The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1860-09-26
Geaerai Mems,

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| ders sHch necessary. The Prince will
! always stop at public hotels, and will
on no occasion where he can Go other
wise, travel in special railway trains.
| This last decision arises from no dem
ocratic impulse, but is based upon
prudential motives. A suspected la
! hility to accidents in eases of irregular
| trains upon American railways has de-
termined the royal party to seek a
supposed additional security, even
with the loss Of rigid seclusion. He
will necessarily be much secluded, and
"under Keepers" whose old fogy no.
lions are far behind the enterprise and
energy of Yankeedem. Newcastle
must look sharp. or the boys will
have his charge out some evening to
show him round u As the Brooklyn
City Netos says Could he travel as a
commoner, stand the brunt, take the
chances, and experience the vicissi
tudes of American hotel and car life,
he would learn more than Canada
could teach should he live there an
age. And if still further he could go
beneath the surface, and see the Uni
ted States and her people as they are,
he would be profoundly surprised.
He would find that what had been
stigmatized as boorishness, was the
expression Of life at once genuine and
healthy; that the very characteristics
that had been lampooned by malig-
nant satfrists, were the inevitable man
ifestations Of large and affluent SYM
pathies and the ILL., breeding about
which he had heard SO much, arose
from excess Of kindly feeling. Com
ing down among the masses-looking
10 upon the household life of America
~-he would find people, taken as a
whole, the most intelligent, the most
virtuous, and the most loyal to the
good and the true on earth. He
would find rural population, in all
shat constitutes social and intellectu-
81 life, the parallel of which the world
never saw, He would find entire
neighborhoods and towns, in which
every husbandman was gentleman,
and every housewife b lady. He would
end what in the most favored land in
Europe would be the boorish son of
peasant, graduating ct college Ami
versaries, and the daughters of the til
lefs Of the soil. playing marches on the
piane-fortes, and reading Racine and
Schiller In the original He would
Aad the operatives Of factory villages
sustaini9g courses Of winter lectures,
and the denfzens of the humblest ham,
let forming literary clubs He would
find afmost every child an attendant
at common schools. almost every adult
able to read and write, and almost ev-
cry citizen. however humble and how.
ever poor. verSed in the principals ON
which the government is based. He
would find the newspaper an omni-
present dispenser Of intelligence, and
che church shedding its benifcent light
apsa the Femotest places He would
dnd q people numbering nearly thirty
millions, growing great and prosperous
in spite of the exemptions of legisla-
tons, sAd the imbeeility Of statesmen.
He wonld find a nation essentially gov
erning itsef-asking no favors from
it's rulers except to be left alone. He
would find people that had existed
over seventy years, that had grown
beyond ell precedent, that had been
prosperous to an extent unequalled in
the past, existing virtually without
any army OF navy, He would find a
social life healthier, broader, more gen.
uiBe, more encouraging for the pres
ent, more hopeful for the future, than
he had ever seen OF heard of He
would learn that the glory Of the Re-
public consisted not In it's diplomacy,
its feats or arms, the purity of its pub
lie practices, the influence it exerts on
surrounding powers, but In the abili-
~ of its people to govern themselves
and protect themselves, not only with
ont the assistance, but In spite of 9TH
er Governments.
This and much more the young
Prince might learn, did he come among
us TO study and scrutinize US. But
he win not fail to see during his flying
trip, what is best and noblest of us.
His intercourse with US will be con-
fined to interviews with reception COM
mittces, aftersdinner speeches and ball
room firtations. He win meet snobs
and funkeys, who will beslaver him
With praise, and feed his national van
ity by disparaging comments on their
own country.