Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-11-03
From the New York Evening Post.
THE DEMOCRATIC RECEPTION OF ROY
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the Japanese Embassy, Wide-Awake torch-light
professions, and the reception of Lord Renfew,
our streets have exhibited a %vivacity which re-
calls that of the Greoian cities in the ,imes Of the
Olympic games. New York bids fair to rival
Paris, at least in its public shows. Our citizens
are getting as facile at the formation Of vast en-.
Ihusiastie and orderly crowds as the mercurial
inhabitants of the French capital. A line in the
newspapers will gather half a million of people
in the principal thoroughfares, and these, after a
day OF noisy rejoicing, will separate as peaceably
as they had ZONE together.
This was the feature of the demonstration on
Thursday which, VIC venture to say, will impress
the minds Of our distinguished visitors from the
other side of the Atlantic. Broadway, on both
sides, from the Battery to Madison Square was
a continuous mass Of human beings. The city,
the suburbs, the rural districts for miles around,
contributed to the throng from oil classes of their
population. 1t was not a picked, but wholly
miscellaneous assemblsge. The proceedings were
not according to a formal programme which had
been rehearsed for q week beforehand, but quite
spontaneous. Yet we doubt whether, with all the
military precautions which they are accustomed to
take abroad on such occasions, a more respectful,
sell'restrained and yet excited crowd was ever col.
lected. We do not hear of any disorder at any
point of the long four miles of closely packed but
animated humanity. In the upper parts of the
city, where the expectations of tie multitude
were grievously disap pointed, a little impaticnce
and resentment might have been only natural.
but even there, until long after dark, the good
natured spectators kept their places, without pro.
ducing any disturbance. An eminent English
lady, now on a visit to this country, remarked
that in oil her experience of popular parades she
had never seen anything 30 mighty good-natured
and kindly as the people under their severe disan-
pointment. In many foreign cities, under the
same circumstances the police would have been
wholly unable to restrain the mob from some
manifestation of violence,
What a strange sightit was, this popular and DEM
ocratic welcome OF the representative of a foreign
monarchy! Our readers have perhaps followed the
brief sketches of the lives of the Princes Of Wales.
which have heretofore appeared in the columns of
the EVENING Posi-, and which close to-day. Thew
will recall the singular vicissitudes of condition
through which many of them have passed the
stormy career of the Black Prince in France: the
dark wanderings of Edward of Westminster and
his heroic mother, - the wild and wayward desti-
MES OF Charles of st. James's; but they will find
in the history of mono of them a scene more novel
ana curious than that which yesterday greeted
Albert Edward, the son Of Victoria. The demo-
cratic metropolis of the great democratic repub-
lie, moved by no special international alliance.
but on the simple impulse of respect and friend
Illness, decorated its streets to receive him, and
sent up cheer upon cheer wherever he pasaed. He,
the prince royal of a foreign nation, destined, if
he should live, to be its king, is as heartily well
coined by the descendants of thore who, q few
years since, tore themselves away from the empire
of bis fathers with violence and bloodshed, as he
could have been in any part of his native land.
England may learn from these warm popular
manifestations that Americans cherish none of the
old prejudices engendered in war. They have for
gotten the Injustice of the past, and they enter
tain no jealousies for the future. Not insensible
of the defects of her political constitution, they
yet honor Great Britain for what she has been and
for what she is, for what she has done for the civil
cation OF the world and what she is still doing.
They admit her substantial greatness, glory, free
dom. They admire the frankness, the enterprise,
the pluck of the English people. They love the
%virtuous and amiable character of their Queen,
who as mother and as monarch is equally distin-
guisbed for her excellent qualities, and q large
part OF tho homage eVlnced towards the con, ia in
tended to reflect from him to his illustrious par
ent. As an evidence, then, of their frank good
will, and of their wish to cultivate forever the
most cordial relations of friendship with a noble
nation, they receive the son Of its sovereign with
open arms and e~xultant voices.
On the Prince himself the incidents of this visit
must produce, in various ways, O beneficial i'm
preston; should he live to reign, he will remember
this country with other feelings than those of an
utter stranger; the pictures of memory will not be
wholly obliterated; he will not be able to forget
those signs of an immense prosperity which he
has seen as the accompaniment of popular liberty
and in future contests, whether at home or abroad,
between privilege and right, he cannot strip him
self of oil sympathy for tho liberal side. lie has
seen, what few monarchs before him will have
seen, what few would now credit if told, the great
body of the people 10 the possession of supreme
political rights, exercising their power with none
of that traditional f%erOcity aud turbulence which
is supposed to characterize democracy, but with
moderation, self-control and wisdom. lie hal
eeeuI d - tH6 Iebult Vi Tree In5lllutl )ns, q uegree Of
enterprise, of skill, of comfort, difused among al
classes of citizens, which is nowhere else seen or
earth, not even in Great Britain, with all thu
wealth and culture of centuries. 1t will be impos
sible for him to forget utterly the lessons laugh
him during his rapid tour of the western CONT
nent. lie is young; but he is Impossible, and
there are wise heads about him who will not, We
believe, allow the occasion to pass off without reaI
profit.
1t is a wise step on the part of the Queen to
send the heir apparent to these new countries
where new experiments in society and politics are
going forward, rather than to the European courts
where false maxims of royal power are in the as
cendant, and corrupt practices stain the annals oil
both public and private life. Albert Edward
among the lumSermen of the St. Lawrence, OIL
hunting grouse upon the p%rairies, is a thousand
times halter employed than the Charleses were a