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The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], New music. (search)
ate in those days, away out on the broad sea, her swelling canvas towering to the skies, and the masses of silent, belligerent humanity upon her decks, was not often to be seen. No one cared about entering the army in those times. The Navy was the natural passion, and well it might be. "How are the mighty fallen." How has the glory departed! What has become of the ancient prestige and renown of the American sea kings? Departed forever!--Gone with the Confederates; gone with Semmes, Moffitt, and others, who are the only representatives of its ancient supremacy. The broad ocean is no longer the theatre of the United States Navy. It is rarely seen a dozen miles from shore. It prowis about muddy rivers and narrow bayous; it bombards country villages and defenceless farm houses; it steals sheep, negroes, and chickens. Whereas it used to turn up its nose in supreme contempt at the army, it is now the army's body servant; it follows its master like his shadow, and fetches and ca