The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-06-25

CoIeridge. our De Quincy. our Join
Milton. our John Wesley. our John
Knox. our Thonras Chalmers. our Bish-
op Charnock. u LatiTner. our Ridley.
our Walter Scott, our Doufel
our Robert EmuleT. our Hayefuck. our
Henry Lawrence. our William E Glad
stone. our Queen Victoria Long live
the daughter OF h Duchess of Kent.
LONG REIGN.
Again. this International occasion
impresses me with the fact that NO.
mar is competent for political govern
nrent when God calls her TO 1t. Great
fears have been experienced in this
country that woman would get the
right of suffrage. and as a consequence
after awhile woman might get into
congressional chair and perhaps after
awhile reach the chief magistraCy.
Awful. Well. better quiet your per
~turbations, as YOU hook across the sea
in this anniversary time. and behold a
woman who Ior sixty years has ruled
over the miGhtiest empire Of all time
and ule We'll. In approval OF her
government the hands OF all nations
are clapping. the flags OF all nations
waving. the batteries of all nations
booming. Look here, Men have not
made such a wonderful success Of gov
that they need be afraid that
woman should ever take a turn at
power.
The fact is thai men have made a
bad mess of il. The most damnably
corrupt thing on earth is American
politics after men a had ii all their
own way in this country for l2l years.
Other things being equal-for there are
fools among women as we'll as among
men-I say other things being equal.
woman has generally a keener sense of
what is right and what is wrong than
has man-has naturally more faith in
God and knows better how TO make
self sacrifices and would more boldly
act against intemperance and the So
cial evil. and worse things might come
to this country than a supreme court
room and a senate and a house
of representatives in which womanly
voices were sometimes heard. We men
had better drop some of the strut out
of our porn gait and with a little
less of SuperciliouSnesS thrust the
thumbs into the sleeves of our vests
and be less apprehenSive of the other
sex, who seem to be the Lords favor
ties from the fact hat he has made
more of them. If woman had possess
ed an influential and controlling vote
on Capitol hill at Washington and in
the English parliament. do you think
NN> 49, " oiihA ciiA iiitA bNl liza
tons of the earth could have gone on
until this time with the b~utcheries in
Armenia and Cuba? No. the Christian
nations would have gone forth with
bread and medicine and bandages and
military relief until Abdul Hamid
would have had no throne to sit on. and
Weyler. the commanding assassin in
Cuba, WOuld have been thrust into a
prison as DARK as that in which they
| m lr1arpl nr Rniz nm M advocate
for female suffrag pc, and ! do not know
whether it would be best to have it.
but / point you To the queen of Great
Britain n the nation over which she
rules as proof that woman may he poll
itically dominant and prosperity reign.
God save the queen. whether now on
the throne in buckingham palace or in
some time to come in American White
! House.
And now T pray God that day after
tomorrow the uncertain skies Of Eng
! land, SO economic Of sunshine. may
pour golden light upon all the scene,
and that since the day when in West
minister abbey the girlish queen took
in one hand the Scepter and i'm the other
the orb of empire there may ave been
no day so happy as that one in which
she shall this week receive the plaudits
Of Christendom. May she he strength
med in her aged body to ride the
whirlwind of national excitement. and
her failing vision he illumined with
bright memories of the past and
brighter visions of the future, and
when she quits the throne Of earth
may she la a throne in heaven. and
as the doors of the eternal palace are
swung open may the question Of the
text sound in her enraptured ears.
What wilt thou. Queen Esther"
ANOTHER CORONATION.
But as all Of us will be denied attend.
ance on that siXtieth anniversary coro-
nation / invite you not to the anniver
sary of a coronation, v u to a corona
ton itself-aye, to two coronations
Brought UP as we are, to love as no
other form of government that which
is republican and democratic, We. liv-
ing on this side of the sea, cannot 50
easily as those living on the other sid
of the sea appreciate the two corona.
tons to Which all UP and down the Ri.
bic you and 1 are urgently invited
Some of you have such morbid ideas Of
religion hat you think of it as going
down into q dark cellar, or out on q
barren common, or as a Negotiation
when, SO far from a dark cellar, it is
a palace, and instead of a barren com
mon 1T is a garden, atOSs with tbs
brightest fountains that We're ever rain.
bowed, and instead of fagellation it i:
coronation, but q coronation utterly
eclipsing the one whose sixtieth ami.
verSary is now being celebrated. 1t was
a great day when David. the little king
who was large enough to thrash Go.
liatii, trOk the crown at Rabbath-s
crown weighing a talent of gold and
encircled with precious stones-and the
people shouted, Long live the king!'
1t was a great day when Petrarch, sur.
rounded by twelve patrician youths
clothed in scarlet, received from a sen.
ator h laurel crown, and the peopl,
shouted, Long live the poet"
1t was a great day When lark An.
tony put upon Caesar the mighties
tiara of all the earth, and in honor o.
divine authority Caesar had it place
afterward on the head of the statue
of Jupiter Olympus. 1t was a grea'
day which the greatest of Frenchmer
took the diadem of Charlmagne and pul
it On his own brow. 1t was a greai
day when, abJu an eighth Of a mile
from a gate of Jerusalem. under a SIX,
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