Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-04-26

Hartford, was the hero of his fancy. He Q
had read of ships going into the fight with
their colors nailed to the mast, but to bind '
the admiral Ito it seemed q much hercer I
tone of defiance. No wonder that orators
grew eloquent and poets were freshly In
spiredl This engagement, however 1t may
be regarded by strategists, Was practically
the turning-point of the deadly STRIFE;
Hitherto very many in the country looked
| upon the war for the Union ss apredestined
| failure. Political parties were ready to go
| to the people upon this disheartening postu-
late. But from this time forth all DOUBT
| was gone; the end was visible and not LAT
of. The reelection of MIR. Lincoln IN n o.
vember, the battle of Nashville in Decem,
Der, the march to the sea, Fort Fisher, and
the surrender at Appomatox Court-House
| were as the closing scenes in the grand last |
act of the national tragedy.
| Great as was the effect upon opinion at
i home, it was even greater upon opinion
abroad. They who had belittied our sue
cesses and magnifed our defeats who nao
} / derided our commanders and extol!ed tnelr
antagonists; they who had given every
moral support to the cause of our undolng,
and had furnished such material aid as to
be a6judged guilty of tort by an lnternas
tional tribunal and mulcted in damages
they saw the tide had turned, and thence
9 forward took sides, like the gods, with tn ne
7 | victorious cause. Of Farragut hlmseli
: they spoke in language Of admiration and
: eulogy. Columbia Nelson" said one
= | who wrote in sight of Trafalgar squara,
S and who adds: THE 9th OF August, 1864,
: was brilliant day for the United States
!. Navy" Another speaks OF hum as one
d Whose feats of arms place him at tue
q head of mis- profession, and certainly con-
stilute him the first naval officer OF the
% day." The Prince de Joinville, no mean
t. auth ority, declared that the qualities shown
% on this occasion, as in so many others, oy
II III. nnd him. nm ~
a. vertibly in the first rank among the naval
" GERS of all nations" 1t has been sa d
= tina, the voice from the distance usually
at corresponds WIFI the verdict of history
al This was the last service OF the veteran
a Sea King during the war: Long expGsuae e
q command, and the intense and unremlttiD G
e. energy required were strain upon Ms
be health too severe to be endured. For thu
lis reason. the command of an lmportan
at expedition to which ne had been assignee me
of BY the Secretary of Navy, Wh'
e. regarded him as the great and successful
a hero of the war" and spoke of him as tn
IRE :. Great Admiral" was, on his own repre-
sentstion of his physical suferlngs, re
u, yoked and another substituted.
90 Neither the government nor the peopl
iso had been Indifferent to his Achievements
~, The expressions of popular enthusiast
n no sd reached the capital OF Dixie, ano,
90 we may credit one OF their historian
:, ,e en- were exceedingly distasteful La July
10 1867 he received place In the new
orc creadted rank OF rear-admirsl; In W
. e.o cember, 1854, Congress passed law crea
'n va ing the grade of vice admiral, and IN Jul,
lnu 1866 another creating the grade of admira
Ia the first time either grade had bee
Da' known in our service. 1t was vi
~ derstood that an honor to Farragut hs
IN been intended, and he was promptly a.
low vanced.
NV Nv HIS few and brief remaining years we
:. | full of honors Soon after the close OF Il
go war he was invited, with four other gent
H. men of prominence. to accompany II
MI President of the United States on to
dc. through the principal cities OF the countr
e;tb Two years later, command was give
'a.n him of the European squadron, and t
colo Franklin was assigned as his hagsnl
,nIn This cruise, which continued late into t
and second year, was in some OF Its aspects /
cnt most remarkable ever made by an Amer
oiIv can vessel. 1t extended quite arou
o;ng Europe, from the Nevs to the Bosphor'
80 The admiral visited il person every &C
siderable city from Moscow to Stambo
Forty years had passed since, as m
shipman, he had been in European wat
forty years of telling progress. AT eve
, di- point be found subjects for study and to
self for thought. Everywhere public hon
1ant awaited him, and private hospitality
teal | peated ten years later, when another c
wing zen of the republic, without tTapplng s
urn, retInue, and sustaining no onIcial 70
pasS | made tour around the earth. l snail
lain, contend with them who claim these tie
age | monials as national rather than persons
con- as hcnors to the country through the
over zen-albe t in no other of her citizens
Wers our country ever so honored. we
that forbidden to discover in these mamie:
tions a desire to make good any wan
rives comfy during the uncertain years OF
ence war; since the government which
ocial been our steadfast friend was even M
profuse of courtesies than some others y
leans which our relations had been strained.
ed to With the return of the admiral to An
rmed ica near the close of 1868, his sea life enc
eracy The next summer he revisited the Fa'
ID at coast and was greeted with the same
of come that met him elsewhere his
ppose residence there, just before the war,
,r the gained for him most OF frlehos, VINO q
would cred lovingly around him.
Eng When he returned to the East his b g
Ulcers gave way, and was never re>estaolis
: too The following season steamer was pis
mand at his service by the Navy Department
ION of convened him with his family to r.
know mouth, New Hampshire. But the Or
of the sea and the invigorating atmosp
~, On of New England had for him no lite
in the tanning power. The hand OF death
ee of upon him. and he breathed his last the
alton of August, 1870, just on the verge OF tn
ere all score wears and ten, and after almost S
alism yeals in the public service, three-1o9
on of of which had been given to active q
rela- either at sea or or shore His country
ay, with obsequies suitable to his rank
ign of high renown, buried him ear the {
averal mercial metropolis, in which, at the
ration of the war, he had made his residence.
rs and passed away, in the fullness OF years al
then years and of fame, the great admire
minis gorgeous sunset after Respondent da.
under The incidents of his life aptly illusi
Mt, he the Union for the preservation OF Wnlc
the Ia devoted his ripest powers. The con
lations of the South shed ltheir intiue
d pro- around his cradle, and after life's
han fever he sleeps we'll under q orthern
Porter, The North and the South, the East ant
srman, boundless West, and the common cou
Grated to which, and not to part, he conseci
1868, his manly gifts and it is no soieclsn
after assert that IN this case the whole IS gr
s now than all its parts. And when the
source, comes-ss comes it will-that the chill
Id vir OF the South, seeing the glory and the
.A passing prosperity ofthe nation, sha!
rations joi that they, too, retain their BIRTH
iobile. in the matches Inheritance they
in the have nothing but blessings and ben
Sed di- tions for the brave, true-hearted ms
IS. At the sea, who labored wisely and unse
uld be ~ to prev ent its bang madly thrown a
lguage =, The character of Admiral Farr
a mel would be left incomplete were no me
of the made of the deep religious sentiment v
impor- pervaded it. No puritan of CromN
r than army trusted more implicitly in an
ng at it ruling Providence, or looked upon hi
e light more humb y as an instrument in the u
think hand for the accom- Dlisb ment of the G