The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-09
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4 CHAPTER or TRIES Which Have
LetCTIuiI "a Great Events.

Lord BeGconsiieId's father was the
author OF a learned essay on history
which might have been enacted.
An equally curious volume might
be penned on tribes which have
determined great events. 1t was
but a trilc which gave Spain for so
many generations the lordship Of.
the new world, and enabled her by
the wealth which she derived from
that source to become the most
powerful nation in Europe. 1t is
well known hat Columbus, dispir-
tied 10y the ~refusals Which he met
at 50 many courts, dispatched his
borthcr Bartolomeoto ask aid from
Henry VII. Of England. But on
the way the messengerfell into the
hands o fpirates, and by the time
he reached London he was SO des-
titute he had to try and earn the
money to clothe himself in proper
style before he could be presented
at court. But by this time it was
too late. Even the fact that Ferdi-
nand and Isabella supplied the
funds to equip the EXPEDITION was
mainly due to the accident that
Juan Perez de Morchena, the
queens confessor, happened to DO
passing at the very moment when
the weary mariner was knocking at
the door Of the La Rabida monas-
terry to beg a little bread and water
for his boy Diego, and was struck
with the noble face Of the dusty
pedestrian, Had Bartolomco Co
lon reached London in time, had
Christoyal been at any chance d
little later or a little earlier at the
monastery door, the fate Of Europe
might have been changed and the
destiny ofthe Anglo-Saxon race al
tered. Three centuries later it
was again nearly reyolutionized,
for in 1905 the English held Buenos
Ayres, and it is no secret that Ma
polcon was almost persuaded to
abandon Europe as q field for his
ambition, and try what he could
accomplish in the way Of carving
out an empire among the dissatis-
fed provinces Of South America,
When citizen Bonaparte seemed lit
tlc likely to sit on the throne Of
Louis Capet, he was on the point
Of Offering his sword to the sultan,
as Ut a later period Won Moltko nc
tually did. 1t is curious now to
speculate what would have b9cn
the present state Of the Eastern
question had Napoleon carried his
intentions into effect, or surprising
that Moltko had remained in the
Turkish service whether the Dan
ISL war would have been fought, OF
{ Prussia's supremacy established at
Sadowa or Sedan.
The cropping ofLouis VII. 'schir
|, brought on three centuries of blood.
], shed. And a sarcastic remark OF
/, Frederick the Great on Elizabeth
Petrovna, Of Russia, aroused thai
virtuous empress TO take such q
vigornus part in the seven years
war that at one time Prussia seem
ed well nigh stricken unto death.
Even Cathrine II.-profoundlJ
suspicious Of Potsdam after the
"scandal about Queen Elizabeth
} carefully examined her husbands
correspondence before he conclud
ed an alliance with the royal lette.
writer. 1t is hardly forty year.
since Louis Philippe threatened
war against the Texan republic be
/ cause an irate citizen had shot thu
= hospassing pigs Of the French am
6 baasador. AS it was, he prevent
! ed the Lone Star sovereignty from
? floating their European loan, an,
] thus the king and the pigs combin
, cdhastoned the annexation ofTexa
/ to the United States. The DutcI
4 are said to have "jockeyed" Il
out of Malacca in exchange 10
Java, by representing on the map