Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-24
eoutbcrn nOspitaiIty 10 the Prince.

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eouthcrn Hospitality TO the Prince.
Twenty OF thirty Southern gentlemen
have constituted themselves into a COM
nittee, and invited the Prince of Wales and
suite 10 visit the South. We have all along
half suspected that the intense nervousness
which the South affect in regard to having
Northern men, or Abolitonsts come among
them, was sham, and this confirms it. These
English are Abolitionists, not only theoreti-
caly but practically. They abolished slavery
in the West Indies. These are they who pay
honors to Fred Douglas Charles Sumner
and Mrs. Beecher Stowe. Great Britain is
the great bulwork of abolitionism; and if we
are to believe the prevailing talk in the South,
from thence come the funds for carrying on
the irrepressible conflict in the United States
Sire il is that incites slaves to escape by
holding out refuge to them on our northern
frontier, where no fugitive law, nor elastic
Constitution can reach them, and where they
are as good as white folks This asylum it
was that Governor Wise, with single regi-
ment of Virginia volunteers land dozen
United States marines, threatened to invade
and clean out. Southern property, of the
value Of untold millions, is there, wrong
fully withheld from its owners. The failure
of the fugitive law in single case in the
Northern States is proclaimed by the South
as q call for horrible slaughter, disunion,
and general state of discomfort. But the
Prince and future King of this robber strong
hold Of fugitive slaves, comes here, with the
odor of the adulotion of these very fugitives
upon his garments and a score of Southern
AolJ ,,;,l,
themselves by inviting him to their hospi-
talites.
Only last winter the courtly Senator
Cbesnut affected to scorn Mr. Sumner for
fawning upon the British aristocracy. Now
when it comes in this most questionable
shape, with the African odor of Southern
wrongs upon il, we find the South among
the first to fawn upon it. There is some
think queer about this, and when the Duke
of Newcastle visits our sanctum, which he
will do as soon as he gets on a clean shirt
after his arrival in this city, we shall give
him a hint. Either this is gang Of secret
Abolitionists in the South, which requires at
tention and some of those mild applications,
which are specific there, or the Prince had
better look out for these Greeks with their
gifts of hospitality.
Can it he possible that it is plot to in
veigle the Prince and suite south of Mason
and Dixon's line, and then hold him as hos
tage for the return of the Southern negroes
from Canada? and perhaps to give him
royal robe Of tar and feathers to wear until
that contamination is effected2 Either the
Southern Cerberus, who watches over the
Southern institution, is drugged, or there
tra;tore in fha Eoutbarp oop,, 80 .a...
thing Southern is intended for the Prince.
Logically they can not choose but Lynch
him. There is no other horn to that dilemma.
We wonder if the Princes mother knows
he's out, and what he's exposed to. What
if he should come within the reach of the
terrible Governor Wisel He would swallow
him at one mouthful. A man who talks so
dreadfully as the Governor, of raw-heads
and bloody bones, and indiscriminate
slaughter, could do no less. His reputation
would be at stake, and he must do it, What
If the terocious Brutus A. Prior, who promises
TO plunge his dagger into all future Repub-
IiOan Presidents, unless they walk Spanish,
should come foul of the Princel Let the
Hope of England be provided with Bowie
knife of imposing dimensions. Nothing else
will save him from that Brutus.
In times not long ago, it was the custom
70 receive and hold hostages for the safe re-
turn of Princes when they ventured in other
dominions. Inasmuch as travelling in the
South ia as dangerous to strangers now as it
ever was, even in the very shady ages ofthe
world, it would be proper that these South
ern gentlemen, who SO desire the visit of
true eghteen-year-old Prince, should ac-
company their invitation with a list of host
ages, whom they will send to be held in
Canada while the Prince is with them
Governor Wise, for instance, Mr. Breckin-
ridge, Brutus A. PryOr-leaving his dagger
at home-and President Buchanan. These
could be spared without inconvenience, and
it would look friendly and sincere in the
South to offer them, and would tend to re-
move any suspicion that may naturally at
tach to this singular offer of hospitality tc
the heir-apparent to an Abolition Kingdom