The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1855-09-12

Iooe, SHAWL anu cottage hat, she looks 10
far greater advantage that IN full EVENING
costume. She has all the appearance OF
rude health, but is occasionally prey TO
hts OF depression So deep as to occasion
an apprehension of an attack of that NAL.
ady under which her grandfather GEORGE
the Third, suffered, and to make a con.
stant ch nge Of air and scenes necessary.
Whatever qualities she has have been dill.
gently cultivated, but she is not by anv
means what is termed in this country
smart" This is, for many reasons for
tuhate. Were she woman Of superior en-
dowments she would have been obnoxious
10 the arlstocracy, who shrink from moth
ing with greater distrust than from what
ever may be calculated to wound their
dinour propre and remind them Of their
mentai and moral inferiority.
II she were less fertile, she would be
less popular among :he masses. The
poor Irish or English woman, standing
before one Of the pictures in the Strand
which represents the Queen with the roy-
al babies around her, feels fattered by
the reflection that the Queen after all has
the same propensi;ies, instincts, and aE
fections as rule her. The only class of
women who may be said to dislike the
Queen, is the numerous one of broken
down, high-bred, shabby-nenteeI, and
pseudo-poetical women. They snecr at
al the Queens domestic propensities as
the qulntessence Of vuIgarity. They say
she is only virtuous because accident pa.
ces her IN position which allows hei to
gratity luxurious'y every desire.
In the companion portrait the Prince,
we shall enter into particulars ofthe royal
income and expenditure, and other de,; is
tor which we have, in this picture, been
unable to find room. In what we have
written and shall write, we have striven
AMI shall strive to keep steadily before us
the star of truth. We would cherish no.
bie examples wherever we find them, be
it in the palace of the great, or the cot.
ttago of the lowly. 1t is only your raving
Democrat who curses the blessings which
"a Qneen nay diffuse, AS it is only YOUR
ianatlcal arlstocrat who repudiates the of
termg which n child Of the people brings
! TO the altar Of humanity. In the one il
mas e"S-na~S-a- -a-a..a;as-;,,A;na,a b,,rol e.,
The very shadow Of privilege; in tie otfr.
| er 1t has irculca;ed indiscriminate aversion
for the very breath Of the people. Hence
the one fies into fury as soon as the name
OF Queen is mentioned in terms of admira.
ton, or her lite considered as productive
OF good; and the other falls into bad
paroxysm of rage at the idea of one Of the
people indicating his divinely implanted
manhood, or calling upon his fellow man
to breast the oppressor who trihes with
his rights. .. ...
Both extremes proceed from passion
II Is only by steering between them tn at
the shore of wisdom can be reached
Through wisdom alone can we vindicat.
truth; through truth alone can we advance
the interests of humanity. Some may en-
deaVor, from ignorance, or envy, or mock
cry, or malignity, to cavil at absuriities
OF the institution. Others may revel with
saucY delight in defaming a woman, Just
because she has been raised by the laws OF
the land to the functions Of Queen. But
history will hereafter disperse these asper-
sions. When the swelling ties of freedom,
eIucation, and practical christianity, rous,
ing tho manhood of England to a nobler
sense of dignity and keener shame of ser.
Witty, shall have swept away. as some
day they must do, the old fedual and mon.
arcli"l institutions Of England, and left in
their stead noble Anglo Saxon Repub
lIcan structure, the name of Victoria will
by the most passionate enemy of ROYALTY
still be respected for the good qualities ol
the woman, and, by its most Indifferent
friends, for the chaste aureoIa of virtue
wni:h she has thrown around the throne