Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-12-31
,ndent Pape1. Devoted

(, SOUIsH CAROLINA
ShnF9h Ses, bgsTRs sha liked gs5E much e
she goes often to dissenting ohnrches
when of Balmoral. Her fayorite and
high-prized friend is the admirable
Dean Stanley, whose liberality is almost
working schism in the English church.,
and happened to hear her attacked ali
st. Nary's church, Oxford, the. very
stronghold off English orthodox High
Churoh sentiment, for signing the Irish
Church Disabih Bill.
"She has MO right TO break her oath,
said the brafe preacher. "She has
sworn to be tbe defender of the faith
IN these three Kingdoms, and he quoted
that ferooious text about the curse on
"the bloody house Of Saul !" who broke
his oath and slew the Gideonites.
But, although there this is freedom
OF thought aud freedom of speech in
English Pulpits, and in the mouth of
Sir Charles Dixie and the like. they
would all dieafor,stheir queen. They
could not pray. loud enough, sing high
enough, or watch with sufficient pa.
tience for the Prince of Wales recovery:
they stood, thousands of them, to SEQ
the Queen ride=bysto st. Paupe to offer
up her thanksgiyingsfor her sons re-
recovery, and, / dare say, nv brave
preacher of st. eAfafy's, Oxford, threw
up his shovel. hat higher tnan the rest.
and forgot all about the bloody house
of Saul.
And, in this unending devotion to the
royal family, in
THIS CURIOUS LOYALTY,
lie the glory and safety of England. ]
shall believe until ! see it that radical
ism will succeed in England. The PEN
dulum will swing, of course, and there
will be dissatisfaction. There are gi-
gantic evils Of overcrowding and con-.
centration of landed property; no doubt
those can be 5remedied by emigration
and just laws. But you can never knock
down this pyramid which they have
built. unless you change the body and.
blood of an sEnglishman. The little
girl on her way to church stops and
courtesies to stheNiadies at the great
house, and she is much better little
girl for 90 doing. The peasant takes off
his hat to the squire. and j do not think,
ne is less respectable man for that act
OF breeding. The whole people bow
down and cheer when their queen and i
her children drive by and every one
Wales.
The queen has always been yery
good friend to this country. She took
pains to express that sentiment to Mr..
Motley very plainly before he wasI
our minister and almost the last NOT
of good Prince Albert was one of
frlendliness to our country during cur
civil wlr. S-ss ~ ~
Her letter to our president, when she
commended the prince of Wales to him,
was curious document. It commenced,
"My very good friend"-and Lord
Honghton, who knows all the gossip,
said that the titlesof that letter had
caused the cabinet three sleepless
nights. There were no precedents for
addressing president. They could
have written to the Imam of Muscat. or
the Kahn of Tartary with greater ease.
Her reception of Miss Grant was cor
dial and friendly. She intended to be
stately, and such as she would have
given to princess, but the good sense
and simplicity of the young American
girl forbade that Perhaps neither of
the two imagined then that the daueh-
ter of our president was to become q
loyal subject of her mnj jesty, as her mar.
riage has since made her.
On the whole, looking closely Mt the
private character Of Queen Victoria, as
derived from conversatioa with some
who knew her best, rom her books, and
from all we sean see of her life, it is q
character greatly to be respected. It
is not an unusually great character, like
Prince Albart's, not q wonderfully mas
culine mind, like that of Queen Eliza.
beth. She is not Semiramis, nor
Ienobia. She has not the charm of the |
latter nor the genius of the former, and
yet sho has been q better queen for Eng
land of to-day than either would have
been. 1t was onceealid wisely of mon.
archs that the world must thank them
if they escape being great monsters.
"That great white light which shines
upon q throne" is hard light tc live in.
Had Queen Victoria been n great genius
and n great beauty she might have
ruined Englaul.R=A too pronounced
personality ip q a,moparch, especially n
female one, Is TO be regretted. The
Empress Eugenie improved the dress
of the world,~butit is to he feared she
did it at the expense of France.
The queen'has suited the eminently
home loving genius'of healthy England.
They like to rend that she walked yes.
terday on the AtaFr9ce with sthe Prince
Leopold; the day before with the PIN
cess Beatrice, who, by the way, is the
prettiest Of her daughters.
Her speckless morality is the highest
jewel in her crown; that and her un-
doubted love for England, her devotion
to her husband, living and dead, and her
love for her children, and her faithful
devotion to her kindred and old frisnaa