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 CHAPTER X.--SCHUYLER COLFAX.