Daily national Democrat., 1860-05-19
The Prince of wales---He is Coming.


as flying tourist but. at his leisure, as a
slow traveller and quick observer "Amer
ca" SAYS thnt sheet, sis not a country ofmu
ums and palaces to be done in so many days
in "a Murphy Handbook Its interest con-
sists in its people, in the phases through
which they are passing, in the political and
commercial activity which they display, in
their energy and restlessness their greatness
and their weakness" Although" it con
tnues, 1--WE cannot expect, that youth in
his nineteenth year should he able to appre-
ciate the American Commonwealth, yet We
feel sure that journey through the United
States and some association with the people
would not be lost labor OF kind and cour-
teous reception the son of Queen Victoria
may be very sure The interests of Ameri-
cans in the descendants of the former ruler OF
their country is second only to that of Eng
lishmen themselves, and, whatever may hav e
been formerly the case, the feeling is nov
one Of good will and sympathy. The Prince
OF Wales might find both instruction and re-
creation in q visit to the Atlantic cities.
whether it be New York in all its ambitions
and sran-new splendor or its more quiet ri
walls There is much to he learnt from a few
weeks of such travel-more than a royal
parsonage may ever afterwards have an op
portunity OF learning"
Very well might the Times suspect, as it
did, that young man only nineteen years
old" would not be apt to comprehend, at II
glance, the true nature OF great republican
! government like this, and the character Of its
people Our own opinion is, that the Prince
of Wales might remain in the United
Statesa whole year, and know but little of
its institutions or its citizens As TO the
former, even the great mind of a De Tocque.
Vile, (hy far the abest foreign observer OF
our country in its political aspect who ever
visited u.s. faied to comprehend them in all
their relations spirit and bearings He com
mitted fundamental errors in his estimate of
the relative powers of the different branches
of the Government, and Of the true scope
and limit of the Constitution. Unless thi,
young man only nineteen Yeas old" is Of
very diff rent pattern from that of his an
cestors the Georges, he will know about as
much Of the machinery of our government,
after a one years visit to the United States
as a ten year old boy would Of the propell.
ing power ola first class steamer, from look
ing at the revolving of its wheels or the mo-
tion of its levers. The Alpha of his alphabet
will be the Omega with him.
And as TO acquiring any knowledge of the
people, we venture to sag that he will know.
after all his observations completely nothing
lie will be beset during his entire soiourn in
America, by that portion Of our population
best known as the mushrooms and toadstools |
of society-the base-born and baser-bred |
snobocrats of the country. who everlasting |
ly thrust themselves forward to the exclusion |
of the cultivated and intellectual classes in
all places and circles where mere money can
carry them Such will be the society which
will open its doors to the Prince of Wales.
and fairly drag him into its embraces. The
sovereign intellects of the country may here |
and there jostle their way through the snob-
ish herd. and pay their respects to the rep
resentati, of the English Throne; but the
greater number will choose to remain in the
background. in company with their own dig
nifty and independence, rather than to be
found competeing with the shallow pates,
and ephemera of the hour, in
race for the smiles of foreign ari,tocrat.
We will venture to say that the first families |
of any of the Eastern cities that boast Of the |
honor of having received the Prince ,f Wales
parvenu's of the day-the ex-pedlars, ex
tnllow chambers, ex soap makers and soap
sellers, eX-shoemakers, et ID omne genqS, who
are fools enough TO he ashamed Of the honest
and honorable occupations hy which they
made their start in life, and who think the
magic touch of princes hand will knight
them as simon-pure "aristocrats" forever,
whether they have brains or not, and wheth-
er they talk the English language or some
jargon unknown to Murray or Webster. The
true aristocracy of the nation, the cultivated
and intellectual classes. will be those of whom
the Prince of Wales will see the least, and
the ignorant snohs will form the principal
feature of the picture of American society
which he will bear away with him to the
English shores. The like thing has happened.
on nearly every visit of any foreigner Of dis
tinction to this country, and that is the rea-
son the American people have been so un
justly estimated in the books of foreign
tourists. The upstarts and the toad-eatprs
rush forward, helter- skelter pell NELL and
are taken, with all their ignorance and vul-
garity and disgusting obsequousness for the
peopte of the United States; whereas they
are only the fungi Of our social system,
However, let the Prince of Wales come
on, and, if he hasn't wisdom enough TO pen
citrate through the surface Of our society to
the subsiratum Of its true worth and dignity
it will be as much his own misfortune as any
body's else.
DIsTINGUIsuED ARKANslAxs DEAD.-We
see by the Arkansas papers, that Rev Cephas
Washbourne, distinguished divine in the
West, departed this life, at Little Rock. on
the 18th Of March last.
short time afterwards his son, Edward
P Washbourne, young painter of exten-