Mr. Greeley has at various times been spoken of as a candidate for State offices, and he undoubtedly has a certain share of ambition for high political position--an ambition which is assuredly entitled to be excused if not respected by American citizens. Yet any sound mind, it is believed, must be forced to the belief that his highest and fittest place is the Chief Editor's chair in the office of The Tribune. There he wields a great, a laboriously and honestly acquired influence, an influence of the greatest importance to Society. His friends would be sorry to see him leave that station for any other. Mr. Greeley's character and career as an editor and politician can be understood and appreciated by remembering his key note:--_Benevolent ends, by utilitarian means_. He desires the amelioration of all human conditions and the instrumentalities which he would propose are generally practical, common sense ones. Of magnificence, of formalities, of all the conventional part of life, whether in public or private, he is by nature as utterly neglectful as he is of the dandy element in costume, but he has a solid and real appreciation of many appreciable things, which go to make up the sum total of human advancement and happiness. [Illustration: D. G. Farragut] 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 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. 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!