The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1884-08-16
The reception of Lieutenant

brain of America. There are times
in the history of. nations when it's
life blood thrills with wild delight,
and the flowing Joy bubbles on every
lip and floats in every eye. The
little band of Arctic heroes, deci-
mated though they were by the
accidents of their situation, stood
shoulder to shoulder in suffering,
sickness, death and faithful unto
the last in that performance Of the
sacred trust imposed upon them;
carried the national flag of America,
now the forlorn hope of the Arctic
world, one step nearer the goal.
The whole world cries out swell
done" and the mother country with
the SHOWS of ten centuries on her
calm brow rejoices in the daughter,
lusty as young,taking up the banner
of science and discovery, and plant
ing it nearer the weird and fascina-
ting pole. Lieutenant Greely has
won his place in every sympathetic
heart, as one of the heroes of Amer
ican adventure. War cannot claim
all the worlds heroes, its favored
sons rise in the Nations armament
midst cries and tears and garments
rolled in blood. These are the
sterner heroes, for in solitude the
most awe-inspiring, darkness, long
and wearisome; amidst perils Of
waters and the ice-Aoe; amid cruel
and crushing disappointments and
deferred hopes; alone, with no inspir-
alton, save that of manhood and
duty, they endured the rigors of the
North, bore the terrible suferings
of a Cape Sabine winter, and carried
the flag.
Never did men more richly de-
serve of the country the hohors
placed at their feet. "No bravel
deed was ever recorded than this
gallant rescue. 1t is an achieve
ment honorable alike to officers and
men, Under pressure of necessity
and Imperative orders, the vessels
crossed Melville Bay and nearel
Cape Sabine; and, the horrors o.
Starvation Camp sanctioned thu
hot haste and terrible energy. Few
stories are more pathetic than th'
rescue of those dying heroes. Lieu
tenant Greely, like the gallant De
Long was reading with feeble
fickeriDg breath, the prayers TO
the dying, and had abandoned
: hope. Slowly the Ice King, tight
ened his tolls, and, alone with hi
God, this Great Heart of Arcti
: discovery prepared to die. Sud
} denly the. loud whistle of the Theft
: broke in upon his solitude, th
American eagle swooped tenderl
on the half-pulseless frame, AM
bore it swiftly to friends and res
and peace; and ere it was too late
this royal band of men-Columbia'
) braves!-were saved. Seldom La
anything stirred the public mind S
deeply as this has done. The Syre
of the North, once more fills tn
: air with her strange, mysterious
: fascinating melody, and men az
imbued with the daring spirit Q
discovery, or the kindlier resolutio
to seek and save those which wer
lost. Lockwood is gone, "but hi
Z soul is marching on" and being dea
' he speaketh more powerfully tina
y when alive: then he swayed a na
Il ton, now a world. These gallar
: fellows did not 60 North for an
! personal ambition, they went in til
u interest of science, of knowledge {
: humanity. Their work was well an
0 faithfully done, and its results cart
Il fully preserved. Nor did they ceas
: till coasts were outlined that here
Il tofore, lived only in the eye of Go,
6 Their work cannot be too highly al
e preciated; sit entities them to tt
highest consideration at home all
!, abroad, as successful contribute,
y to the worlds store of knowledg
y and their lisbors, achievements, an
y heroic conduct, reflect honor upC