Rejoiced at heart to be off again "Victor Blue! What a name it is For a deed of old renown How it stirs the blood, how the fancy wakes "Why, you see the flag, its stars and stripes, And you know some deed of desperate need Yes, it was to Hobson, of Alabama, and Blue, of North Carolina-Southerners and sons of Confederate soldiers-that the admiral turned for "deeds of desperate need"; and when the shock of battle came between the opposing fleets, it was the Southerner, Winfield Scott Schley, who commanded the American ships in the action that resulted in the greatest victory of the war. When it was thought that it would be necessary to send an armored squadron to the coast of Spain, a Southern man-John Crittenden Watson, grandson of the illustrious Southern statesman, John J. Crittenden-was selected for its commander; and a Southern man-Elwell S. Otis-was made commander-in-chief of the American forces in the Philippines. The Inspector-General of the army was Joseph C. Breckinridge, another Southerner, who took the field as major-general of volunteers and whose horse was shot under him before Santiago; nor should it be for gotten that the man who occupied the position of consul at Havana in the trying days preceding the outbreak of hostilities, and guarded the interests of the United States with unfaltering patriotism and unfailing judgment, was Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, a general of the Confederate army, who, on the termination of his consulship, tendered his services as a soldier, and was mustered into the volunteer army as a majorgeneral just before General Wheeler was. The first of the major-generals of volunteers mustered in at the outbreak of the war was a Southern man, and of the other ten mustered in on the same occasion four were Southern, four Northern, and one was Irish; and among the brigadier-generals was another Southerner in the person of General William C. Oates, a colonel in the Confederate army, who was wounded six times and lost his right arm in the war between the States, and who-like Wheeler and like Hobson-was from Alabama. That's the South-thus was she illustrated-in the Spanish-American war. What of New England? Let a Northern witness answer. Said the Milwaukee Sentinel: "The scare in New England over the chances of a Spanish raid on her coasts is about the most absurd thing developed in the war. There is not now and has not been the least sign that such a thing is possible. The Spanish fleet has enough to do without getting so far from support. The coast is regularly patrolled and communication cannot be interrupted. Yet that coast seems to be frightened out of its wits. It behaved in just that way in 1812 when there was really some danger. Yet what did it amount to? Not a raid; yet they refused to furnish their quota for fear something would happen. This time the quota will be furnished, but in raw recruits; the National guard stays at home. Do they imagine that The Southern coast is * there will be an invasion? * much more exposed and more defenceless, yet we never hear a word from them about fear of attack. They send on the best men they have, promptly. The contrast is not to the advantage of the East." What a difference it would make if the contributions of Southern thought in the fields of statesmanship, of science and invention, and the achievements of Southern enterprise and action were stricken from the pages of American history! [From The New York Tribune, June 16, 1898.] AMERICAN DEEDS OF DARING. THE CONFEDERATES GLASSELL AND DIXON COMPARED WITH CUSHING AND HOBSON. To The Editor of The Tribune. Sir: It is a mistake to suppose that Lieutenant Cushing's attack on the Albemarle is the only deed in American naval annals worthy of comparison with Lieutenant Hobson's daring action at Santiago. The year before Cushing's attack on the Albemarle, Commander W. T. Glassell, of the Confederate States navy, made a similar attack on the New Ironsides, of the blockading fleet off Charleston harbor. Cushing's attack was made in a steam launch, equipped with a torpedo and a brass howitzer. His crew consisted of thirteen officers and men, most of whom were captured, but he escaped. Glassell's attack was made in a steam launch, equipped with a torpedo and manned by himself, an engineer, a pilot and a fireman. Not as fortunate as Cushing, his approach was discovered, and he was hailed by the lookout, but he steered straight on for the Ironsides till he struck her. A terrific fire was at once opened on him, his little boat was covered with the immense volume of water thrown up by the explosion, and its engine was made unmanageable by falling timber, and there was nothing left for him. but to swim for life and liberty. He did not escape, and his daring act was not as completely successful as it might have been had his approach not been discovered as soon as it was. The Ironsides escaped destruction by the narrowest margin, being made useless for a long time by the terrible and well-nigh fatal blow she had received. She was doubtless a stronger, more powerful ship than the Confederacy, with its limited resources, had been able to make of the Albemarle, and was the pride of the blockading fleet, which, at the time of Glassell's attack, numbered thirteen large ships and ironclads, with more than a score of other vessels. It was against the monarch of that powerful fleet that Glassell and his three comrades drove their little boat on the night of October 5, 1863. Shall not their names go on the scroll of fame along with Hobson's and Cushing's? And then let not those who are recounting patriotic deeds of devoted daring forget the story of the submarine boat-the only one of its character that won a record during the war between the States-constructed by the Confederates for the purpose of attacking and destroying the ships of the Federal fleet then blockading the Southern harbor. Her crew consisted of nine men. Three trials made with her resulted in the death of twenty-three men who had undertaken the desperate work for which she was |