The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-10

quite overcome. Oh, how l did feel for
my dearest precious husband at this
moment! Father, brother, friends,
country-all has he left, and all for me.
God grant that I may be the happy per-
son, the most happy person, to make
contented. What is in my power TO
make him happy will do"
THE FIRST YEAR OF MARRIAGE.
A very interesting chapter in this vol
nme is that which describes 'The First
Year of Marriage" The demeanor of
Prince Albert is thus alluded to:
"It must be admitted, however, that
constantly, unostentatiously, and per-
| Severingly as he now gave himself up
| to the discharge of his new duties, he
was exposed, almost during the whole
period of his lie in this country, to
much misconception and much misrep-
resentation. Not for that, however,
| did he for one moment relax in his
efforts, or allow his zeal TO flag, in
seeking to promote all that was for the
good of the British people. His actions
| might be misunderstood, his opinions
might be misrepresented (ot which
there was more than one notable in
stance)-[N Note blythe Queen: Especially
at the commencement of the Russian
warl-but, supported by his own con-
scious rectitude, he still pursued the
even tenor OF his way. Not a COM
| plant, not a murmur, ever escaped his
| lips; not a single hRsty expression did
| he ever indulge in, even towards those
who were most unjust to him. He ac
| cepted such injustice as the inevitable
| lot of one placed, as he was, in high
station, trusting surely to the coming
| of the time when his motives and
actions would be better understood
and better appreciated by his adopted
| country.
/ ;,I, En nj
acted was Ito use his own noble words }
ito sink his own individual existence
| in that of his wife, to aim at no power
| by himself or for himself, to shun all
ostentation-to assume no separate
responsibility before the public'-but
making his position entirely part of
| the Queens, continually and anXlOuSly
to watch every part of the public busi-
ness, in order 10 be able to advise or as
| sist her at any moment in any of the
multifarious and difficult questions
| brought before her-sometimes politi-
cal or social, or personal, as the natural
head of her family; superintendent of
her household, manager of her private
affairs, her sole confidential adviser in
politics., and only assistant in her com
munications with the officers OF the
| government"
THE PRINCE AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS.
at was not, however, for some time
that the position as described as above
| was established. For the first year or
two the Prince was not, except on rare
| occasions and by speciAlivitation, pres
ent at the interviews of the Queen with
her ministers. Note by tie Queen:
But this was not from any objection on
their part. Though taking, the Queen
says, great pains to inform himself
ABOUT everything" and though Lord
| Melbourne expressed much anxiety
that the Queen should tell and show
him everything connected with public
| affairs = He did not at this time
take much part in the transaction of
| business
"Nor were there wanting those who
would gladly have kept him perma-
nently estranged from it, and not only
so, but who would have denied him,
even in domestic circles, that authority
which in private families properly be-
| longs to the husband, and without
which, it may be added, there cannot
be true comfort or happiness in domes-
tic life. The Prince himself easily saw
the necessity of his asserting that
authority. In my home life" he writes
to Prince Lowenstein, in May, 1910, Il
am very happy and contented; but the
difficulty In filling my place with the
proper dignity is, that l am only the
husband, not the master in the house,"
THE PRINCE AND LORD MELBOURNE.
Fortunately, however, for the coun-
try, and still more fortunately for the
happiness of the royal couple them
selves, things did not long remain In
this condition. Thanks to the firmness,
but at the same time gentleness, with
which the Prince insisted on filling his
proper position as head of the family
thanks also to the clear Judgment and
right feeling of the Queen, as well as
her singulnrly honest and straightfor-
ward nature-but thanks, more than
all, to the mutual love and perfect con
tidence which bound the Queen and
Prince to each other, it WAS impossible
to keep up any separation or difference
of interests or duties between them.
To those who would urge upon the
Queen that, as sovereign, she must be
at the head of the house and family, as
well as of the state, and that her hus-
band was, after all, but one of her sub
jects, her Majesty would reply that she
had solemnly engaged at the altar to
obey as well as to love and honor
and this sacred obligation she could
consent neither to limit nor refine
away.
"From the first, too. the Queen, act
ing on the advice OF Lord Melbourne,
communicated all foreign dispatches
to the Prince. In August, lS4U, he
writes to his father: Victoria allows
me to take much part in foreign af-
fairs, and l think l have already done
some good. / always commit my
views 10 paper, and then communicate
them to Lord Melbourne. He seldom
answers me, but have often had the
satisfaction of seeing him act entirely
in accordance with what 1 have said
And again, in April, lS4l: All l can
say about my political position is, that
study the politics of the day with
great industry, and resolutely hold
myself aloof from all parties LT0rtfdhTe
mich Uon allen PdTteieH JTei zu hdLten.)
1 take active interest in all national in
stitutions and associations. l speak
quite openly with the ministers on all
subjects, so as to obtain information,
ness. . endeavor quietly to
be of as much use TO Victoria in her po-
sition as can.'
"Here we have the first announce
ment of that principle by which the
whole of his future life was guided, and
TO which many years later he gave the
noble expression already quoted, of
Sinking his Individual existence in
tina: of the Queen
"Slowly, but surely acting on that
principle, did he establish his position;
and so entirely WAS it recognized by the
Queen herself, SO unreServedly and
confidingly did she throw herself upon
ner husbands support, relying in all
questions OF difficulty on his Judgment,
and acting In all things by his advice,
that when suddenly bereayed of that
support, her sense ofthe loss which she
had sustained as Queen found express
sion in the pathetic words, that 1t
would now be, in fact, the beginning of
n new reigni"