The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-11-07
OPINION OF THE ENGLISH PRESS ON
THE PRINCES RECEPTION.
THE PRINCE AT DETROIT-AMERICAN
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. &C.

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, THE PRINCE AT DETROIr-AMERICA.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, &C.
From the LONDON News
The following is an extract from the privat,
} letter OF an English gentleman travelling in Amer
, ica:-
CHICAGO, Saturday, Sept. %.
The Prince has now got into the States
arrived at Detroit few hours after him, and the
opinions expressed by Americans upon the sub
Ject OF the royal visit are worth noticing.
think the great majority of people here disap
prove OF the fuss made about the royal youth al
Detroit. They completely understand and ap
preciate the Queens determination that her son
should travel in the States as private gentle.
man. Every man-some Of them workpeople-
is anxious that the Prince, who will some day be
King OF England, should form just Judgment OF
the American people Above al things, they
are bent upon convincing him that they are no,
the barbarians they often supposed to be-
Again and again have heard them rejoice that
no demonstrations have been made, and that the
masses have behaved in the streets Of Chicago
with perfect decorum. myself saw the Prince
in low open barouche and four horses pass up
Michigan avenue with nc other protection than
ten or twelve policemen in common clothes with
batOns. The truth is, the Americans feel very
bitterly the injustice of English travellers and
and tourists. Let those who estimate the Eng.
lish morality by the Neryate Calendar, English
writers, VINO should have known better, have
put together all the eccrentric stories of Amer
| ca" hfs-st which the Americans taugn just as
heartily as fOreigners-and call such collections
pictures of American manners. Now, it is the
earnest desire of the grea. majority of Ameri.
cans to use the Princes visit as means of cor.
recting these false impressions. Ii the Prince
himself is somewhat young, they saw at all events
those about him have sagacity enough to see
through their outward peculiarities, and to find
that the Americans are much more civilized and
refined than people in England commonly sup.
pose. confess hope for the same result 1t
is really impossible to estimate the injury done
to England by those who have written travels in
this country. These lucubrations have unfor-
tunatey tended to keep up that irritation which
began at the time OF the Declaration of Indepen.
dence and has been continued ever since.
Ii seems utterly impossible for al Engshman
to realize the fact-that living fact here-that
all men are politically equal. The poorest man
considers himself equal to the richest and the
most powerful. This may seem a dangerous
doctrine, but the practical consequence is simply
this, that you must speak to every man as your
equal, and must avoid assuming in manner any
kind of superiority. Act in this manner, and
you will find every person as civil as possible
Enslishmcn, however, as 1 myself have witness
ed, constantly and very naturally assume that
there is political inequality. They order about
the walters" boys" as they are called-at ho-
tells, as if they had some natural right to dictate
to them. This does not suit the American ideas
and the result is ill.nature, and sometimes insO.
lence. Now, if those who accompany the Prince
can only discern the particular characteristics Of
this Countrywide obstinate conviction that all
men are politically equal, ard the determination
to act upon that convctOn-they will find no
difficulty in obtaining all the respect they desire
/ only wish that some of those who were so We
| hemsnt in their opposition to the reform bill of
last session were here to test by facts the truth
of these opinions.
1t needs not many days in this country to as
certain that any comparison between this coun-
try and England is utterly impractcable. The
circumstances of the country are entirely differ.
ent The people to be governed are entirely
different. But even If comparison were posi-
be, it is certain that amongst the better classes
property and life are quite as secure as it would
be possible to make them under any form of gov
.-nment, considering the circumstances of the
! case. nave CUuscIsCu "i.i. A---:---- -
Englishmen settled in this country, and they as
! sure ue tuat property Is QuiIc rs cdic ucTc dS
England; and that, indeed, the enormous mate
rial prosperity of the West would be impossible
| If this security were not attained. But of this
at some future time.
/ From the London Times.
Our citizen cousins also See in
this young gentleman an example of hat royalty
which has lately been exposed to more than usual
vicissitudes. Kings in these days have to fight
for their thrones, and sometimes fly for their
lives. Wisely or not, they command in wars and
entertain grand ideas At no time were they
more before the world and if the tenor of recent
English history would seem to exempt our sOve-
regns from this dangerous prominence, the
Americans still regard George III. as q mighty
wrong dOer, and the unsuccessful champion of ar
Old World idea. No wonder, then, that in mere
curiosity, not anmixed with awe, and in the de
sire to find out something in the royal visitor moi
obvious to vulgar apprehension, the citizen sur
! passes the subject. He wants to see, in the fac,
and bearing of the youth, some traces of tha
mysterious power which has enabled few fami
, lies to command for many ages the reverenta
homage of the civilized world. 1t ia not for thos
who see princes every day, to estimate the curl
osity Of those who hear of them only across
= hemisphere, or know them only through news
!, papers and books.
> The Canadians could think of something else
y thev had an eve to their railways and many c
) them thought their party emblems and color
Q more important even than their future Kins
i But no sooner does the Prince attempt to Ian
4 at Detroit, then he and his suite are halfkle
with curiosity and kindness. Had il been an a
tempt to retake the possessions of bis ancestor
g he could not have encountered denser phalanl
l. or greater difficulty in planting his foot on th
O rebellious soil A countless multitude pressed
the waters edge, closed all egress from the boa
crump'ed up the avenue of torch.bearers an
y when the Prince was at last smuggled into b
q carriage, cut of his suite, and hustled sever
'e into the water, where the private secretary of Il
> Governor General narrowly escaped drownin
4 and did not escape injury from the paddl
;, wheels. The multitude penetrated everywher
~ and could no more be kept out than the atmo
9, pheric pressure. For hours they watched eve
of door and window, scrutinized every departur
ii filed the railway station, clung to the carriage
opened the windows. gazed insatiably, and We
oaly shaken off by the motion of the depart
III train
1n Sixty years ago, politicians, if they could ha
q. conceived such an abandonment OF principle
,s the Prince of Wales accepting the hospitalit
,, of the American President and people, wor
&c have speculated on the chance Of his steali
II their hearts, and winning back our recreant
ut low. subjects. Certainly, one could not imag
.r. a more likely instrument for the conversion
these hard reasoners and vigorous politics
than young gentleman of unpretentious m
Law ners, having a word for everybody, and able
70 saw that word with mild look and q ger
md voice But such thought in these days NO
r ~,x 10 hopc