The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-05-02
SIR WALTER RALEIGH.
BY GAsKELL.

Ila46lsA IGSaIlS Olo VI bhO SAaGNS
= periods of English his!ory-a perio
when the virgin queen welded wit
masculine judgment and power, III
scepter of her ancestors and male t.
English name respected wheTeye
known. Il was the beginning OF TIA
long period of naval superiority after
wards acquired by her herces-wher
3 Howard and Hawkins and Drake
! made her name feared even 10 the
antipodes and brought the wealth oil
the galleons of Spain TO enrich the
Golfers of England. 1t was the last
expiring blaze of chiyalry, when in
euDhoDistic verbosity, gallant men
uttered in sOn0rous phrases the virtues
and beauties of the ladies. The days
LOT the noble and Chivalric Sidney,
who mortally wounded at the battle
OF Zutphen yielded to the common
soldier the drink OF water be had
himself called ioT, because his me
cessities were greater than his own"
When rare Ben johnson and Beau
mont and Fletcher wrote their works,
and Shakespeare so truthiully por-
trayed the different orders OF men,
their loves. their passions aud their
crimes. The fires OF Smiih6eld,
lighted by Bloody Mary" to Gveuge
her insulted religion and her mothers
wrongs, had scarcely died away; nor
had the queen, Elizabeth, forgotten
the dangers she had incurred, when
as Protestant princess, tie jesui.s
sought 10 involve her in pretended
plots 10 cause her destruction and
secure a Catholic succession 10 the
| throne. The time when she Span
lard, the Pope and the devil. were
| put IN the same category together |
and were equally hated a. opposed. |
Sir Walter Raleigh was born in
D5vOnshiTe in The year Ctgrace, 1862. |
His father was p0or and occupant OF |
a small farm near Hayes, but |
gentleman Of ancient family. His !
mother was a ChsmpeTnOn, a |
proud, Norman family. and was the |
widow OF Sir Ohio Gilbert, before |
married to Mr.. Raleigh, and already |
had three SONS, John, Humphrey and
Adrian, who all acquired the hCnors
of knighthood; and, the two latter
gere rem Rrkable men Of their time.
II it Is true, as it is often said, great
meD have great mothers, she must
cave been more than usually gifted,
for by two husbands she bore sons
lOremOst among the men Of their day.
When young, Walter Raleigh was
cent to Oriel College, Oxford, but he
vas of restless. stirring nature and
The books be read of Spanish discovery
and conquest in the new world were
his delight and their expressions and
cruelties were his deIestation and
cOl0red his whole future life. He
hated the Spanisrd with a deep, re-
liRiOus fervor and like most English
men of his day, was stern opposer
OF Catholicism. At Is years OF age
ne joined his cousin Henry Champer-
non and his hundred gentlemen
volunteers, who went to aid the
struggling Hugenots of France and
fought IN the came cause as the noble
Coligng, vallisntly in defense of Pro- 1
testsntIsm. He heard the shrieks of {
St Bartholomew that heralded Catho-
lie cruelty and kingly treschery. In
the Netherlands be fought under the
gallant Norris 10 the great struggle {
for religious freedom maintained by '
William of Orange with the despctism
of Philip of Spain, that gloomy
tyrant who would rather rule over a
desert, than over heretic5." Whilst
there he read the voyage of Columbus,
the conquests of Cortes in Mexico |
and of Pizarro in Peru, ard, most
likely, the voyage to Verazzano; be- l
came fred with the desire to extend :
English power over q portion of the
new world. English merchantmen j
were answered by shot and shell. |
''Both policy and religion forbid {
Christians to trade with heretics 3" {
Lutheran devils and enemies OF {
God," were what Englishmen were
called by Catholics in those days.
TreacheTy was lawful in dealing with {
them. "No faith need be kept with i
heretiCs." Such wrongs had reused
English hearts. What right had the i
Pope of Rome to give those lands to s
the Spaniards? To acknowledge this
right was to say he had also right to !
depose their queen, Elizabeth, and /
place some one else to rule over them;
as he afterwards did, when he secretly {
favored her assassination and the
raising of Mary Queen of Scots to the {
English throne. But the day for such
things in England had passed away 6
Queen Elizabeth was too much loved {
aud too firmly seated in the affections 6
of her people, for even William the {
Conqueror, to have succeeded at such
a time. 1t was death gIapple (
between Catholicism and Protestant
ism and the queen was the exponent {
OF a principle, and defense of her ;
cause was test of patriotism ana
loyalty. ,
All these thoughts filed young
RRleigh's mind, had been the theme
for all classes of society, and when be
set to work learning the soldering
trade he learned it thoroughly, as
much so as any man of his day. Five
years he was in France, marching
and fighting, besieging towns and
castles and hunting the enemy among
the caves and mountains of LaDgue-
doc; was at the retreat at Moncontour (
and was at the death of Condo.
Afterwards in the Netherlands, assist
ing the Prince of Orange in his
struggle with the giant power of
Spain. On Lsmmas day, 1873, he
was with the valiant English and
Scotch. who came up late. wesried
and well nigh worn out with their
rapid march and the heat of the day
and throBing of their armor and
most of their clothing, met the bril-
liant and boastful Don John of Aus.
tria and his Spaniards, the best
trained infantry OF Europe, and de-
feated them, In s manner before IN
known 10 their experience, and so
edectually, that the young conqueror
died of shame and chagrin, two
months afterwards.
We find him the next gear engaged
with his uterine brother, Sir Humph-
rey Gilbert, in voyage of discovery
to America, bat they were unsueess-
full. a desperate battle with the
6panisrds sent them home again With
the loss OF ship and their best cap
tain, Morgan. Fooled in this venture
and activity being necessity With
him. he is off 10 unfortunate ireland, |