The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-04-12

rage TO Raleigh was kept secret. HSt
Majesty discovered il however, and re-
called him from an expedition TO Panama
and told him she thought herself entitled
10y royal prerogative to all the love lie
was sentN to the tower, but by the use
of a little adroit hattery the proud
Queen 6vas induced to release him, ana
the devotion between him and his wife
was never interrupted, as is manifested
by the letter which he wrote her from
the tower after the evil fortunes which
the reign of the Stuarts brought upon
him
Il. Recitation, Sir Humphrey Gil
bert
- Song Simon De Montfort" Chap
pell. Words from Percys Reliques.
10 Lady Raleighs Curse on the House
of Stuart.
After Raleighs Imprisonment his wife
sought the royal presence, and with all
the affection and earnestness of a sor-
rowing, broken hearted wife and mother,
implored the King to have compassion on
her and hers, and not to consign them to
utter beggary. The courtiers moved by
sympathy, looked on in silence and in
pity for her woes, hoped that her sor-
rows might find some alienation in the
grant of her prayers. The only answer
he could obtain from the royal brute was
that he must have the lands for Car,
one of his favOrites; Lady Raleigh re-
membering her noble birth and breeding
and with a lofty burst of indignant
feeling worthy of her husbands wife,
scorned to repeat her request but, fall
ing on her knees before the amazed
courtiers and the affrighted King, lifted
her hands to Heaven and in the ultter-
ness of her spirit, appealing to the King
of Kings besought the God Of Heaven
to remember her wrongs, to look upon
the justice of her cause, and in his own
good time to visit those who had so I'M
righteously brought her and hers to beg
gary and ruin 1t was a fearful maledic-
ton from an oppressed and injured wo-
man While the imprecation yet rung in
/ the ears of the alarmed and estonished
king, she rose, took her child by the
hand, and with an air of queenly majes-
ty, retired. History would almost lead
us to think as we recall the fate of the
House of Stuart, that her imprecation
was heard and answered in heaven
/ 20 Reading, Revenge 1891.
Il. Candle scene.
/ on the night before Raleighs execu-
ton. after bidding farewell to the one
loving and faithful companion that had
frightened and cheered his lonely cell so
long. when the last ray of nope had died
and the Pickering candle alone contended
with the mignight darkness, the sublime
Christian faith of this martyr directed his
immortal spirit to a life beyond the
grave; and at this solemn moment he
wrote upon the leaves of his Bible lines
of truth and beauty that will live for
/ ever:
Fen such as time, which takes in trust,
4 Our youth, our joys and all we have,
And pays us naught but age and dust,
Which in the dark and silent grave,
! We have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days
And from which grave and earth and dust,
The Lord shall raise me up I trust
/ %. Execution of Sir Walter Raleigh.
Convicted of treason for an alleged plot
with Spain, imprisoned for thirteen
years and released by James to conduct
an exploit for gold in Spanish territory,
brought home on a charge of making war
against Spain, but executed under the
1
Such is the black record which tde
court of James LIST made in the case of
the King against Raleigh. His request
for little time between the last SEN
tence and execution was inhumanly re-
fused and he was informed that ne must
die the next morning. Upon the scaffold
he 'exemplified the faith of a Christian
He laid his head upon the block, and On
being requested to make some change
on the position of his head, he said: at
matters little how the head lies, provided
the heart is right" He prayed He gave
the signal and said: What does't thou
fear? Strike, man. At two blows his
head was severed from his body And
thus ended the career of a soldier, states
man, writer. explorer and citizen. whose
versatility of mind and enterprise in at
fairs has shed greater luster upon his
country, and yet suffered more at the
hands of his sovereign than any man of
whom history keeps a record.
%. The ADotheosis.
| Monumental marble, surmounted by
enduring brass, IMPLYING the face and
form of Raleigh in the highest niche of the
capitol which bears his honored name
cynosure of all eyes in this broad State
with its two millions of happy people;
the genesis of our three centuries Of
glorious history; the path finder for our
| forefathers; a character Of heroic mould
by which posterity shall be ennobled;
such is the wide space in the history o;
North Carolina which belongs 20 Sir
| Walter Ralei@h.