Whether
Great Britain Will Ever Allow Any Colony Of Hers To Depart From Out
Of Her Nest, To Secede And
Start for herself, without any struggle
or heart-burnings, with all furtherance for such purpose which an
old and powerful
Country can give to a new nationality then first
taking its own place in the world's arena, is a problem yet to be
solved. There is, I think, no more beautiful sight than that of a
mother, still in all the glory of womanhood, preparing the wedding
trousseau for her daughter. The child hitherto has been obedient
and submissive. She has been one of a household in which she has
held no command. She has sat at table as a child, fitting herself
in all things to the behests of others. But the day of her power
and her glory, and also of her cares and solicitude, is at hand.
She is to go forth, and do as she best may in the world under that
teaching which her old home has given her. The hour of separation
has come; and the mother, smiling through her tears, sends her
forth decked with a bounteous hand, and furnished with full stores,
so that all may be well with her as she enters on her new duties.
So is it that England should send forth her daughters. They should
not escape from her arms with shrill screams and bleeding wounds,
with ill-omened words which live so long, though the speakers of
them lie cold in their graves.
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