The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-11-21

THE Esd OF THE RICHMOND RooRBAcK ABcUr
-ax PRINCE or WAIns-Our readers will 10
collect that there has been . great deal OF
discussion pro and con az to the reception OF
the Prince OF Wales in the capital city OF the
Old Dominion. Some Of tho black republican
papers here insisted, In the face Of q positive
denial from the Duke of Newcastle, that the
Prince had been insulted by the "white trash, +"
as they delicately termed the people of Rich.
mond. This statement was eagerly snapped
up By the London Times and made the text
for very long and exceedingly savage attack
upon the South and is institutions. The Tines
declared, in substance, that the holding Of
slsves made man, Of necessity, . barbarian,
and that the people Of Virginia we're no better
than SO many Kacirs or Csmanohes. AL this
Was written after the NEW YORK HERALD, con-
tanning Newcastle's contradiction of the Rich
mond rumors, had been received In England;
and therefore 1t is fair to presume that the
London Tines was guilty Of intentional misre-
presentation OF facts in order to get an op-
portanit7 to abuse the Southern people.
Perhaps We could not expect az thiag better
from the London Times--a journal which, either
through ignorance or stupidity, OF malice, OF
all three combined, almost always treats US
unfairly; but we End that the Thunderer was
not alone in this matter. The false and libellous
reports as to the Princes reception at Rich
mond emalated from correspondents of New
York journals, and while one Of them remained
at Baltimore, the other was concealed in az
out of the way corner Of Richmond,
and saw none OF the events which he
attempted to describe. The HERALD had
several correspondents at Richmond, sHd
we need hardly cay that while the Prince was
Ia public view our attaches never lost sight Of
him. As the Duke of Newcastle knew Of no dis
courtesy towards the Prince, and as our report
ers neither saw nor heard anything of The kind
the stories which the London Times picked up
must have been coined By the black repubG-
can journals for party purposes. Thus the fair
fame OF Richmond, aud, indeed, of the whole
South. is sullied in the eyes Of all Europe, in
order to make little abolition capital for the
philosophers OF Spruce street and the saints Of
Exeter Hall
The people OF Richmond, however, have
come to the conclusion that this falsehood has
travelled long enough and far enough, and the
committee which received the Prince has
issued manifesto, which will be found else
where in this paper, and which gives the facts
in the case exactly as they have been hereto
fore stated byus.
Now, we call on the editors of the New York
Times and Tribune, and upon the London Times,
If they have any perception Of fair play left, to
print this statement Of the Richmond Committee.
They have maIigned that city and the glorious
old Commonwealth Of which it is the capital,
without any cause Whatsoever, and 1t is their
boanden duty to state the real facts in the
case, however humiliating they may be to the
Iibellers.
As to the London Tines and other British
journals which are fond Of preaching and
snufiiing about the recklessness las they
call iD Of American journalism, We cd
wise them to remove the very large beams
from their own eyes before they attempt to
pluck the mote from their neighbor's. We are
not given TO Boosting and now We only state
the simple truth In our own defence, that every
day brings out some new development calcu-
lated to enhance the value and affirm the cor
rectness Of the HEnarD's reports Of the Prince
of Wales visit. At the same time the blunders
and errors, both Of omission and commission, Of
the London Times correspondent, are plenty as
blackberries in their season. And finally, we
ask once more, what action do our cotem-
poraries, at home and abroad, intend to take
about this Richmond business. II cannot be
possible that they are so mean as TO pass II by
In silence,