The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-03-11


patlics, whether she joins the people OF
Westminster in lamenting their beloved
Dean, or gives assurance OF tendeiest
interest in the fate Of all OH board miss
ing ship-or, reaching beyond her own
people, telegraphs messages OF conao-
lence to the stricken wife of our dead
President, and DEGREES for her Whole
Court a week in mourning to testify
their kindred sorrow. The intense 10y
atty of the people is something Of which
We IN America, divided as we are INTO
party politics, can scarcely conceive. Tue
Queen belongs to 10 party. She IS the
Nations Sovereign, and sits upon the
Nations throne while party after party
gains supremacy, and in its turn falls to
make room for another. But she is be-
loved not only because she sits on King
Alfred's throne, and yields sceptre that
her family held for two thousand years,
but because of her grand, sweet, wo-
manly nature. So would say, surely, the
lowly cotta.crs around Ba]moral, with
whom she sits and chats i'll their humble
homes; SO would say the grateful in
valids by whose bedside their gracious
Queen reads to them the words of life,
from her English Bible, irradiating sun
slime and good cheer throughout their
poor dwelling.
The spirit winch pervades tho Royal
Family, distinguishes, largely, the no.
bility. Conscious OF the responsibilities
involved in their high position, they
strive to discharge faithfully the duties
resting upon them. was struck with
the reply Of DR.. S, Of whom Hal in
CURED, teasingly, how he liked the idea
Of having men here occupying II station
higher than that to which he could as
pire 7" eve are proud Of our nobility,
Sir" he rejoined, "becanse, as Il rule,
they are men worthy Of our respect-not
because they carry a title or wear
SOiOAOU. IVA S-asAhliSj oIS''N'S
his time in self qualification, merely, and
no one regards him; the Duke OF -,
recognizing the grave responsibility his
rank confers, dovotes himself to the in
terests of his people and of the country,
and we think Of him with honest adj
mration and PRIDE" Surely there Is no
servile spirit-no bind and groveling
worship of aristocracy in this; not more
than we would for any public mau i'll our
own land, made illustrious by his
talents and virtues.
No one can walk through the splendid
Houses Of Parliament without being pro-
fondly impressed. 1t is not that the
richness and magniicence of tho vast
Gothic structure awe the beholder; it is
not the recollection that here convcncs
the great Assembly that rules the DIES
TIMES of Il mighty nation /; it is not even
the thrilling historical associations Of
Westminster Hall, founded by VIM.
Rufus, and connected with SO many
scenes that stand out in bold relief Oh
the pages of England's story. 1t is, that
everywhere, in stately hall and solemn
corridor, painting and sculpture give
voice to a glorious past and plead for y
no less illustrious future. We stand
before Lord Russell as he turns away
from his gentle and beautiful wife, to be
led to execution, while fierce, mailed men
whose eyes were never made to shed u
tear" break down in weak babyish sobs;
and remember how Lord Macaulay writes
that he "thinks with more pleasure Of
Lord R1ssel's saying, when he had bid
farewell to his wife, that "the bitterness
Of death was now. past, than OF the
Elder Brntus stcrn]y condemning his son
to DEATH" All honor to the race Will:
whom the power Of Love is strong! We
pass on, and look upon the Iron Duke
meeting Butcher after the battle of
Waterloo, while. dying soldiers greet
him eagerly, and yield up their lives " 18th
triumphant joy. We turn, and see Lord
Nelson at Trafa! gar sinking under the
| murderous cannon ball, and expiring at
| the moment of victory; while the signal
| slate near by bears that last message
destined to ring out forever through the
| years: England expects every man 70
| Il hio duty, - Nofj
alone, apart from all the rest, enough to
fire ones blood Can men be dull and
sluggish when the bright deeds Of thei,
dead heroes thus spur them on to grand
achievements Were i Brton, il seems
to mo l would count my life as nothing
weighed in the scale against England't
glory and Ensland's good. AS far as
have been able to Judge, it is indeed thus
with Engishmen There arc some wht
would have us think that England ha!
reached the highest point Of all hel
greatness, and hastes now to her setting.
1t is not so. The heart of the people j:
true and sonnd to the core. They arr
imbned now, as ever, with an intense
national pride, and i love Of countr,
that is dominant passion. Let but th
march Of events draw forth their iaten
spirit, and yon will see many q patrio
hero come to the front, and many a con,
mon soldier shoulder his musket, glat
to die for Enn,a IDS veal
The srandest monument in all Londo,
is st. Paul's Cathedral. | have scen
now, the most famous churches of til
world, but | have found nothing tha
inpresses me SO profoundly. st. Peters