New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-17
ADMIRAL d. G.. FARRAGET.
An Grafton by J. K. G. Pitkin, Esq. of
New Orleans.

An OrAI1On Dy j, H. u TItAln, Esq.
New Orleans.
Following this we give our readers a coz
densed report Of the very excellent CRATIC
delivered at Lyceum Hall last Tuesday eve
ming, under the auspices of the Grand Arm
of the Republic. for the benefit of the Cha
mette monument fund. 1t will be seen tina
the speaker looks forward to a period whe
New Orleans shall contain a statue of GU
times this suggestion may become an &C
complished fact. Having been introduce,
TO his audience by Colonel William Wright
chairman of the lecture committee, Mr.. Pit
kin spoke as follows:
War is grim anvil. upon which we la.
a solemn purpose, drawn forth CLOWN.
from the national heart, and shape it to
javelin. We hurl the javelin forward, ant
TO- it stands erect over the impaled errO
as staff, whence thereafter floats stand
ard, unchallenged, perhaps, in it's mora
sovereignty. To advance the staff we wer,
constrained to propel it as a .javelin-Onct
implanted it remains simply flagstaff. L
is really the method of progress ever sine,
the world began, and the Romans told thu
moral Gaintily in the fable of Camillus
Men or nations thus plant their mile posts
forward and then march up TO them. They
must needs be aggressive to daunt dOubtert
and revilers, or they must needs rescue
their hope from sitting atmospheres by
casting it into future.
We can not all expect to project grea,
aims, as lad does his ball-just far enough
to have them rebound promptly to oul
hands. We must. at times, dart them over
within new horizons and it is the utter i'm
pulse that gets them there. We must even
be content to forecast, that in our pursuit
along the weary path thither, we may relax
IN a grave, over which better men shall
leap. in quest Of the same great end
Whatever, then, the staff may be; what.
ever cheer We may hope to unfurl upon it;
a rhyme. a tenet or a law, let it be resO-
luteiy hurled and that is enough for US.
Though we fail Of tie goal we aspire for, a
sterling truth never died for lack of kindly
care; the posterity it nurtures claims it as
hereditary right.
have said that war is an anvil. Old
Pythagoras caught hints of music from a
smithy and from the greater anvil, Oh
which we smote our rudy purpose as a
people into deadly implement of defense,
came forth rare metre, stern and meas
ured, that timed the tramp of armies, the
fOot-beat Of sentries, and the thrOb of ten
thousands of widowed hearts. 1t was a
wall and thud, grief and a might, a
tender heart and clercbed fist, shrill
tenor and an angry bass, a woe beaten into
the very iron OF the guns as dangerous in
gredient, This song was ours-Ours, all of
us-a song which must hencefOrth Jingle in
every heart, solemn pride for the past, an
exultant courage for the future.
The better to quicken these two grand
emotions is, it seems to me, the true mis-
sion Of great cOuutryman's statue. His
history is a constituent part of national his
tory, nay, one intrinsic reason for it. In
separable from it. it is the property OF the
whole country. He can not take i: with
him into his grave, if he will. His image
stands out upon the frontier of his epoch, a
symbol of all our sacrifices and triumphs,
and faces the future with dumb eloquence
of forecast that can not but chasten and
inspire the good citizen. The resurrection
OF his form through quarry in the very
earth. down in which his bones moulder.
cheers Us to dare justly for ripening days.
His loyal power never declines, death does
not interrupt it. his service to the nation is
continuous with her existence, he mounts
the pedestal to assert the same high faith,
to wage the same moral warfare, to descry
far of the looming of his old prophecies, to
pronounce the same admonitiOns. The lip
is silent and the sword sheathed, but the
purpose they espoused is pent in the statue
that finds it speech in the testimony of
coming events.
AS you have heard your voice rever-
berate from mountain walls, 80 the great
man. who shouted his warning against
wrongs he may even have failed to sub.
vert, hears, erect upon his monument, loud
echoes Of himself in the later results of
MS lab0rs.
If ever man lived, who remembered
that his services and life were wholly his
,ountrys s. who not only foresaw results.
but with magnificent impatience clenched
them. and whose statue would embOdy
much of what the American people best
nay boast, that man is Citizen Farragut.
Ii marble entomb the man Farragut.
IAN not in marble survive as we'll the
leighbor Farragut. Let Us confirm his
among US in his craven image.
George Anthony Farragut, the father of
he Admiral, was born on the island of Mi
lorca. and OF Spanish parents, came to this
1attle of Cowpens as to be made major.
wounded in North Carolina,
le was borne to the house of Jonathan
Shine, whose daughter-the Admirals
thus introduced
1t might be interesting to d well upon this
period of his retirement, and surmise the
GENTLE influences that awakened a new and
strange zeal in his breast. The tender
,tfices of the honsek old-tne grateful re-
,ar0 therefor attaching him to those within
THE subtle hunger for an especial pres
misery estimate of a word,
ook. a touch-the final awakening to his
these are old chapters in life.
four Roman Antony, your Scandinavian
Frey, warriors though they were, surren-
Tered to the mysterious power and how
ouch better might the stricken soldier
when he had entered wo,nan's choicest and |
most hazardous camp, the sick ROOM where |
beautiful compassio0 thrills in her tender |
Suffice it to say that the
Wounded soldier was not only made whole,
'ut doubly whole. He went forth with a |
ew Shine in his heart-it was the betrothed |
Liza beth Shine.
They were not married till several wears |
fter the war, when they moved to Knox |
lille. Tennessee, where, in 1877, their first !
hid. William A. G. Farragut, was born: |
hence to Stony Point, where were born all |
he other children. David Glascoe (the Ad- !
liral1, Nancy and Eliza beth, both of which |
aughters now reside at PascagOula, Mis- |
issippi. and George Anthony, who was
rowned off Biloxi Mississippi in 1875.
The speaker traced the course of the |
imily TO New Orleans. the father and
enior son, when but ten years of age, ante
eding the rest about a year; the entering
William and Glascoe here into the navy
$ middies by Captain David Porter: the |
eviction of Porter to little Glascoe and
,licitous care for his tuition; the latter's
experience on the Essex in the Pacific, her
apture, his wound and parole: the notable
araIlel between POrter's and GlascOe's
yes; the latter marriage in 1888 to Susan
I. Marchant, and in ISil as a>widower to
irginia D. Loyal, still living, and his
numerous assignments to lneonspicuous