Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . mWfnwfiiv 1 THE ROYAL INVITATION TO DINNER. the provinces. I supposed that the real value of the office isthe value that we give to the Vice-Presidency, that in the eventof the sudden death of the King the power would pass to thesecond, and the functions of State would go on, the secondKing b
Around the world with General Grant: a narrative of the visit of General , ex-president of the United States, to various countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in 1877, 1878, 1879To which are added certain conversations with General Grant on questions connected with American politics and history . mWfnwfiiv 1 THE ROYAL INVITATION TO DINNER. the provinces. I supposed that the real value of the office isthe value that we give to the Vice-Presidency, that in the eventof the sudden death of the King the power would pass to thesecond, and the functions of State would go on, the secondKing becoming the first, and another prince succeeding to hisstation. It has not proved so in Siam. The first King has, as a general thing, survived the secondin every case thus far, and the struggle between the two sove-reignties is one of the incidents in the politics of Siam. I wastold of the first Kings party and the second Kings party, and c. > c tr > > tn. THE SECOND KING. 2,y people took sides, just as at home they Jo in politics. Howthere could be a party for the second King, that did not meanthe deposition of the first and treason to the crown, was aproblem, and the fact that there was such a party gave me afavorable opinion of the toleration of the Siamese rule. What militates against the second Kings authority and hisclaims to the succession is that he is not a Celestial Prince. Ina nation where polygamy is the custom, and where a noblemanfeels himself honored if the sovereign accepts his daughter as amember of the royal household, there will naturally be manyprinces descended from the kings. There is a difference inprinces. The ordinary prince is the Kings son by any motherhe selects. The Celestial Prince must have a mother of royaldescent, and no one can be sovereign who is not celestial. Thepresent Kings wife is a Celestial Princess, his own half-sister;and of Celestial Princes there are, I believe, only four—theKings uncle, h
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