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

resentatives of the New World 10 his SOW
ereign, who then and there in token Of
her gratitude bestowed upon him the
high honor OF Knighthood.
y. Sir Walter Raleighs Servant Pour
ing Ale on his Master.
OF all The varied resources of the New
World, the one which supplied the want
the human family had hitherto felt but
never enjoyed. was our own golden leaf.
The pipe of peace had for ages been
smoked by the dauntless warriors of the
West Tobacco needed only to be nitro
duced to Europe by so renowned man
as Raleigh to at once become the fashion
Of the World-a fashion with ladies Oh
rank, no less than with men.
On the arrival Of Lanes first cargo oil
tobacco in England. Sir Walter hghled
his pipe, and as clouds Of smoke issued
from his mouth his affrighted servant
dashed into his face pitchers OF ale pc
lieving his master to be actually atire'
10. Virginia Dare and Mother on Roam
oke Island.
After the first colony under Ralph
Lane. despairing of Greenville's return
had made their way home on the ships
NJ sir Francis Drake, a third expedition
was sent out by Raleigh, still determlh-
ad tn nIant an agricultural State; men
with wives and families comprised the
party. ,-o-
They arrived at Roanoke July, 1881,
and there the foundations of the CITY Oh
Raleigh" were laid.
Tine Governor of the city, White, re-
turned with the ships under the preteN'
of going to intercede for re-inforcemehts
and supplies.
He had seen the manifest hostility of
the Indians, and like an arrant coward
deserted his people.
ON the 18th of August, 1887, just nine
DAYS before his departure. his daughter
Elinor Dare, wife of one Of his asSo-
ciates, became the mother of the nrst
child born of English parents on the SOIL
of the United States.
When White returned the next year
hs found his colony forever lost, and IN
place of the CITY of Raleigh, was cary
ed on the bark of a tree the word
"Croatan."
''In vain, in vain their heart-sick search
No tidings reached them more,
No record save that silent word.
Upon that silent shore"
IL. Song-'Now, o, Now | Needs Must
Part. From Dowlands First Book OF
Songs, 1897.
II. Sir Walter Raleighs Trial.
Upon the accession of James 1st in
1903, the cruel, suspicious and narrow
spirit of the Stuarts, which dominated
them till their fall, at once marked BAL
eigh for it's prey A. pretext was found
that he was conspiring with Spain to
place Lady Arabella Stuart upon the
throne, and though never sustained by a
syllable of credible testimony he was al
once put upon his trial for treason and
convicted, as matter of course, and hur-
ried to the tower. where he was allowed
to remain for thirteen years; the tyrant
James not then daring to put him to
death.
His trial is the darkest blot upon the
judicial history of the English speaking
people.
Sir Edward Coke was Attorney Gen.
eral, and in the course Of his prosecu-
ton made use of the vilest epithets, and
descended to the lowest species of black
guardism, with which any eminent law
yer has ever besmirched the records Of
justice.
Not even Bacon. who had been en-
ployed by the King to aid in the prose
cution Con account of his own ungratefu
and inhuman prosecution of Essex was
allowed by Coke to tak& part in the
trial of Raleigh, lest he might display
some of the instincts of a gentleman ant
courtesies of a lawyer.
49, Sir Walter Raleigh in Prison Read
ing hid History to his wife.
The fame of Raleigh in the New World
and, especially, in our own State, rests
securely upon his heroic efforts to col
onize and civilize a new and barbarou:
land, and to save it from the Anglo
Saxon race, but his peculiar misfortune
of long Imprisonment redowned to his
wider and more enduring fame as writer
and thinker.
His History OF the World" was tht
first and most monumental work of its
character which any man had attempted
it embodied the best thought, both an
cient and modern, which the most ger
satile mind in the world possessed.
Though, bodily incarcerated. his min5
was free. and his intellectual pleasures
and communions With his wife, the beau
tiful Elizabeth Throck Morton We're
doubtless, more delightful than his tri-
umphs upon the field, or in the coun-
ellis Of the State.
IA Sir Walter Raleigh Reading the
Letters of Sir Ralph Lane to Prince
Henry.
OF all the worthy enterprises which
ever engaged the mind of Sir Walter
Raleigh, the one which best displayed
his nobility % character was his lone
and loving training of Prince Henry
oldest son of James LIST and heir appar-
ent. He had imbued the young Prince
mind with ideas of liberty, constitutional
government and reciprocal duties between
sovereign and people, which none of tho
other Stuarts ever hadi the faculty tc
learn, or the virtue to practice
He was fast inclining to a liberal and
progressive policy in the colonization OIL
the New World, which would have adj
vanced the progress of civilization II
England and America a century at least
The devotion of the young Prince tC
an unfortunate prisoner and tine rapture
with which his dawning mind received
the glorious narrative of the old world
and the splendid possibilities of the new