Chapter VII: Horace Greeley

The Scotch-Irish Race in the United States--Mr. Greeley a Partly
Reversed Specimen of it--His Birth and Boyhood--Learns to
Read Books Upside Down--His Apprenticeship on a Newspaper--
The Town Encyclopedia--His Industry at his Trade--His First
Experience of a Fugitive Slave Chase--His First Appearance in
New York--The Work on the Polyglot Testament--Mr. Greeley
as "The Ghost"--The First Cheap Daily Paper--The Firm of
Greeley & Story--The New Yorker, the Jeffersonian and the Log
Cabin--Mr. Greeley as Editor of the New Yorker--Beginning of
The Tribune--Mr. Greeley's Theory of a Political Newspaper--
His Love for The Tribune--The First Week of that Paper--The
Attack of the Sun and its Result--Mr. McElrath's Partnership
--Mr. Greeley's Fourierism--"The Bloody Sixth"--The Cooper
Libel Suits--Mr. Greeley in Congress--He Goes to Europe--
His Course in the Rebellion--His Ambition and Qualifications
for Office--The Key-Note of his Character. 293

CHAPTER VIII.--DAVID G. 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 1861--Admiral Farragut Represents the Old
Navy and the New--Charlemagne's Physician, Farraguth--The
Admiral's Letter about his Family--His Birth--His Cruise
with Porter when a Boy of Nine--The Destruction of the Essex
--Farragut 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. 311

CHAPTER IX.--JOHN A. ANDREW.

Governor Andrew's Death Caused by the War--The Governors Dr.
Beecher Prayed for--Governor Andrew a Christian Governor--
Gov. Andrew's Birth--He goes to Boston to Study Law--Not
Averse to unfashionable and Unpopular Causes--His Cheerfulness
and Social Accomplishments--His Sunday School Work--Lives
Plainly--His Clear Foresight of the War--Sends a Thousand
Men to Washington in One Day--The Story of the Blue Overcoats
--The Telegram for the Bodies of the Dead of Baltimore--Gov.
Andrew's Tender Care for the Poor--The British Minister and the
Colored Women--The Governor's Kindness to the Soldier's Wife
--His Biblical Proclamations--The Thanksgiving Proclamation
of 1861--The Proclamation of 1862--His Interest in the
Schools for the Richmond Poor--Cotton Mather's Eulogy on Gov.
Winthrop--Gov. Andrew's Farewell Address to the Massachusetts
Legislature--State Gratitude to Gov. Andrew's Family. 325