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CHAPTER VIII.

DAVID GLASCOE FARRAGUT.

The Lesson of the Rebellion to Monarchs-The Strength of the United States— The U S. Naval Service-The Last War-State of the Navy in 1861Admiral Farragut Represents the Old Navy and the New-Charlemagne's Physician, Farraguth-The Admiral's Letter about his Family--His BirthHis Cruise with Porter when a Boy of Nine-The Destruction of the EssexFarragut in Peace Times-Expected to go with the South-Refuses, is Threatened, and goes North-The Opening of the Mississippi-The Bay Fight at Mobile-The Admiral's Health-Farragut and the Tobacco Bishop.

THE Course and character and result of the Rebellion taught many a great new lesson; in political morals and in political economy; in international law; in the theory of governing; in the significance of just principles on this earth. Perhaps all those lessons, taught so tremendously to the civilized world, might be summed in one expression; the Astounding Strength of a Christian Republic. For, whichever phase of the Rebellion we examine in considering it as a chapter of novelties in the world's history, we still come back to that one splendid, heart-filling remembrance;-How unexpected, how unbelieved, how inexhaustible, how magnificent beyond all history, the strength of the United States!

"There goes your Model Republic," sneered all the Upper Classes of Europe, "knocked into splinters in the course of one man's life! A good riddance!" And reactionary Europe set instantly to work to league

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