New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-01
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nns,a.s MI Jaaanese Com rnissioners, now on
fheir ~ Il NV York, Ii seems that we sre 70
hs,,a ,,tia, distinguished visitors from abroad,
anr;nr ste present year. The Prince Of Wales
a. eidest son Of Queen Victoria, and the heir ap-
49, w VI Hi British to visit Her
Ms,estv Z colonial possessions in Canada this sum
my and win In ali probability extend his travels
q tho United States. It is announced also, that
III Prince Napoleon, nephew Of the great
Bonapartc. and cousin of the present Emperor,
contempates trip to this country in few
months.
So that ii il likely we shall have, in this country
1t orc and the same time, the japanese Commits
sioners, the Prince Of Wales, and the Prince
Napoleon. It will be becoming in US to extend
the hospitalities of the nation to them all-and we
trust the old public functionary.n as the Presi-
dent styles himself, who represents the national
dignity in the White House at Washington, will
be equal to the occasion" and see that our dis
tingushed foreign visitors are treated with all the
honors.
Congress has already made an appropriation for
the purpose of entertaining the guests from Japan
Let Mr.. Mason, Chairman of the Committee Of
Foreign Relations in the Senate follow it up with
another appropriation for extending proper eourte-
sizes to the other two. The cost of the thing should
not be thought Of on such an occasion-but the
cost will be mere trife. One-tenth part of an
ordinary days stealage from the Federal Govern
ment BY its employees, will more than cover all
the expense. If we undertake to do the thing at
all, let it be done handsomely. We need not be
frightened by the fiaDr that was raised about Kos
suth's bills. If Kossnth was an unworthy guest,
as many believe, that Is no reason we should close
our doors to all visitors. We owe something to
the proprieties of the occasion that cannot be
neglected.
We believe, too, that Old Buck, seconded by
his courtly Secretary of State, viii be able to do
the honors with distinguished success. Old Buck
has served as Minister at both st. Petersburg and
London, and General Cass served in the same
capacity at Paris during the high days Of Louis
Philippe. We may take it for granted, then, that
what these two don't know about the courtesies
and elegancies Of aristocratc society is not worth
knowing at all. Paradoxical as tile assertion may
seem, it is nevertheless true, that there is no
greater aristocrat In the world, under certain cir
cumstances, than a genuine unadalterated Demo-
GRAFT.
AT all events, we earnestly trust that our distin-
guished guests will not be consigned to the ques-
tionable Inequalities of Washingtonian hotels.
Suffer that cup to pass from them by all means.
"A weeks sojourn in any one Of them would give
our visitors a worse opinion of American society
than all ese-much worse than it is entitled to.
capacous tent, such the Illinois delegation pro-
posed at one time to have at Charleston, would be
better than that.
When our American dignitaries go across the
ocean, they are always treated with distinguished
consideration. Seward went over last summer,
and drank wine with Lonis Napoleon, and danced
minuet, we believe, with the Duchess Of Suther-
land. The Little Giant travelled all over Europe
few years ago, and came back immensely pleased
with his reception. Mr.. Fillmore and Mr.. Pierce,
both, after putting off the robes of the Presidential
office, and when they were simply private citizens,
visited Europe; and they were everywhere re-
ceived and entertained by the nobility Of the land
IN all seriousness, we hope, II these visitors are
recognized by our Government AS it is eminently
proper they should belt will not be done in a
shabby genteel way, but with hospitality befit-
ting their rank, and worthy Of great and power
full nation.