The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-09-03
OhSeGNinusnpsS To Rank

II is Impossible 10 see whole columns of the
mammoth journals in the large cities given up
10 Inc most minute and elaborate details of
the visit OF the Prince of WALES to Canada.
ana especially to observe the social rivalries
ana heart-burDinss in advance of the Princes
visit to America, which are already making
themselves visible ia the public prints, with
ont the mostint tense disgust and modification.
We yR3e to no man in respect for that great
empire Of whose government the Prince is a
representative, nor ofits ereditary ar tocracy
unsurpassed in all the qualities that an aris-
tocracy should be composed of by any country
on earth. We would have the Prince received
everywhere in America with respect. with
courtesy and cordially: but at the same ,ina
with self-respect and with dignity. What
must he think Of a republican people who sur.
pass the cockneyS Of bis own London in their
servility to raukl We don't know what he
Will think, for, even If gifted with more than or
binary faculties Of observation aud reflection of
which there is no evidence. he is too immatnra
yet to do aught but enjoy himself but what
opinion will those sagacious and clever old
noblemen, the Duke eofNEwcAsTLg Il aud others
who think for the Prince, form of Amsri.
can Repuolicanism and American Society
when rhey see its social leaders eager to pros.
trate themselves at the very feet of royalty.
and exhibiting in every look and word and
gesture, cringiRg consciousness of their own
inferiority! Probably. these enlightened per.
sonagss will justly conclude even if they did
not know 1t before, that the Declaration of In.
dependence was by no means a recognition of
social equality, that the renunciation of polit-
ical allegiance TO Great Britain did not displace
the hold that hereditary rank has upon the
reverence of all whe were born under its infiu-
ence.and oftheir children's children To the third
and fourth generation, especially when they
are educated by literature which has its ORR
gin in the land which orcc made our laws and
which is far more universal and peryadinv In
it's influence than any ioraei enactment unon
the statute book. There never did exist a
country without some kind of aristocracv
elmer OF oirtn, talent or wealth, and some
times, as in England, we find all three com.
bined. The United States are yet in state of
social fermentation, and in some of our large
cities, the scum Is upon the surface, and it will
require many years TO give tone and mellow
ness to our best attempts at patrieian state.
All true Republicans could wish that this
were otherwise, that moral and intelleetna,
worth and refinement Of taste and sentiment
pyramid. but ii is not in forms of government
to change human nature: We fear that man
of the intelligent gen tlemen in the Prince OF
Wales saite will see through the thin veneer.
ing of our republican forms, and conclude that
our republicanism is all a magnificent sham.
thing which we do not believe ourselves. md
which has no vital connection wi tn the popular
heart. Such, certainly, will be the result OF
their observations ii they confine their visit
to the United States to the great cities. which
are made up of a heterogeneous population.
whose whels life is aruficial, bat who, happi.
ly, do not constitute one-tenth of the Ameri.
can people. .
We cannot repress the wish. however. that
the Prince of Wales might be received eyery.
where with the blended courtesy and dig.
nifty which characterize the true gen tieman in
his Intercourse with men of all classes and con.
ditions. Having chosen in the languag of his
Royal Mother, to lay aside all royal state upon
his visit TO the United States, and to travel in
equally disregard his own wishes and violate
good taste by the snperseryiceable aud Off.
cious serviiity which would insist apon show.
ing him OF among Us as the Prince of Wales
60 that we may have an opportunity of faii.
lag upon our knees. and kissing the sceptre O,
royalty. Even as plain English Baron, b,
would have trying time enough Of 1t ID
running the gauntlst Of our frantic lion.
hunters but as PRINCE. Heaven help him
and us! s
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