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January 23, 1861
Red Wing Sentinel
Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota
What is this article about?
A Mobile correspondent suggests to the London Post that Queen Victoria send warships to aid Southern commerce and install one of her sons as monarch to prevent emancipation and establish a strong government in the eight Confederate states.
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A SOUTHERN MONARCHY.
A correspondent writing from Mobile to the London Post, gives the subjoined gentle hint to Queen Victoria to come to the rescue of "imperiled slavery:
"I hope Queen Victoria will lend us twenty or thirty of her men-of-war ships to assist our commerce. If she keeps good faith with us, there is no telling what might happen. I would not be surprised to see good, sound constitutional monarchy here in three years. We are republican aristocracy already, and sooner than allow the country to be destroyed by emancipation of the negro, we boldly look to a strong government, and who would suit so well as one of Queen Victoria's sons? You then would be our friends out and out. Our eight States are as large as all Europe, save Russia, and here is the foundation of a great people—negroes and all. We want foreign commerce, the establishment of the useful arts, and we want liberalism, the arts and sciences, and we have riches enough for all this."
A correspondent writing from Mobile to the London Post, gives the subjoined gentle hint to Queen Victoria to come to the rescue of "imperiled slavery:
"I hope Queen Victoria will lend us twenty or thirty of her men-of-war ships to assist our commerce. If she keeps good faith with us, there is no telling what might happen. I would not be surprised to see good, sound constitutional monarchy here in three years. We are republican aristocracy already, and sooner than allow the country to be destroyed by emancipation of the negro, we boldly look to a strong government, and who would suit so well as one of Queen Victoria's sons? You then would be our friends out and out. Our eight States are as large as all Europe, save Russia, and here is the foundation of a great people—negroes and all. We want foreign commerce, the establishment of the useful arts, and we want liberalism, the arts and sciences, and we have riches enough for all this."
What sub-type of article is it?
Curiosity
Historical Event
What themes does it cover?
Fortune Reversal
Survival
What keywords are associated?
Southern Monarchy
Queen Victoria
Men Of War Ships
Imperiled Slavery
Constitutional Monarchy
Emancipation
Confederate States
What entities or persons were involved?
Queen Victoria
Where did it happen?
Mobile
Story Details
Key Persons
Queen Victoria
Location
Mobile
Story Details
Correspondent proposes Queen Victoria aid the South with warships and a royal son as monarch to preserve slavery and build a strong constitutional monarchy in the eight states, larger than most of Europe.