The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-01

Know every detail Of your life. Your joys and
your sorrows arc theirs. They have traced
your ancestry and your character and deeds
from the cradle rocked By q fond mother to the
Olympia rocked by the rolling wuves Of the
mighty deep. They listen with delight to the
story OF the fighting Deweys bravely doing
their duty In every war OF their country for
TWO hundred and nifty years: OF your pointing
out. whom mere child. to your father the pic
lures In the clouds OF ships and bait es. includ-
ing the battle OF Lake Erie and the form OF
Perry saving his country's flag from the dis
abled ship: OF tho devotional impress
stamped upon your character by q loving
mother; OF your struggle with the school,
master. which taught the necessity Of
discipline in the affairs OF life: OF
your inherited love for children and
music: OF your alert. bright and vivacious
boyhoo1. mingled with the mischlevous. hut
never with the malicious: Of your deferential
respect for those OF your mothers sex Of the
romance Of your courtship and Happy mar
rlage: OF your service under Admiral FarraGut
In the Gulf squadron as the executive oficer
OF the Mississippi. when you plunged iron shot
and shell through the armor Of the Confederate
ram Manassas: OF the sturdy and fearless
manner In which you defended your ship
against the guns OF Port Hudson. and the quiet
and orderly manner in which you abandoned
her when she sunk. calling for special COM
mcndation Of your sunerors In their report: OF
the crcu m stance that between wars Farragut
for forty eight years aud you for thirty-seven
Years devoted yourselves to the study OF your
professions. and both at the end OF a long
peace were found fully equipped and ready to
give their country splendid service and to
raise themselves to the highest place Of fame
and renown.
Tho romance of sea warfare has charmed
and enchanted the i'm az nation OF man as no
other theme has ever DONE arousing In him
the sentiment Of patriotism and inspiring the
poet with songs OF his country and her heroes.
This has always been So whether in the times
when Neptune with trident rode the sea In
shell-shaped boat drawn by dolphins or when
the vikings roved the North main carrying
all before them. or when the sea kings with
tho modern navy were stationed upon the
ocean to guard and protect the equal rights OF
Civilized governments and their commerce
upon the highways OF the sea.
The world stood enthralled and then broke
out In loud huzzas which can never be
siIenced. when tho electric spark flashed tho
news over the globe that on the frat day OF
May. 1893. your fleet had destroyed In Manila
Bay the Spanish navy. silenoing tina forts and
taking the Philippine islands. thus stripping
the East OF every vestge OF Spanish domina-
tion. Spain was that m ONE emit conquered. The
Pacific Ocean was that instant cleared Of hos
tile forces. leaving to tho remainder OF our
naval and land forces the task Of sweeping
clean the Atlantic Ocean and her islands OF the
depressed. hslt-famished and scattered bands
OF Spanish stragglers
This all was accomplished in q naval battle Of
less than seven hours. including the oooly
ordered intsrmisson for breakfast. Not an
Ann laI hut -.
laid low. seven hundred wounded, the Spanish
navy destroyed and an ON pire lost to her for
ever. History records no achievement OF such
superb completeness as tho battle in Manila
Bay
This demonstration is NO more tribute to a
personal friend, a fellow citizen 1t Ia simple
and deserved recognition OF the debt due the
public servant who has proved himself erandly
and efficiently faithful to his country's welfare
and honor. You are called a man Of destiny
You iare-but it 10 the destiny Of merit and
worth--the conscientious obedience to duty of
one skilled In his art and judgment
Our Republic has no reason to fear COM
parison OF her sea- fighters with those Of other
nations. The birth OF the Republic gave her
Paul Jones the war for freedom OF ocean high
ways gave her Perry. and the war for her moral
and physical Integrity gave her FarraRut. She
po.h.n WIN w aa, oue vi shis trinity ana
w. ,o,in.t sn,in waoad ror comn,nn hn0
m,nitv,. snke in hebnIf y, ber ,sland n.iah-
hora gave h.r Dev.v Who can sa,eIv he nro-
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living man. this would be known as the Dewey
age SOLITARY IN .ns eranueur o. your schieVe-
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gone De'o.e you.
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