Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24
QUEEN VICTORIA

Today our cousin Victoria begins
her seyenty-third year of this, our
mortal life, and draws nigh unto the
fifty-third Of her reign.
The story Of her life and reign is
already old; for the eyes of the world
have been steadfastly fixed on her
through all her days. a queen, in
deed has Victoria been, and she was
literally born to be a queen, for it
became apparent before her fathers
marriage that there was likely to be a
dearth of HanOverian heirs to the
throne, and his marriage was to avert
that contingency. Perhaps it was
chance or luck; perhaps fate, but,
anyway, good fortune was made mani
fest early in her career, as If the
guardian angels which sang "Rule
Britannia" when the tight little island,
by Heavens command, arose from out
the azure main, had come down
through the ages to attend her earliest
breath, and wait increasingly upon all
her steps TO this good day.
The political and economic history
of VictOria's happy reign is too vast
for more than mere mention, but it
seems to be within the bounds of rea-
son to say that its equal has not been
seen upon the earth, in beneticent adj
vancement Of science, material
wealth, freedom and diffusion of COM
forts at home, and in the spread Of
civilization around the world; and
where civilization has met with dark
ness so dense that the light Of her
morning could not break and pierce
the shade, it still has made life more
tolerable there and given hope for the
| future.
The most obtuse Of our readers will
not fail to see that by this we mean to
| show that these things are mainly due
to the genius of the English people for
exploring and colonizing; we might
make a wider statement that it is due
to that spirit in the Aryan race, but
which the Englishman's circum'
stances have develoded more steadily
and constantly than those about his
continental kin have done for them.
The queen, to the British man, is I
sacred. incarnate tradition; the living
embodiment Of that freedom which o.
old sat on the heighth ''the thunder'
breaking at her feet" For him she is
as a humble writer has well said
, purity, charity, the keeper of tn,
keys of whatsoever is held precious b,
, men. And so mysteriously blended
are mans feelings and affections tina
, reverence and respect are almost sur,
= to beget affectiOn-far more thai
I mere affection to engender reverence
and respect. Therefore the queen
! striving for him her best, as he thinks
bound by the institutions, of whicl
she is the outward visible sign, iron
: doing harm, and driven by them t
e do good, becomes, to her countrymen
S an object Of personal affection whicl
. we, of her great kinsman's dOmai
t with our shifting of presidents, ca
h but with difficulty comprehend.
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Of royalty and nobility, but Sc
{ dom pause to reflect the dee
It feeling of which they are bu
!; imperfectly the outward expression
IS although we have long, long passe
Is that stage Of feeling when hatred {
\, British things was COMPOUNDED wit
n patriotism.
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