The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1881-07-30
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getic queen, strove to restore her poor husband.
The king delighted in country scenes, there.
fore the queen delighted to leave the cares that
so lmperatively demanded her presence, AMI
dwell with HIM in the eXul,ant carol of the
woodland bird, and walk beside the moss en-
circled, laughing brook. The king was ex-
tremely fond of vocal music. To crafty this
artistic taste the kingdom was ransacked tor
singers. Believing that the silver melody OF
their voices might exercise the evil spirit that
haunted the steps Of the unhappy monarch,
the queen maintained and educated these
singers at her own expense. The king was a
devout observer of church forms, and a firm
believer IN the efficacy OF prayer; hence, by
request of the queen, IN the grey old cathe'
drals of historic towns, and the lowly churches
of village hamlets Henry's name mingled
with the morning matin and floa,ed upward
on the wings of the evening vespers. PioHs
mobiles were led through sympathy to under
take the long and toilsome journey to Jerusa'
lem, that at the tomb of crucifed Savior
they might plead with the Almighty that he
would touch with his own woodworking
hand the torpid mind of their ruler, rousng ii
TO newer, brighter life.
In the year 1854 the long-gathcring wrath
of the Duke of York found an expression, and
like a mountain stream breaking from its chain
and gathering new and terrific momentum IN
Its downward progress so it swept over Eng.
land. Queen Margaret had not degned TO
consult my Lord Richard in the choice of MN
listers; she had even had the impudence to
place Somerset at the head Of her cabinet with.
out his permission. Such an insult demanded
extreme measures and the nation soon learned
to its cost the measure of his righteous (?) IN.
dignaton. At the head of large army he APP
noara1 Of thn uoIn A ST A lbapS snpIinp IN tl "a
king the pleasant message that he had come
to save him from the false and corrupt Somer.
set, coupling with this the request that said
traitor be given into his hands. Gentle as
Henry was, there were moments when his soul
rose TO the height OF heroic resistance. To the
nsolent demand of the Duke of York, went
back the ringing, defiant answer: "The king
Will lose both his life and crown before he de.
livers up either the Duke of Somerset or the
m anest soldier IN his army to such demand
A battle ensued. The tide turned against the
ct md nd of Lancaster. The kings forces were
routed with great loss, and the Duke OF Som
crset was killed. On the evening of that dread
full day, utterly deserted by his cowardly, time
serving officers, enteebled by recent wound
from which the blood was streaming, half veil
cd by the melancholy twilight of the approach,
ing night, the king stood alone IN one of the
ships of the little town. His hand rested up
on the banner that had waved through the bat
tie smoke and III that hour he seemed The
tmour1tul yet grand and fitting embodiment ot
the hopes, mi,fortunvs and the final destiny OF
the House of Lancaster. The Duke of York
approached, knelt at his feet, and assured him
that now that the public enemy was dead,
there would be no further trouble.
Then" was the kings noble reply, "for
Gods sake go and stop the slaughter Of my
Subjects"
1t was done. Richard could well afford the
poor compliment of seeming TO obey his kings
commands while that king was in his hands
Margaret's neart had been torn by the con.
hicting claims of the hottest feelings which q
woman may know. She had been forced to
the dread alternative of either leaving her hus.
band, her crown, and her future to the care of
her generals, or exposing her child to the ten
der mcrCies of HIM who knew no mercy. Be
hevlng that Richard still respected the royal
person sufficiently to restrain him from any
act of violence towards his sovereign, and
talthless as to any compassion on his part to-
ward the future heir OF the throne, Margaret
had retired to Greenwich, and there in absorb
ing suspense, she waited for tidlngs from the
battlefield. When they came, and she knew
that the worst had really come, that all was
lost and her husband in the hands of the foe,
1t seemed as If the heart that had never quail
ed before the eye of man, and never shrank
before the storm of battle, had ceased its beat
ing; for hours the queen lay in dead supor
insenslble to all things of time and sense.
Richard had accomplished all things that
he wished, and largely.galned in power so he
released the king, and allowed HIM to rejoln
his wife A patched.up truce was the result of
this movement, and for a few more years Eng
land was permitted to indulge in a troubled,
broken dream of peace ere the curse of civil
war land Its scathing whitening touch upon
blighted nation.
(7'O be cOntinued)
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