Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-13
The Prinoe's Visit to His Canadian Do
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The peaceful visit of the Prince of wales,
which began to fll the Canadians with |
boundless Joy, and which even excited all
flunkeydom among their democratic neigh
bora, to try to get some kind of recognition
from aIiving eighteen-year old Prince, has
resulted in intheexcitementofar religiousfaction
which even endangers his personal safety,
and threatens to drive him from his mothers
dominions to the United States for refuge.
The strife is limited entirely to the Protest
ant faction, or Orangemen, as their organ
ization is called. At Toronto before the
arrival of the Prince, they held a public
meeting and resolved that it was essential
that the Prince, the son of the head of
the Protestant Church, should be received
as the Protestant Prince of Protestant
Kingdom. They also expressed their dis
appreciation that he had visited Catholic
benevolent institution at Montreal.
In order TO set the matter right, they re-
solved to assume the leading part in the re-
ception at Toronto, in full regalia, and with
all the notices, inscripions banners and
music that additionally belong to the an
cient bloody feuds between Orangmen and
Catholics. In short, they determined to
show the Catholics that they were con-
quered people, by exhibiting the Prince to
them as an Orangeman. The guardians of
the Prince determined that he should receive
no partisan demonstrations, but the Orange
men determined that he should be received
as an 0rangeman or not at all. Accordingly,
when the steamer, bearing the Prince and
suite, reached Toronto harbor, it put about.
The enraged Orangemen then resolved to
take the railroad and follow him along the
shore, so as to meet him whenever he landed.
This, however, they did not carry out.
Perhaps they found it impracticable. But
they sent messages to the Orange Lodges in
other TOW ms, exhorting them to turn out and
defend the Protestant religion.
After leaving Toronto, the steamer ap-
preached Belleville, but finding the Orange
men there organized for a reception, it con-
tinued on, presenting the interesting spec
tacle Of Prince driven from his own do
minions. Afterward, on promise that the
Orangemen would disband, the Prince and
suite returned to Toronto; but the irrepres-
sible faction contrived to make their banners
most conspicuous. The next day being
Sunday, the Prince went to church. The
faction had constructed an Orange arch on
the principal street, decorated with their
colors and mottoes, and with the portrait of
King William, expecting that the Prince
would be obliged to pass under it on his way
to church, and thousands assembled to see
this triumph of the true faith. But the
Duke of Newcastle ordered the coachman to
drive through another street. This enraged
the mob While the Prince was in church
they hooted and yelled all manner of in
sulting language. They brought out from
the Lodge all the Orange insignia. A ban
ner with Orange mottoes and war-cries was
hung so that, had the Princes carriage
passed under the arch, .the banner would
have brushed his face.
When the Prince came out of Church they
made rush for the carriage, to take the
horses from it, and drag it under the arch.
BY the assistance of the Police and the de-
termined and rapid movement of the
Princes party, they reached the carriage,
amid cries to seize the Prince and force him
under the arch. The mob gathered round
the horses, but by the orders of the Duke of
Newcastle the coachman piled the whip,
and, rearing and plunging, thehorses cleared
their own way and the cortegs escaped.
Certainly this is pleasing style of hospi-
tality to true Prince from loyal subjects.
The Catholics seem sufficiently satisfied with
this exhibition as it is, and treat it with
supreme indifference. An outbreak of
religious partisanship which only needs to
be met in the same spirit by the other fac
tion, to develop into the most rancorous
and bloody civil war, is feature which was
supposed to have gone out with the "dark
ages" and it is calculated to clip the
plumes Of our boasted progress, and to re-
mind us that human nature is always the
same; and that the idea that we have pro-
gressed 30 vastly in civilization beyond our
ancestors, is quite as unfounded as the other
and paradoxical idea that in ancient times
people were better than now, that disease
was comparatively unknown, that men were
giants, and lived 1000 years, and that they
innOcently practiced all sorts of things which
are criminal by our code.
The Democratic County Ticket.