Sauk Rapids frontierman. [volume] (Sauk Rapids, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1860, 1857-09-24

1by all the eloquence Of the entire pro
! fession.
| THE DAYS OF QUEEN MARY.
| Read the following paragraphs froH
| Blackwood, and say, ifyou can, that the
world has not advanced in morals and
intelligence
| To give only one or two instances o1
the manners and ideas Of the age IN
which Queen Mary's lot was cast. Il
i generally known that Henry vii pui
seventy two thousand persons. Of a! re-
ligious pursuasions, to death on the
scaffold, during his single reign; but It is
equally well known that his daughter
Elizabeth had an array Of three hundred
heads Of persons, convicted Of high
treason, placed on London bridge, in
cluding those Of her cousin and friend,
Norfolk, and her fayor;te, romantic low
err, Essex and, SO far fom being shock
ed at the ghastly array, she took the
foreign ambassador to see It, ID order 70
show how sswe serve traitors in Eng
land Protestant historians have re-
counted, with just Indignation, that the
bloody Mary cast two hundred and for
ly men, women, and children into the
flames during her breif and attrocious
reign; but they have not equally prom
inentlv brought forward, that a greater
number of priests and Catholic partisans
were, by her Protestant succession, se-
E,ccretl faeked to the utmost limits which
the human frame can endure, in that aw-
fuI sof human agony y,the Tower Of
London.
After the massacre Of St. Bartholo-
new, the ladies' Of the court went out to
examine long rows Of the bodies Of the
@Huguenot cavaliers who had been slain
during the tumult, and curiously turning
them over, when half-stripred or their
garments, said to each other, This
must have been charming lover; that
was not worth looking at. 6
And when the frantic assassin, Ra-
villiac, was brought out into the square
nf Louvre. to undergo during four hours
the most frightful tortures which human
ingenuity or malignity could devise, all
the ladies ofthe port of Paris assembled
to witness the spectacle; and as high
prices were given for the best places on
the street leading to st Paul's, as on
the occasion when the FIRST ard noblest
Of Britain attended her greatest hero to
his last resting place
It's, perhaps, the most difficult thing,
ia surveying the annals Of the past, to
bring ourselves to conceive how human AZ
beings could, IN any age, under any
circumstances, have been brought 10
| lend themselves to such barbarities ~
But nothing IS more certain than that
! the greatest and best did so. They
| deemed TINT they we're doing God ser ser
vice when so engaged. Witness s.,
/ Thomas Moore flogging ! prisoner with
his own hands, III his garden, to con.
! vert him from heresy. IL We alss wise
and INST, we will Judge of those who
li.yed III those savage times according e
1.-The measure Of the ideas with whict
Ithey were surrounded, and mt our own
and reflect with deeper thankfu hess on
onr happier LOT, when subjects are no
called to undergo ii such SACRIFICES N
their duty to their sovereign and slil
queen on thu throne can exhibit 81. lhel
] PIantagenet forefathers, and the grace'
Of her Stuart, without being exposed y
the terrible trials which either under
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