New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-06-21
4 Canadian view Of Our Hospitality.

A Canadian View of Our Hospitality.
We published, says the New York Herald, in the
editorial columns of the Herald q few days ago an
article the subject Of the Prince Of Wales visit
to North America, and alluded more particularly
to the apparent unpatriotc conduct of the citizens
Of Toronto In not coming forward promptly TO sub
scribe for liquidation of the expenses attending
the visit of the Prince. We also stated that should
the Prince visit this city, would give him re-
ception worthy of his rank, no matter what the
cost might be, but that no word about cost should
reach his ear. Our Canada neighbors, it would APP
pear from an article published in the Toronto
Globe and which we publish below, did not re-
ceive the article in the Kind spirit in which we in
tended to expand their patriotism, and the editor
of that paper relieves his mind in the following
article: VI Wy 81 4. . SaAs s -
The above certainly conveys to as lesson to
wash our dirty linen at home, and not give oeca-
sion to outsiders to jeer. Properly speaking, how
ever, nothing has been done in Toronto to justify
the statement Of the Herald that there is any lack
of rejoicing over the Princes visit in this city. 1t
is very true, no doubt, that larger sum of money
could be raised in New York in single hour for
the reception of the Prince Of Wales than in q
week in Toronto. There are enough Of Britons in
Gotham to accomplish that feat without applying
to the Americans, who are never backward in any
matter OF show. New York is great city, To-
ronto is small one. The undertaking we have in
hand is not small one, however, and there should
be no surprise that the of carrying it through
are carefully considered and keenly discussed.
We have not the least doubt that the New York
ers would spend their money freely to entertain the
Prince of Wales; that fifty or hundred thousand
dollars would not stand in the way Of doing the
thing in what they consider the proper style.
What the Americans lack il not lberalty /; they
want taste and manners in receiving distinguished
strangers, and however liberal the New York
Herald may be in its offers Of subscriptions, we
trust that the Prince will not attempt to run the
gauntlet of New York reception. One would
have thought that at Washington, where the men
in authority have seen foreign courts, where there
il no unmanageable rabble, where there are mill
tary to preserve order and decorum when necessa-
ry, some attempts would have been made to treat
the Japanese Princes with the tact and delicacy OF
true hospitality. On the contrary, the Japanese
seem to have been made a subject Of exhibition.
When they landed dirty little boys were suffered to
insult them by treading on their toes; they were
taken to public hotel and crammed into get OF
small rooms, where they suffered from the heat,
and where they were made the subjects Of the
keenest torture by nquisitive visitors. Strangers
intruded themselves into their rooms without
leave, asked impertinent questions and demanded
presents, good deal in the style of the. dirty
Arabs who infest travellers in the East, or the
equally dirty Indians of the Western plains.
The brutalities Of Washington appear TO have
been distanced however, by those of Baltimore
and Philadelphia. At the former city display of
fire engines got up for the visitors, who were
to witness it from the balconies of their hotel The
populace, however, with q rudeness of which un.
lettered savages would not have been guilty
cr0Wued Inc balconies, ana tne poor Japanese
were compelled to retreat. Worse remained, how
ever. Some of the iiremen were introduced to an
ambassador, and one of them actually put his wet
heavy cap upon the Princes head, and drove il
down with his hand-actually bonnetted him. Al
Philadelphia the scene was varied by consider.
able number of free fights, and the procession
passed through the streets distance of five miles
amidst the insults and jeers Of the population. No
wonder that the Princes off the next day and
that they begged not to be compelled to go through
another such an ordealin New York. In Difference
to their wishes it is said that they to have very
short route through the city of whose hospitality
the Herald boasts SO much. They are merely to
go up Broadway, from pier No. to Grand street
then to the BoWery, then to Union square, and
down Broadway to the Metropolitan. This is only
fsur miles, we imagine.
The New Workers have knocked off the Other
mile in Difference to the wishes of their guests. II
| is the last straw, the Gothamites doubt reflect
| that breaks the camel's back, and consequently
| the last mile that makes an Ambassador sick
Therefore, let four miles be the limit and make as
much out of that as you can. We have read some
| where that an American seaman many years age
was carried through Japan for public exhibition
| The Americans appear resolved to revenge upo1
| their present visitors the old outrage. The onl,
difference is that the Japanese did not profess any
feelings of kindness towards the unfortunate sailor
No doubt the Americans have spent large sum-
| OF money on the Japanese, and the New Yorl
Herald is right in boasting that they ready tx
bleed freely for receiving the Prince OF Wales.
| would have been more germane to the matter hat
| it been able to boast that they would give til,
| Prince Cordial friendly welcome, free from vul
| garity and rudeness. Perhaps they would trea
him better than the unfortunate Japanese, but w,
fancy he will not run the risk The jeopardy il
too great.