"A song for our banner! The watchword recall Which gave the Republic her station; United we stand, divided we fall, It made, and preserves us, a nation! The union of lakes, the union of lands, The union of States none can sever; The union of hearts, the union of hands, And the flag of our Union for ever." The most striking modification of the flag is seen in the Revenue Service. We have still the silver stars on the azure field and the stripes of alternate red and white, but in this special case the stripes, instead of being disposed horizontally, are placed vertically, a slight enough difference apparently, but one which makes a striking alteration in the appearance of the flag. The pendant of the United States Navy is shown in Fig. 151; the stars in it, it will be seen, are reduced to the original thirteen, while the narrowness of the flag permits but two of the stripes. The American Jack is simply the blue and white portion of the National flag, Fig. 146, made into a separate flag. The Commodore's broad pendant is a swallow-tailed blue flag, with one white star in the centre. The Admiral's flag, hoisted at the main, is shown in Fig. 143; the Vice-Admiral's flag, hoisted at the fore, has three white stars on the blue field; and the Rear-Admiral's flag, hoisted at mizen, has two arranged vertically over each other. While in some nationalities the flag of the war navy differs from that of the mercantile marine--as in the case of Great Britain, Germany, and Spain--in others the same flag is used. This is so in the United States, France, etc. The Chief of the State, whether he be called Emperor, King, President, or Sultan, has his own flag--his personal Standard--and this special and personal flag, in the case of the President of the United States, has on its blue field an eagle, bearing on its breast a shield with the stars and stripes, and beneath it the national motto, "_E pluribus unum_." As it has been suggested that the employment of the eagle as a symbol of the State was derived from the crest of Washington, it may not be inopportune to state that the crest in question was not an eagle at all, but a raven. The idea of the eagle, together with the word "Senate," and many such similar {94} things, no doubt arose from their use in ancient Rome, and afforded an illustration the more of the pseudo-classicalism that was raging in the eighteenth century in France and elsewhere. The eagle appears on many of the early flags of America. Fig. 150 is a curious example of its use. In an old engraving we see a figure of Liberty defended by Washington, and above them this flag. In another old print before us we see Washington leaning on a cannon, and behind him a flag bearing the stars and stripes, plus an eagle, that with outstretched wings fills up much of the field, having in his beak a label with the "_E pluribus unum_" upon it, with one foot grasping the thunderbolts of War, and the other the olive-branch of Peace.