Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-05-18

Outline of Governmental Nicissitudes in
the Nineteenth Century-The Star, SUI
pernaIly Beautiful, that Sank in Blood
-Scorning Constitutional Reasons-The
Revelation of Lee and the Martyrdom
of Davfs-Love of the Dead.
Correspondence of the Charlotte Observer:
In less than eight years the nine
teenth century will have receded
into the miIleniums of the past.
The chronologles of the century
now so hoary are vital with revolus
tions and periods Of perturbation in
human governments.
In France, barring the throwning
and deposing of Bourbon, or Or
leanist, two separate Napoleonic
dynasties perished when each of two
Napoleons was bareft of throne,
crowL and sceptre; while the subse-
quency-a repubLic-lingers un-
steadily and unassuringly. Greece,
renouncing the authority Of the
Sultan of the palace oyerhanging
the tides of the Golden Horn, has
broken from the dominion of the
Turk, and the restoration of soyer-
eign state is marked before the
ruins of the Parthenon and above
the sepulchers of perished art.
Spain, twisting from the throes Of
revolution to confront with anguish
the menace Of anarchy, has alter
mated from confusions Of republic to
tras esties Of feeble, though regal
rule. Hope of the restoration of the
ancient independence of Hungary
no longer thrills the breast of the
exile; and the Hungarian arm, with
cred and helpless, remains shackled
to the robust limb of the Austrian
giant. Mexico, tossed by upheavals
Of ihsurrection through mockerles
Of government stretching behind the
throne of Maximilliad, now advenx
lures new republic, below the Rio
Grande; while, northward, expand
ing plains and fertile valleys, do
main of her ancient realm, are the
conquests Of the greater North
American Republic. Sardinia sent
forth a regnant prince, who, with
soldiery entering and occupying the
Eternal City, reared a secular power
against the sacred walls Of St.
Peters; working civic miracles be-
fore the porticoes of the VATICAN,
despite the scorn and protest of
pope, cardinal. priest and monk.
The absorption ofGermanStates into
the federation of empire is distings
uished by the imperial triumph of
William, the elder, whose veins
transmitted, through princely son,
the blood IF Germanic kings to the
reigning scion, William the younger.
Yet in the chronologies of rule
and rulership, during the Nineteenth
Century, there is an epoch more
startling than any event of vicissi-
tude untold or outlined:
At point, one decade this side
the midway line of the century,
there rose, supernally beautiful and
transcendently glorious, the whitest
star of empire-the star of Confed-
eracy. Above the birth of govern
ment, whose Messiahship was indie
psndency and liberty. this star shone
with beauty so inefable that the
wise men of all nations, with sense
of admiration and emotion of solici-
tude, marked the course of its dess
tiny. But the orb so peerlessly
afnsh, sinking through mists of
ashes, from above scene of desola-
ton, passed from the armament of a
dissolving nation and swept into a
sea Of blood.
When I contemplate the Southern
Confederacy; the concert of its sew
eral Commonwealth in the scheme
and fruition of confederation. the
utilization of muniments, the pro-
vision of munitions; the chiyalries of
its courage; the achievement of VIC
tories, the renewed confidence follow
ing defeats; its solemn dissolution
and pious submission, l scorn all
arguments based on constitutional
reasons to prove, or disprove, the au-
thority of its existence among the
nations of the earth. None need
question the right to do, or to leave
i Fundohe, since the poil to history is
= so inestimable as the revelation Of
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