The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-02-03
STATESMANSHIP.
4 DRAMA Of the Second Century of the
American Republic.

DRAMA Of the Second Century of tn
American Republic.
BY Il. A. HASTE.
Royal Palace at Honolulu
Bfornt:-
Most gracious Queen, since
BY thy wondrOus goodness thou
DOSt cOndescend to give me
Audience. | fain would tell thee
All my master knows;
For by him am sent
To help thee in thy woes.
Queen Lilioukaiani:-
Proceed thou noble Georgian,
have heard much of thee,
And much more would know;
For | am deeply moved by the
Sympathy that rumor
Tells me is felt for me
BY all the noble people of your land.
What says your master:
Blount:-
Your Majesty! my master. the
President, much deplores
That from your ancient throne
The Yankee rabble should have cast you
down;
And that your majesty no hardship feel
Here at thy feet a Southron proud kneel
. And by instruction from the government
| ask to know what best would
/ Please your highnCss:
j Queen
I Well, noble BlOunt. I'll tell thee
! But for those mis- thief brewing rebels,
! | would now have my own crown
| Upon my ebon brow;
| And that vile constitution would be
Scattered TO the winds of the occident.
| Oh, but I'd like TO place my foot
! Upon their traitorOus necks;
/ My weight, methnks, would clog their
windpipes.
! Tell your noble master that the Queen
/ Wants once more to her throne to be restored
/ We'd like a guard of Yankee seamen,
! We'd turn them to a royal guard.
] Much do | long for those blue coated soldiers,
Blount:-
/ Fair Queen, the power to use
| The forces of our government rests not
! With me. though much | moved might be-
| A greater has to do it.
Queen
Then send that greater. Let
No time be wasted
For the rebels gain in strength continually,
BIount:-
Farewell Oh, Queen, unto my noble
Master | will tell just what you want
And what will please you we'll.
Blount, Ito himselD:-
| Those stars and stripes
That wave DER yonder DOME
Quick from their lofty station
Must come down,
! can do it safely, and
We GeOrgians like them not.
[Room in Washington
The President holding Blount's reporO;-
The Queens been wronged!
This double crime of treason
And helpless womanhoOd cast down,
Oh, Gresham. 1t wounds my heart
1t chokes my utterance to see
This unavenged. this shameless insult
To Queen. deposed. dethroned.
She melts to tears. for
Though she's Queen, she's woman. Walter
By all the Honolulu Gods, swear,
Her cause is mine,
My noble spirit will not brook
Such wrong to woman.
She's been wronged, wRONGED WRONGEDr
III be her knight, I'll right it;
There's the noble stand take;
HunOr'S in me and cannot help it,
lis well to be both brave and chivalrous,
And am both
Gresham
You are, indeed. for none but
You had dared to put me in
The harness OF Jim Blaine.
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And that, methinls, he nc'cr will do again,
President
Marked you. Walter, how
The rabble sOutS and mouths
About my policy OF state:
Grcsham:-
| marked. Twas ever thus;
The PlcbeanS growl and grumbte,
But the AutOcratiC Caesar OF
4 true nobility will cove them.
The star of destiny shines in you.
1t seldom hath occurred when
This old world bore equal like to thee
PRESIDENT
Plain spoken Gresham; thy visions keen,
Those things are hid indeed
Which thou'st not seen.
Sometimes lose myself among
The names Of earh'S greatest.
My talents do indeed surprise myself;
My party takes the counsels that | give,
My congress moves itself within the plane
To which | did appoint it,
Great things, by minds as great are easy done
But here comes Willis; now wen feel
The thIill ofcomfort that true friends doth bring