The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-11-08

happened in the history Of the country. The
Union may be preserved in spite of 1t. We
think II will; but we are prepared to expect
trouble. We have already one sign from
South Carolina, and this may be followed by
Others of more serious character.
The London Times and the New Yerk
Ditto.
The London TIMES INDUCES itself In q saw
age and characteristic attack upon the the citi-
zens of Richmond, on account of their cup
posed want of civility to the Prince Of Wales.
1t says latter travelling many Hundreds OF
miles In the West after being received WIN
rough, but sincere poli;eness, by the inhaoit-
ants OF prairie villages or the solitary
pioneers who are hewing their way gradually
through the forest, the Prince OF Wales, in
his journey East came to the capital of Viz
r,nia. an old English town, which contains
some memorials interesting to the traveller
Hare urged on by what impulse we know
not, but perhaps stirred up BY some Irish or semi
Jrish dsnaagcgue, a disorderiy mob treated the
Prince and his party in a manner which was
not only violation of courtesy, but OF their
rights as travellers under the protection of
The law. The Prince, and his suite, went
with The Mayor OF Richmond to visit the
yoee.dsd 10 press the party and to subject them
to every kind OF insulting remarks. 1t must
be promised that nowhere in the Free States
is there TO be found, among the native Ameri-
cans at least, a eiass so ,uDsaniy and depressed
az ar, the lotcsr class of ,rhitss al The South
These WORTHLESS are the drinking, staggering,
swearing, gambling, revolver and bowie
knife using gentry, who furnish so many
4. nvAnrQ nd u % n IL
most come TO be taken as the type of Ameri-
can character. Fancy mob OF four or hve
hundred slave dealers, hoIse-dealers, small
planters, liquor store.keepers and loungers.
together with, probably, a large sprinkling of
hlackcuardism from Ireland, and you will
nrobab,y have the crowd that rushed after
the Prince of Wales and the Duke OF New
castle Accustomed 10 uncontrolled domin-
ion over the streets, ready for any deed OF
violence. from ihs Earring and feathering Of
an sbolitionist, TO the burning OF an insur-
gent negro. q Southern mob is capable of be-
is led away by any worthless fellow who
gets its ear, and when once excited, is soon
beyond the control even Of its leaders. 1t APP
pears that at Richmond the crowd began by
being merely curious and jocose. They pushed
in, and allow ths Princes party no privacy
whatever
We reed not point out to our readers the
gross miss statements with which this extract
abounds. The insult to the Prince OF Wales,
IN the capital of Virginia, it is we'll known to
every citizen. is a fabrication out of the whole
cloth. We dislike to characterize 1t as 1t de-
serves, but we know not any form of speech
which can other wise describe it. In good old
English, then, it is q liza deliberate, mali
cious, unallcyed, and unadulteratsd lie. In
the mouth of the London Times, it is only a
lie at second hand. 1t is indebted for it to its
American nanesake in New York, whose i'm
agination, poetical though ii claims to be,
never scars higher than the invention of a lie
We ascribe TO the London Times only good
natured desire TO believe US as bad as We are
represented.
The case Of our Irish fellow citizens, We
take the liberty to say, is little hard. Not
feeling disposed TO recognize the justice OF
that system which has been pursued to-
wards their native land by the govern.
ment of which the Prince of Wales is TO be
one day the head, and the result of which has
been poverty, rags, and starvation at home
relieved only by perpetual exile, they did not
consider themselves called upon to express
sentiment which they did not EN- terrain, by do
ing him any kind of homage. They therefore
abs stained almost entirely from appearing in
the crowd that followed his footsteps while
he was here. They had no curiosity about
him. and they felt no love for him. So far as
they were concerned, they cared not whether
he came or went. All they were careful of
was 10 keep out of the way, that they might
not be supposed. by any possible implication,
tn demon 6 n an Hoo
ton which they did not feel. Perhaps they
were wrong. Perhaps the Pole when he
comes here, ought to forget that his brother or
his father is buried in the deserts of Siberia
Perhaps the Irishman ought not to remember
that. if his country is the poorest, instead of
being tas it would be under free govern
ment,> the richest in Europe, it is owing to
the 81 stematic oppression of seven centuries.
All We can say is, that it was natural in the
irishnen. But to charge them with having
either insulted the Prince of Wales. or with
having insigated any body else to insult him,
is, we really think, a little hard, considering
the pains they took to avoid giving any pre-
text for cayl in that respect. 1t might have
been that some of them, more hotheaded than
courteous, might have CHANGED to give way to
their feelings. hen they saw the heir of that
They took care not to do it. They kept away.
We DO not believe there were one hundred,
among the many thousands who thronged The
streets TO get sight of the Prince. To charge
The Irish, therefore, with Offering any indig-
nifty TO him, is an insult not less gratuitous
than it is gross.
The picture which the London Times draws
Of society in this city, exists only in its own
f3Ifhp inapiu4fiou Whap Was thar> over q,
mob in Richmond Who ever saw one! Who
ever heard of onel If there was no police to
keep off the crowd of eager gazers, it was
because there was no need oft, aud because the
Duke OF Newcastle expressly desired that there
might be none. Not u single man, in popu-
lation Of forty thousand, ever dreamed Of
harming or insulting the Prince. Their Gu
riosity might possibly, appear impertinent to
the Prince. Bat what else could he expect
Has he not been accustomed to be gazed at all
his life Had he to learn here, for the first
time. that he is shoe, and will always be a
shoic, let him go where lie may Does he not
know that this is condition inseparable from
MS rank and position In a word, is he man
OF sense. or natural born fooll
To the New York Times we are indebted for
TINS attacK upon us. That paper sent q re-
Poieef mere ior the express purpose of faIsify.
Ing every thing he saw. He uttered four dis
tihct faisehoods, besides giving false coIoring
even 10 the small modicum Of truth which he
published. The Duke OF Newcastle publicly
contradictec his statements. Yet the New
fork Times endorses them still, and repub.
iishes the onslaught of the London Times win
a caption OF its own, to attract the atten,ion
Of its readers. "The Richmond Mob and the
lrish Insult is the heading of the articIs n
question, added by the New York Time, for
the London Times never head Its articles