Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-26
WAY We Honor the Prince.

wherever he appears in public, is nothing
hut the ordinary sightseeing curiosity,
which any celebrity will gather; but, besides
this, there is the general anxiety among dig
nitaries, municipal bodies, members of our
first society and potent, grave, and reverend
seniors TO be brought into the presence of
this boy. A committee of venerable Fifth
Avenoodles, from New York, representing
the wealth of the commercial metropolis of
this continent, are as humble in their request
to be permitted to furnish an entertainment
for this young man, who is distinguished for
nothing but his accidents, as if they had all
their lives worn the livery of flunkies. The
Southern rabies which breaks out at the
sight Of an AbolitiOnist on Southern soil, is
entirely overcome by this sprig of Abolition
royalty, and they vie with the North in prof
fering service to this future King of nation
the most hostile to their peculiar institution,
and which constantly holds out temporary
refuge TO their fugitive property.
1t is interesting to note the reasons that
men give TO themselves for this adulation
Some try to excuse their man-worship by
talking ofpaying respect to the position and
not to the man, just as they do in the case of
our own President as if respect were due to
an inpersonal, impalpable Office, apart from
its incumbent. This is merely talking nom
sense. In the present case, our people talk
of the intimate commercial relations between
the two countries, as requiring extraordi-
nary respect to a Prince who is to be the
King of one of them. And because manu-
factures and commerce have built up bust
meas relations with England, we must pay
honors to a Prince who represents a crown
which is the foundation Of an sristocracy
that regards the men of manufactures and
commerce as unfit to associate with it. We
must show our sense of the importance Of
our commercial relations with Great Britain
10y honoring the representative of throne
which holds the men who create these rela-
tons as unworthy to be presented to it. Is
not TINS strikingly sensible, and beautiful
illustration Of American Democracy and
manhood
All this is merely fond deluson; as is
also the popular fiction that sturdy inde-
pendence belongs TO the Anglo Saxon race,
which is fond of vindiceting its own man
hood and equality, and which spurns servil-
ity to rank. We have always talked of the
prosirations required in Eastern courts, as
s all ahiectservility was confined to Oriental
countries. This is all a prejudice, as
blind as that of the Chinese that his is the
celestial nation, and all others are barba-
Iians. Our prevailing preiudices and man
ners are English, and there is no country
under Heaven where rank is 80 servilely
worshiped as in England. There is none
in which nobility of birth has such power
and wealth, nor in which rank is kept so
exclusive.
The material condition of England is that
OF a conquered country, divided among the
chiefs of the conquerors. In its great ma
terial features the country remains just what
it was when William the Conqueror divided
il amoug his chiefs. To the mass of the
people it is just as much q conquered coun-
try no@ as it was then. Single noblemen
hold whole counties of land, with thousands
of tenantry dependent on their caprice, and
with game laws and laws against bearing
arms, which constantly proclaim that the
products of earth, air and water all belong
10 the conquerors. ......
This aristocrecy is preserved by the
atrocious institution ofprimogeniture, which
virtually makes illegitimate every child ex-
cept the eldest son; and, as when Amurath
succeeded Amurath, destroys all his brothers
10 maintain the title of the eldest. The
swine which devours her own young, is
hardly more brutal than this system, which
makes the eldest son the robber of the other
children. This power of a small number of
mobiles is enhanced by the share in the Gov
ernment to which they are born. To this
entail, which makes beggars of the younger
children, naturally belongs the enormous
official patronage of the Government, in the
civil service, all over the world, in ithe
church, the army and navy, all of which are
appropriated for portions for these disin-
herited sons of the aristocracy.
From this comes that obsequiousness Of
great Barons to the throne. Lords and
Ladies of manors which cover a whole
county, and of the proudest descent, are glad
to accept q household position in the royal
family, whose duties are nominally menial;
and noblemen are foremost in the strife for
political place and power, that they may
pension their disinherited relations on the
nation. How could such condition result
otherwise than in an obsequious spirit to
soperiors, and q domineering spirit to infe-
riOTsH This is the trait of the Anglo-Saxon
race. There is no use denying it; and thi;
is the trait which we have retained, a:
strongly as any of our inheritances from thai
Mother Country. This it is which sets tn,
weaIthiest-whieh means the greatest--o
the Americans, in full cry after Prince whit
is not yet out of his teens; and this it i
which makes titles, whether real or spu
rious, supreme at our watering places, ant
in our first society.
In other European countries the selectnes
of rank has been broken down by diffu
sion, by an occasional revolution, still NOR
by the distribution of estates, and by thu
nobility being deprived Of political power
The distance between the Princes and til,
peOple isaIso reduced by the military serv
ice, in which the Prince takes part; alsC
by an occasional overthrow of a throne
which makes it convenient to appeal to tn,
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