The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-10-07
BEHOLD THE SHIPS"
d.. Talnags breaches o. the GlWy
Of tie Navy.
A. Appropriate SerSsa fer Adairsi
Bs-es's He@e CsaiHE IT,
fsiL-sssa. tres ths uves
81 Naval Heroe

E..lEEt UeE o. Z cruiser NN zf-4AE
the uzgzisoent reception scccrcc 20
them Rev. d. 7. Dewitt TA1Hge IN
this sermon. preaching to = vast EU6r
snce. appropriately reoAiis for esvoui
AID patriotic purposes soze % me
great naval deeds o. oHsa Ard Do-su-
cent tines Text. JLzeE & -Bekol4
also the shipS
II his eNclaUstioa vas EPqroP1Ais
abo1f is1 yesrs age Nksn il Ess writ
tea conosrulng the crude EsAi-g s-acks
that sailed Lake 6Lles how zUeA
more appropriate IN A. age wsieA has
Aunehed from The erytoeA for Pur
poses o. pesoe the OceEaiS q tAs Waite
St2r line: the LzzEiA Q, the CUzArt
Lne. The 81 LOSS o, TIE A7s10z
Hns. the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
o. TIE North German Lloyd Inc. the
Augusta Victoria q the HAzbGg
American lzs Ez5 IN A. age wkSeA for
purposes q VA has huneAed the Ore
gu1 The B-ooEU. tie Tens the olyz-
pa. the Iowa the Massachusetts the
Indiana the New York. the NsriertA q
the Iowa he Massachusetts, TIE II
diana. the New York the Marietta q
the lzst war, and the scErre6 vsEsrzns
% war Shipping. Ike TIE CO-sd1EuO1.
or the AEx.cs O. the Constellation.
thai have swung into The EErAl yErcs
10 spend their last 6zyA tksr decks
row II Slgzt Of the feet TIA. troS then,
their rigging al Elszt q the hands
that elUag 10 them their Portholss al
lent o: the brz1sz threats that o2es
thua6ered out Of then
II II the first century. when Wal vss-
ssls were dsPel6elt OF the osrs that
padded :; the SIDE Of then for propnl-
sion, ny text was suggestive. with how
much more emphasis and meaning and
. overs heluiEg "reminiscences We can cry
out Is we see the Kezrsargs lzy seross
the bows o: the AAbzua and SILK II,
teaching foreign nations they had bet
ter keep their hands Of our American
fgh;. or as We see the ram AIoemArls
Of the eonfederstss running out ard in
the Roanoke and up and down the coast.
throwing everything into confusion as
10 other craft ever did. pursued by the
[ Miami. the Ceres. the Southheld, the
SzssAcuss, the Mattabese;t, the White
head. the Commodore Hull. the Louisi-
ana. the Minnesota and other armed YES
sells. all irving IN vain to catch her. IN
til Cspt. Gushing, p years Of age. and
his men blew her up, himself and only
n other escaping. and as see the flag
ship Hartford. and the Richmond, aud
the MonongahelA. with other gunboats,
sweep past the batteries OF Port Hud.
SGT. and the Mississippi flows forever
free TO all northern and southern craft,
and under the FIRE Of Dewey and his men
the spanish ships at Manila burn or
sink. and the feet rushing nj Of san
tiago hhrbor are demolished By our
guns. and the brave Cervera ~surrenders,
I cry Out with a patriotic emotion tina,
J cannot suppress II I would, and would
not II ! could: "Rehold also the shipkl'
Full justice has been done to the men
who at different times fought on the
land. but not enough has been said Of
those who on ships deck dared and suf'
fered all things. Lord God Of the river
and the sea, help me 10 this sermonl
so, We admlrah, commanders, captains
pilots, gunners, b~oatswainS, kailmak
ers, surgeons, stokers, meksmAtes ant
seamen Of all names. 10 use your owl
pArlsDoe. we might as well get undeI
way and stand out 10 sea. Let all land
lubbers 60 ashore. Full speed now
Four bells!
Never since the sea fight Of Lepanto
where 800 royal galleys, manned by so,
900 warriors, at sunrise September 9
1871, met $50 royal gAlleys, manned b!
II 5000 men, and in the four hours o
battle 5000 fell on one side and $500
on the other; yea, never since the da,
when at Actium, 81 years before Christ
Augustus with 26O ships scattered tn
220 ships OF Mark Antony and game
universal dominion as the prize; yea
since the day when at Salamis the l,20
galleyE Of the Perslans, manned b
100000 men, were crushed by Greek
with less than a third Of that force; yea
never since the time OF Noah, the frs
ship captain, has the world seer sue
a miraculous creation as that Of tn
American navy in 1861.
There were about 200 available ses
men in all the naval stations and r,
ceiving ships, and here and there a
( old vessel. Yet orders were given {
{ blockade $500 miles Of s~eacoast, create
than the whole coast Of Europe; ant
besides that, the Ohio, Tennessee, Gun
berlsnd. Mississippi and other gres
rivers, covering an extent Of 1000 moi
miles. were TO be patrolled. No woi
der the whole civilized world burst int
outlaws Of laughter at the seeming In
possibility. But the work was don
done almost Immediately, done tho
oughly and done with a speed and col
Eummate skill that eclipsed all the hi
tory Of naval architecture,
In the cemeteries for federal an
confederate dead are the bodies of mo
Of those who fell on the land. Bl
where those are who went down In Il
70 war vessels will not be known uni
y the sea gives up its dead. The jack tai
J. knew that while loving arms migl
,. carry the men who fell on the lar
y and bury them with solemn liturgy al
Il the honors OF war, for the bodies
re those who dropped from the ratlin
70 into the sea or went down with all
a board under the stroke Of a gunbo
there remained the shark and the whs
and the endless tossing Of the sea viii
cannot rest. Once a year, In the dec
ration Of the graves, those who fell
the land were remembered. But be
about the graves Of those who we
down at sea? Nothing but the arc
angels trumpet shall reach their low
bed. A few OF them were gathered In
naval cemeteries Of the land, and
/ every year garland the sod that cove
them. But who will put flowers on {
fallen crew Of the exploded Westft
~ and S%hawsheen and the sunken Sout
- feld and the Winfield Scott? Bull'
threatening in front, bombs threatt
ening from above, torpedoes threate
ing from beneath, and the ocean, wi
its reputation Of G,OOO years for ShI
wreck, lying all around, i'm / not rig
~ In saying 1t required a special coura
" for the navy In 1868 as 1t required 81
Vs. cisl courage IN 1882
u II looks picturesque and beautiful
see q val vessel going out through I
Sarrows, sailors in new rig singing
A life on the ocean rave.
A home on the rolling deep.
I'M the colors gracefully dipping to passi
ships, the decks Immediately clean a
&C the guns at quarantine firing a parti
nR salute. But the poetry is all gone {
To- Of that ship as It comes out Of II
Ike engagement, its decks red with hum
blood, %wheelhouse gone, the cabin
pile Of shattered mirrors and destroy
~ sVrufepNa ataarfpn uhaal hrnk.