Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1868-05-08

and the dead is gazed upon by the living.
''Thank God for this" muttered the
Duchess. ''You are dead dead dead !!
You cannot now terrify me. Your eyes are
cold. Where now is their fire ? Who now
will obey your behests Who now viii
cover before you ? I can deem every CD
stacle in my path as mere trife, easily
overcome. [ will gain wealth, and friends,
and distinction, and power. My ambition
will be satisfied" With these words she
covered the inanimate visage, and more
like spright than human being. glided
from the chamber. Soon, and all England
was convulsed with joy. The Princess
Ammo assembled the throne, and became the
good Queen Anne. The Tories participa-
ted, perhaps from policy the Wings, from
evident success. From Chevoit Hills to
Lands End, if not from Dunnet Head to
Port Patrick, the name of Anne was glori-
fed, and her enforcement was proclaimed
amid the booming of cannon, and the &C
carnations Of millions. She was the
daughter Of James the Catholic, but she
was not a Catholic. She was of the House
Of Stuart, that pleased the Tories she was
a Protestant that pleased the Wings. Be-
meath all this seeming acquiescence ran
something deeper still. That same unan-
unity of feeling was not SO enthusiastically
displayed in Scotland. How could the
Tories there love the Wings? The ghosts
of their murdered fathers would arise from
their bloody graves and cry out, "For
shame for shame !" However, the fact
that Anne was Stuart tended to keep in
subsection their aroused nature. They saw
one CLEAN of hope-the ejectment of the
kingdom. The fact of her opposition to
hn of Of md
Spain secured in some degree the friend
ship of the Wings. The Tories labored
sedulously to supplant them, to prejudice
the Queen, and, if possible, convert her.
Between these two rival parties her anna
bic disposition became very often ruffled,
and, as the spectator has written, her
chaste presence exercised no influence "to
correct the vices, the follies, the ignorance
which too generally prevailed at the com
mencement of the eighteenth century -
and to promote "virtue and knowledge,
and recommend whatsoever may be either
useful or ornamental to society,"" They
knew we'll, and they felt it, that : "Our
passions play the tyrants I'D our breasts, &"
but they did not profit by any example to
curb them, and learn from the follies of the
past that wisdom which, when gained, is
ever the ripest aud brightest.
The Queen was at heart in favor of the
Tory vieuS, and to them she lent an eager
ear. Her favorite project was to perpetu-
ate the succession of her house. To attempt
this she must place authority in the hands
of her friends, and her friends were IN
questionably the Tories. Her charming
favorite was not ignorant of the change.
She portrayed in vivid colors the falsity,
or rather tickleness of the Scotch, who,
she naively limited, merely sought pre-
text to have her dethroned. She depicted
in a vehement style the dark designs of
Harley and Bolingbroke thought Sir
Robert Walpole a knave, and that she
ought to detach herself from "the princi-
Piles of the Tories" She eulogized the &C.
tions of Godolphin and his confederates
The Duke of Marlborough needed not her
poor language to define his position. His
deeds had made England great and glori-
ready to defend his sovereign. "Toward
the close of her life, the injudicious prose-
cution of Sacheverell by Lord Godolphin
afforded her (the Queen) all opportunity OF
emancipatin herself from their control, OF
which she readily availed herself and in
ITO the Wings were dismissed, and Harley,
afterward Earl Of Oxford, was appointed
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord
High Treasurer. The Duchess saw very
plainly that her power was gone. The
Queen owed much, perhaps, to her hus
band, the handsome EngtiShnnua, Int more
to her own family-the exiled Stualts. The
artful Duchess retired from the royal pre-
sence, saying: "Sweet dreams, my Queen"
Anne, tortured mentally and bodily, court
ed sleep, and endeavored to Danish the
many harassing thoughts that troubled the
repose of her mind. Sleep came not. The
tired boor snored loudly in his miserable
hovel, forgetful alike of his poverty and the
morrow's labor. But here the descendant
of house that sat on throne for four
hundred gears, rolled restlessly about on her
elder bed, craving a similar plttance Of
Sc tired natures sweet restOrer." Her mind
wandered. she has made of England and
Scotland a Great Britain. - the greatest act
of her life. She has fixed price on the
head of her own father,-the most unnatu-
raj deed of her life. Is it to be wondered
then that she could find no rest Sleep
came, but not with it those street. Dreams
Her children, rose-buds stricken from the
stem of life, passed before her. away into
the silent gloomy womb Of the grave,-a
punishment for that great sin. She saw
them in vision. What vision She saw
their grandfather hunted down, decried
by the very people about her, her friends
The Duchess told her husband all. Her
suspicious were just. The overthrow of
the Wings was inevitable, come when come
it may. The Duke spoke: 1.-The Queen
may attempt the destruction of the Wings,
and may make the effort to have the pro-
figate son of James the Second succeed
her, but, mark me !! such a thing will never
happen, The adherents OF George are the
nation. She may drive them from office,
from court, but sure as [ am Marlbo
rough SO sure will they in their turn rise in
their might, and plant frmer and deeper
into the national soil the standard of our
common constitution. The people will
meet the issue openly and fairly, and in
their indignation hurl those miscreants
into that unfathomable pit which they have
been nov. so long digging. The will of the
people must be respected, and it will be re-
spected, or know not how to use this. "
drawing his sword.
The climax of party spirit was nigh, and
in the vortex of human passion seemed TO
engulf everything, few felt inclined to de-
bate the question of English rule, or by
whom it was ruled. One thing is certain,
that the British law is for Billions good, but
for dependent people bad. It is not
paradox, but a general truth not an asser-