The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-06-29
cHAUNCEY DEPEW'S IMPRESS
SIoNS OF THE JUBILEE.

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of the Civilized World.
Hon. Chauncey n. Depew has writ
ten for the Associated Press an account
the great English jubilee as he sees
Ii. Thousands of people r attending
it. The purpose of it is TO celebrate the
anniversary Of the ascension
Queen Victoria to the throne. Her
reign has been the longest in English
history. For the benefit Of our readers,
we give Mr.. Depew's letter below as it
was written from London last week:
1.-THE Diamond Jubilee procession has
passed and has left q lasting impression.
It's preparation required sixty years,
and was over in sixty minutes. Pride,
power and alteration were its charac-
teristics. Pride in the imperial position
of Great Britain in the world, and ex-
hibition of power which inspires this
national exaltation and fervid loyalty
in action expression and thought for
the Queen.
LAS to the pageant, it was dramatic
and historic. The Lord Mayor in his
robes of Office, meeting the sovereign
at the city gates, recalled the early
suggestion of liberty, in the privileges
won from kings by free cities, and the
sheriff, in medieval costume escorting
the monarch within its bailiwick, gave
q glimpse Of the origin and recognition
Of civil rights by the throne.
s'The monarch escorted by Princes
and guarded by the military forces of
Che realms, both regulars and volun.
teers, national and colonial, evidenced
the strength and permanercy of the
monarchial system with this people.
I'VE Americans in our country, and
in it's marvellous developments in a
hundred years, and duly assert
selves on the Ash of July. The celebra-
ton by the Germans of the twenty fifth
anniversary of the battle of Sedan and
the founding of the German Empire,
which I saw, was a wonderful exhibi
ton Of race ard national feeling.
But the c~onsecrRted and irrepress
IDLE JOY and pride which preceded, &C
compenied and followed the Queen like
a resistless torrent, surpassed anything
ever witnessed before. Though many
races and many tongues participated,
the dominant and absorbing expression
was English, and the glory was Eng
lands.
THE enthusiasm and shouting was
far different from those evoked by the
triumphal procession of a Roman con-
queror. Men and women eagerly ex-
pressed to each other, and emphasized
to foreigners, as the colonials marched
marched by, that they wer not cap
tives chained to the chariot Of their
copqueror, but willing subjects, free
citizens of one worldwide empire, fol
lowing their sovereign"
"White, yellow and black soldiers
trooped by, each accelerating and in
creasing the tidal wave of enthusiasm
and presenting a panorama of power
unequalled in history. The seeds of
this power were in the American revo
ton and it expanded into this wonder
full spectacle by the principles of self
government so triumphantIy vindi
Gated by the founders of the United
States.
Among the American spectators
there was no jealousy nor stint of praise
and applause. We could both glory in
the vitality and virility of the mother
country and rejoice nightly. We were
not marching in the procession, but we
were present at the proud equal in all
that constitutes a free people and all
thet constitutes a free people and a
great nation.
1T was pleasing to note our neigh
bors of Canada. They easily took the
lead among the colonies. The fact that
the province of Quebec was in rebellion
when Victoria came to the throne and
thather Premier, now here, isa French
man and a Catholic, appealed to Eng
ligh imagination. That the c escendants
of Montcalm and his countrymen should
vie with the children Of Wolfe and his
soldiers in their loyalty, and that Can
ada has made a beginning by favoring
Great Britain as against other nations
in her tariff have touched both the
British heart and pocket.
Making due allowance for the ex-
altation of the hour, Victoria will &C.
cupy a great place in the history of the
nineteenth century. Her influence for
peace has been a momentous conee-
quence to Great Britain, Europe and
civilization.
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