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 send him and every soul with him into eternity; fighting a fleet of twice his numbers backed up by bristling land batteries; yet working so effectively that he coolly suspends the battle for twenty minutes till his men have breakfast; and then makes such thorough work of it that the whole civilized world looks on in amazement; and he awakens to the satisfaction that he has done more than any other man in this century to knit the hearts of his fellow-countrymen together as one man. And he, the New York Herald says, at sixty-one "one of the finest-looking men in the navy, which is saying a great deal; known as 'Gentleman George.' A great club-man and a huntsman of no mean repute; in riding to the hounds he has often distinguished himself, while as a daring horseman he probably has no superior in this country. "

But we need not offer more proof, save one instance—a more magnificent one in some respects than any of the rest. A man whose virtues we know; whose life we know; whose work we know; but whose preparation for that work, in the field now under consideration, is not generally known.