The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1905-08-22
CITY OF QUEBEC.
"She Queens The North, Supreme,
Alone. ."-Veritable Repository
of American History.

thousand blessings upon you, for the
Joy and inspiration that you have CIV
en- me! May your glory never be
eclipsed, and your power to charm
never cease! I pay you willing and
hearty tribute, for your queenly
| graces have won me to warmest ad-
miration and l am henceforth a wor-
shipper and votary of all you hold
dear in history, that does not con-
travene my convictions of justice and
loyalty. Have I not in the past been
entranced by the story Of valorous
deeds that were enacted in the strug-
giles and conflicts of opposing forces
for the right as each then saw it?
Had I an Aeolian harp I would watt
you from Our sunny cline gentle
southland breezes that would sing
you a new song of rapturous praises.
"She CLEANS above her granite throne
Her gray walls grid her ample zone
She queens the North, supreme,
alone"
This is Quebec, veritable monarch
of all she surveys. With attrac-
tions varied without the sight of
which arrested at once my attention.
I took passage on the boat from
Point Lewis; my vessel steamed across
the majestic St. Lawrence, with
Poin: Diamond glistening upon my
feasting eyes, and l have felt that I
might we'll restrict this article to a
narrative of the beautiful situation
without, but I hesitate; in retrospect
and reverie my mind indulged while
within her walled entourage, and so
must recount the impressions made
upon me; of what I saw and heard
Us our cicerone conveyed us hither
and thither in his labyrinthian cir
cult. Here are angles and curves
and inclines, and one must need have
a guide to save him from error and
''confusion of. face The flight of
time, the march of invading and con-
tending armies, the final struggle for
supremacy, the relics of former peri
DDS, the customs Of bye-gone days,
these and other things afford delight
full contemplation, and the mind is
keyed up to highest tension in specu-
lative romance and imaginative en-
quiry. It was thus with this scribe,
as ne'er before, when moving amid
the scenes Of former splendor Of
cruel, mayhap unholy carnage, such
as has made Quebec veritable re-
pository of American history. Her
battlements would frown upon you,
and her dogs Of war would make
short shrift, if perchance you were
an invading foe, but her welcome to
friendly visitor is never less acute,
for her gates arc always widely ajar
TO receive those who bear her cor
dial greetings. And so in peaceful
mood. enter her gates, literally so,
and naturally my first thought is
e the heroic Wolfe and the daunt-
less Montcaln, of Wolfe and his
valiant band who scaled the precipi-
tous heights and as subsequent events
have shown exhibited a bravery and
strtagem never surpassed. Like the
:Spartans at Thermopylae, so was
Wolfe and his 5000 on the Plains of
Abraham. "His was rot to reason
why, his was but to do and die,"
and dying victorious death, shed in
effable glory upon true valor and
daring. But his opponent, the Mar
quis de Montcalm, was no less in
trepid, for the engagement was sharp
and severe, it "was war to the knife
and knife to the f1ilt," his wounds
were mortal and being advised of his
extremity, praised God that he might
not live to witness the fall of his be-
loved city.
Eagerly did I seek to stand upon
the very grounds, where Wolfe and
Montcalm engaged in battle, Oh the
fateful 13th September, 1859; scenes
were enacted then and there which
decided the course OF after events