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Its romance has departed. Our ships should be manned from our boiler shops, and officered from our institutions of technology. There will be no more Decaturs, Somerses, Farraguts, Cushings."
Sometimes they howled gossip to other people on other rickety porches. The thin wail of a baby arose from a near house. A man had a terrific altercation with his wife, to which the alley paid no attention at all. There appeared suddenly before the Farraguts a monster making a low and sweeping bow.
He was obliged to escort the little girl home because she screamed again when they opened the door and she saw the night. She was not coherent even to her mother. Was it a man? She didn't know. It was simply a thing, a dreadful thing. In Watermelon Alley the Farraguts were spending their evening as usual on the little rickety porch.
We who have had so many heroes, such great sailors, such splendid leaders, such explorers our Stanleys, our Farraguts, our Decaturs, our De Longs, our Lockwoods how we would stand ashamed before the world if some other nation should succeed where we have all but succeeded Norway, or France, or Russia, or England profiting by our experiences, following where we have made the way!"
The sufferer was David Porter, father of Captain Porter of the Essex, at that time in charge of the naval station at New Orleans. Captain Porter was informed of the accident to his father, and hastened to the home of the Farraguts.
This was soon after divided into two parts by a line following the thirty-third parallel of north latitude, and Claiborne became governor of the southern division, which was called the Territory of Orleans. To this may probably be attributed the removal of the Farraguts to Louisiana from eastern Tennessee.
The latter deeply felt the kindness shown to his father by the Farraguts. Mrs. Farragut herself died of yellow fever, toward the end of Mr. Porter's illness, the funeral of the two taking place on the same day; and Commander Porter soon after visited the family at their home and offered to adopt one of the children.
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