The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-01

d single year, % French prizes, voiced
in that defiant answer the sentiments
of all the rebels in the colonies that
catching them was an essential pre-
lin1inaEy TO the hanging business
Who first raised the American flag on
a ship of war, is one of the disputed
questions of history. John Adams
claimed the honor for Captain John
Manly, a New Englander Paul Jones
asserted that my Chis) hand first
hCisted the American flag" He was
then a lieutenant on the frigate Alfred.
There We're several American flags at
the time, and Paul Jones does not de-
scribe his particular one. Some histor-
ians think it was the pine tree and rat
tlesnake flag, with the motto: An APP
peal to God: Don't tread on me-" 9th
ers assert that it was d flag consisting
of Is stripes. with the motto: Don
tread on me-" and rattlesnake
stretched diagonaily across them.
SOME OF PAUL JONES SAYINGS.
Il have not yet begun TO fight" was
one OF Paul Jones' famous replies to a
British captain with whom he had been
fiercely engaged for over an hour, and
who desired TO know il he had surren-
dered. It was not Jones who surren-
dered when the battle came to an end.
That was the celebrated engagement
between the Scraps and the Bonhomme
Richard. The captain of the Scraps
having been knighted for his gallantry
on that occasion by George H. Jones,
wien he heard Of the promotion, char
acteristically remarked: Never mind;
il i meet him again, III make lord of
him"
The first commodore of the young
American navy was Captain John
Barry. In the spring of 1871 he was
-hailed by d British ship on his way
from Havana To the inquiry as to his
identity, he replied: The United States
ship Alliance. Saucy Jack Barry, half
Irishman. half Yankee; who are your
Not the value nor the command Of
the whole British fleet could tempt me
from the American cause" was the
heroic reply of Barry to Lord Howe, in
1875. when he offered him $4,000 guineaS
and commission in the English navy
to join the royal cause. Equally heroic
was the reply Of the captive American
sailor. Nathan Coffin, when asked to
enter the kings service: Hang me, if
YOU viii. to the yard arm, but do not
ask me to become a traitor to my coun-
ary."
DECATUR'S RINGING WORDS.
Commodore Stephen Decatur was
that ever walked the quarter
deck. His famous toast at
public dinner in Norfolk, Va, in 1916,
ssOur country In her Intercourse with
foreign nations may she always be in
The right; but our country, right or
wrong" would. if he had never said or
done anything else, have won him i'm
mortality The destruction by him OF
the frigate Philadelphia in the harbor
of Tripoli was declared by Lord Nelson
TO be The most bold and daring act of
the age" Decatur was as generous
as he was brave Il cannot" said he
TO Captain Garden of the Macedonian,
as he offered 10 surrender his sword,
take the sword OF a man who has so
brayely defended his ship. but I'll
thank you for that hat" This was in
the 1912 war. ard the reference to the
hat was a reminder of bet between
the two officers, made previous TO the
outbreak of hostilities, in regard TO the
fighting powers of their ships. At the
first fire the Macedonian lost her tniz-
zennast. Hearing a sailor remark TO
one of his mates that they had made
a trlg of her." Decatur added: Take
good aim, my lads, at the mainmast,
and wen make q sloop of her.
To the hail of a squadron OF Algerine
pirates. while cruising in the Mediter-
ranean of Dove audte?" ('Where are
YOU eoing2'') Decatur from his lone
ship answered back, Dove mi place
(sWhere I please'), and they let him
go. Toward the close of the Algerine
war one Of their captains sought for de-
Law in order to gain some advantage. /
Not minute" replied Decatur, with a.
threat to capture a pirate squadron II
his terms were not complied with in
stanter. Toward the close of the 1872