New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-21
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/ If the Candinmarro, instead Of coming FIRST to
/ 9an Francisco, had been taken around Cape Horn
and up to New York, it IS easy 70 fancy the resep-
Son that would have been given the Japanese.
TIE Aldermen would have appointed one commit
tee and the Councilman another to take charge or
and Worry them steam tug would have been
chartered 70 SO down the Bay and met The cor
Fette on the deck the Joint Committee wonId not
have been content with making less than three set
speeches. Next day there would be prfyzte re-
ception at the City Hall, when Mayor Weed would
dilate for the space Of full hour to The standing
Admiral on the Importance Of the commerce asouS
to be opened with Japan, the necessity Of rescafng
the city from the States control, and not 3 word
Of hs speech would lack fta bearing ON the Charles
and his suite would have Been mat BY depntasions
from the Chamber Of Commerce, the Societies and
the endless Commissions. The Admiral wcnid
would have been hurried up to the Academy Of
Medicine, the captain to the Navy Yard. They
would be dragged to Brady's for their daguefreo-
types, and Harper's, Frank Leslie's and the other
pictorials would serve up, with their names at
tached, all the old wood cuts in their possession.
Then would come grand parade Of fremen and
m pataG be9 Up wn ab e me
the faculty and Peter Cooper would make speeches,
and sundry members Of the Joint Committee would
flourish next morning in the papers as having been
nightly elevated The bill Of expenses would
count thousands Of dollars, which the Comptroller
would refuse to pay. Then they would go to the
courts, be gated By the city against its financial
fees on both sides. Finally, when liz memory Of
the whole thing had acquired an ancient and fsh--
like smell, the Legislature would step I'M put tho
whole bill into the tax levy, and would end tho
memorable Japanese reception. The visitors woaId
be forced to accept the attentions rendered them,
| under fear Of offending their hosts. They would
go of, satisfied that they had been among 3 trc-
nnendous set OF eaters, drinkers and
and seen some extraordinary architecture. They
| would leave, thankful for their escape, and prob
ably suspicious that they had been largely used for
the political purposes Of their entertainers.
II the Cdndtnnady70 had gone to Boston, q very
different greeting would have been rendered her
people. There would be Populations of speech
makers In abundance, of course. They would be-
taken to the public schools to Bunker Hill imonn-
ment, to the printing establishments, and then TO
such dinner! Oliver Wendell Holmes would get
off d delicious ode to the strangers with the by
phenated names !; the ADMIRAL would be seduced
into writing an original Japanese poem; Agassiz
would have hoh-nobbed with the doctor, and
grateful to Harvard and to literature ass d
At Baltimore they would have been edited with
magnificent ball, attended by ladies OF marvellous
beauty, lustrous with pearls and diamonds, and all
whose grandfathers signed the Declaration of ln-
dependence. $aza 8s8aass
Here they have been treated very much as gen
| tlemen from San Francisco would feel fattered to
! be treated in Kanegawa- shown all they express
| curiosity to see, shielded from any oppressive
handshaking, quietly entertained at sober dinner,
| conlpGmented with series Of resolutions which
will bear Interpretation, annoyed with only very
few brief speeches, and those while the process Of
the bills will Be paid by the Supervisors them
selves. The people have no tax laid on them. and
have reason to grumble at anything: the most
carping newspapers find nothing in the whole
affair to ridicule. The difference certainly IS not
to our discredit. If our visitors are gifted with
| the intelligence we have awarded them, they must
feel fattered with the sensible, hearty, tasteful
ception they have met.