Los Angeles herald., 1891-02-23

tne TACT that appeals came to him fOi
ten times the amount of his income was
a continual source OF distress.
General McCook then read a charac.
teristic letter penned by his friend in
reply to New Years. invitation to visit
Southern California, and closed his ad.
dress in the following words:
Comrades, whilst we shall never
again on earth stand face to face with
our loving friend, nor hear the cheering
words OF his inspiring tongue. we can be
with him in spirit, and can keep his
memory green in our hearts by indulg-
ing the hope that the principles for
which he fought may endure as long as
the bronze and granite OF his monu-
ment.
A burst OF applause greeted the close
OF the generals address, and the pent-
up feelings of his audience found vent
in spite OF the surroundings.
In the absence of Miss Adele NJ.
Brown, the Battle Hymn of the Repub-
Tic was very acceptably sung by Mr.. j.
Osgood and chorus.
Major II. G.. Rollins was then intro
duced, and in his most eloquent manner
he delivered the following address
upon the late Admiral d. D. Porter:
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
1t is befitting and proper that here,
| upon this far western shore of our COM
mon country, the surviving companions
and comrades of the army and navy, the
Loyal Legion of the United States and
the Grand Army Of the Republic, should
unite with the officers and men of the
regular army and of the National Guard
OF California, with the Relief Corps and
the Sons of Veterans, and with all good
citizens, and should here, upon this holy
day, in this temple dedicated to the
worship of Almighty God, pay the last
memorial tribute of respect and love to
the memory and the character, to the
service and the fame of the departed
heroes. who, during terrible conflict.
upheld the national flag upon the land
and prevented its dropping in the
troubled waters of the sea.
1t is happy coincident that these
simple memorial services should occur
upon the anniversary of the birth of our
first great national hero, who, without
any lineage of name, or heritage of title.
became by worthy service and heroic
deed, the head of great nation, "first
in war, first in peace, and first in the
hearts OF his countrymen."
BY worthy service and heroic deed the
first OF the great triumvirate of Ameri-
can generals rose from the vendor of
wood in western city to be the COM
mander OF nations armies, twice pres
ident OF the republic, and then, later
on, greeted by uncovered royal heads in
all the earth's great palaces as the well
come guest of kingdoms and empires,
and at last died bemourned and beloved
by the loyal millions of his countrymen.
BY worthy service and heroic deed. he
OF the dashing horse-the matchless
Sheridan-the harbinger of the very
genius OF enthusiasm to desponding
troops upon the battlefeld-the Murat
OF our war, became from lieutenant at
a frontier post, the commander-in-chief
OF the military forces of the United
States, and died with his memory warm
IN the hearts OF proud and grateful
people.
By worthy service and heroic deed the
last OF the mighty trio, he who has been
so eloquently eulogized by General Nc
Cook, he who was known to more
American men and women, to more
American boys and girls. than any other
man, and "none knew him but to love-"
rose from humble employment to the
command of the army.
by worthy service and heroic deed the
great hero of our navy, with reference
to whose service and character has been
assigned me the duty of saying a word,
rose from an unknown midshipman to
walk, in supreme authority, the quarter
deck OF an American man-of-war, and
then to be admiral of the navy when
the battle-ships of the republic, respect
ed and honored, rode the peaceful wa
ters Of the round world.
The people know less OF naval hero
than they do of the successful COM
mander of an army. The reason for
this is, in part, that his individual hero
ism is displayed within the narrow con-
fines OF floating citadel, and not upon
the broad field of the evolution of con-
tending columns. His services are more
hazardous than those of the commander
of an army, inasmuch as the security
OF being upon water is less than that OF
being upon the land.
Admiral David Dixon Porter's days
were OF immense value to the country
which gave him birth, and in whose SER
vice ne was for the period of sixty-four
years. His father was a distinguished
naval officer of the war of 1912.
Porter was man of somewhat i'm
perious bearing, dogmatic in his opin-
ions, OF masterly determination, OF un-
yielding purpose.
Porter insisted that Fort Fisher should
not he abandoned, notwithstanding the
previous failure to take it. He sailed
up before it with the greatest armada
which ever assaulted an earthly fortress.
1t is unnecessary to say that the fort was
taken. (He always took everything he
assaulted-except Ben Butler.)
He was a man fruitful in resources.
He sent his Quaker gunboat, made of an
old scow, pork barrels, abandoned
canoes for quarter-boats, and a mud fur
mace, down the Mississippi, and laughed
to see the rebels lombard it. In the
meantime the Indianola, which the con-
federates had captured, was DESTROYED
by themselves before they discovered
the joke being played upon them by the
Yankee commodore.
In the opening of the lower Missis-
sippi, immediately after the capture of
New Orleans by Admiral Farragut,
Commodore Porter played an important
part.
The story has been portrayed in poetry
and embalmed in song.
Two forts-Fort st. Philip and Fort
Jackson-one on either side Of the Mis-
sissippi, belched forth the fire of hell
as Porter opened upon them with his
mortar boats, and the torrents of shot