How well he and like-minded men succeeded, is now known to all—except an occasional hot head in which passion outruns information. It is perfectly safe for a person seeking either notoriety or satisfaction to challenge a naval officer of the United States to fight a duel. One familiar with the “Laws for the better government of the Navy” need have no fears of the result. Neither government nor individuals now consider “a single person entitled to a whole war.”
| [70] | J. Q. Adams’ Works, Vol. X, p. 48; and Journal of same year. |
| [71] | Niles Register, Vol. LV, (from September, 1838 to March, 1839, pp. 61, 62, 104, 105, 132, 133, 258.) |
| [72] | Letters. U. S. Navy Archives, August, 10th, 1841; February, 1845. |
VIII.
MEMORIALS IN ART OF M. C. PERRY.
Portraits.
By William Sidney Mount in 1835, when M. C. Perry was forty years old, now in possession of one of the Commodore’s children.
One at the time of his marriage.