The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-02
LIES MOST THRILLING MOMENT
Admiral Schey Writes About the Incident of His Career
Which Most Impressed Him.

home. As Mr.. Lincoln was the choice
of the majority of me officers and men
in the frigate Niagara, so we We're to
learn subsequently he was also the
choice of the nation.
THE FIRST NEWS.
When off the highlands a pilot boat
was discovered near by, and the pilot
put off in a boat with his pockets fun.
as is customarily done, of the latest
papers. He was awaited with an i'm
patience that seemed almost painful,
and the moment he had crossed the rail
and reached the gangway ne was asked
by the captain. dear old Commodore
Mexican, than in whom no more loyal
heart ever beat for the dag, this ques-
ton:
"pilot. what is the news"
The pilot, Deliver was his name,
looked around at all standing about the
quarterback, apparently amazed at the
question, for what he was about TO tell
us as news was quite cid to him. and,
instead of replying at once to this ques
ton, the pilot. as so often happens,
asked the captain, With some surprise:
Where in thunder have you come
from, captain?"
When told more politely, if less en-
come from Hongkong, the pilot followed
this information with another question:
'Ain't you heard nothing at all since
sailing?"
NO" replied the captain, nothing
at all. as we have touched nowhere
since leaving the Cape of Good Hope.
There was no news there when we
sailed
Delivers reply to this assurance 1
shall never forget. 1t was as forcible as
it was emphatic, and as impressive as
words could possibly make it, even if it
was a little inelegant:
We'll, gentlemen, the country is all
busted to hi"
AN EXCITED SHIPS COMPANY.
While this colloquy was going on be-
tween the pilot and the captain, the
ships company had crowded aft in beth
gangways. and. like the officers. were
intensely anxious to hear what the
news might be. What Deliver had said
so emphatically had reached their ears,
and had touched their hearts. Tears
started from eyes that were not accus-
toned to weeping, and coursed down
the cheeks of those br1nzed old heroes.
1t could be seen that a firm resolve to
stick Loyalty to the old flag that had
floated in honor over their lives and
fortunes had gone deep into Their sous
for almost Immediately every eye was
turned upward toward the peak, where
the old flag was floating peacefully and
majestically, and, intuitively, every
head was uncovered in homage.
1t was an experience never 20 be for
gotten, and the sight of those bronZed
old heroes, with heads uncovered to the
dear old flag, taught my young heart
in a few moments a whole volume of
patriotism. had been born in slave
holding state, and had been reared sur
rounded by colored children, and was
influenced to some extent by the preju-
dices which the institution of slavery
had engendered, but when it became
necessary to decide off Boston harbor
whether the love of state was to be
superior to the love of country, and
my pride in it's glories and in it's his
tory, there was no trouble after the
sight I had witnessed when Pilot Doll
yer came aboard.
AN IMPRESSIVE SCENE.
Reaching Boston harbor in the midst
of deep excitement and deeper feelings
among those holding opposite views, a
number of our officers decided to aban-
don the cause of the Union for that of
the confederacy then established. Those
who We're loyal We're merely required to
subscribe anew to their oath of allegi-
ance. After carefully examining this
new document it was not difficult to
renew my allegiance at a moment when
so many were abandoning our cause.
The scene off the highlands when Doll
yer came on board had craven it's i'm
preston too surely upon my heart.
Those uncovered heads, those fearful
eyes, those loving, loyal looks of the
faithful old bronZed faces, who had
known no other love and who We're too
old. then to begin anew, had fashioned
my young fancies, too, and after I had
renewed my allegiance in the cabin of
the dear old commodore, 1 looked up
and found 1 had done so standing di-
rectly under a scuttle leading to the
poop deck, and directly under the folds
of the old flag, as it was gracefully I'M
folding itself to a light breeze, all the
more dear to me now after the expo
sures we have undergone and the per-
lis of service to which our lives have
been devoted in helping others to up
hold it the world over, for those of our
land who in their time and turn are to
follow us in holding fast to the teach
ings of our fathers, and, like them, to
preserve the inheritance of this blessed
land of liberty for those to follow
them.