not conflict. The memories of
Farragut and Lee are not rivals. Lee in
marble would simply testify for Farragut
in marble. Lee, drawing forth his sword
in 81, not with the readiness and grasp of
his previous years, but with reluctan &c and
pain. and standing between the Union he
cherished and State, frankly confessed to
his sister, ne saw no reason for the strife.
His image will stand forth a witness with
Farraguts that there was no reason. Lots
wife became her own penal monument for
looking backward; it would seem greater
kindness not to erect in etiigy the prOudest,
saddest foe of Union he had loved and
served so long and we'll. dare almost be-
lieve that 1t was this old love that smote
him the more in that the Republ dealt SO
graciously with his error. There was a sor-
row in him that perhaps lamented the sur
render of his arms in So less than the sur.
render OF himself in 81. The federal armies
seemed almost to man to suspect it and
bNou spok0 MS OAm6-a5 / would speak 1t
with melancholy kindness.
A statue TO Farragut should delight the
constant citizen and could not affrOnt the
manly enemy. 1t would stand not taunt
but gracious pledge. 1t would enioin
simply what the Admiral substantially
proclaimed here in 1S62-the flag of the
Union overhead, the soil of the Union uu-
1erfOOt, and for every man between them
the liberties of the Union.
He tells us that the gun. flashes of the
forts below alone enabled him to direct bis
shots through the fog. With her torch of
rebellion the South became not only the
recruiting sergeant but the unconscious
guide OF the republic in her progress down
The age. The Union had faltered for wears
and drlveied apologies for reasans; but for
he Southern beacon she might faIter and
lrivei still. The rebel thus reinforced the
national soldier in the moral battle of the
century, and the two have won together
something better tor the future than a few
orts ana customs seats, something better
han the republic itself aspired for, to wit:
The great Christian principle that the man
whom God has made no statute can make !
ess than man.
feel the poverty of nv tribute to Far
'agut when l know history will jealousIv
loid his name as one OF its peculiar boasts.
long after your children's children and
nine shall slumber in the soil he re-
laimed, the American people will at
ectlonately revere him who has risen from
beneath The standard he defended in free
ION name to the clearer blue of that
,eaven whose service is perfect freedom.
e have the old Union shin left, thanks
'e to GOD; Is his spirit in the maintop, in |
promise OF lnvinclble futures, deyoutIv |
believe it.
horrors Of Burial in Paris.
RATS a correspondence of the New York Times. |
what shall be done with the dead, Our
anger cemeteries are full. A portion of |
hem Is pareeled out and sold to parties |
pelPetutte, but tor those who are unable