The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-31
DOM PEDRO.

There is no possible doubt that we are to
have q real Emperor among US next summer.
Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, has ex-
planned to his Parliament that he wants to
visit the Centennial exhibition, and that the
health of the Empress is such that an OPP
portunity of shopping in New York is i'm
peratively necessary The desired PERMISSION
to be absent from the Empire has been
granted, and the Emperor and Empress now
lie awake at night discussing the number of
trunks that they will require, whether over
coats and flannel skirts will be needed IN New
York, and what presents they can afford to
bring back to the children.
But one reigning monarch has ever visited
US. We have had one Bonaparte who
afterward became an Emperor, and another
Bonaparte who, having retired from business
as King of Spain, devoted his mind to cab
bages in New Jersey. King Kalakaua was,
however, the only professional King IN active
business who ever came to the United States
with his crown in his actual possession. But
Kalakaua, although a genuine King, was,
after all, a very cheap variety of monarch,
and no intelligent republican could find very
much solid satisfaction in gazing upon his
swarthy visage.
Many persons indeed refused to regard him
as real King, inasmuch as he kept his crown
locked up in his trunk, and they alleged that
he was only sort of electro-plate Monarch
manufactured by the missionaries, and not to
be compared with the genuine5E European article
No such doubts can be entertained as to Dom
Pedro, who reigns over country little lnfe-
rior in size to the United States, and whose
genuineness as an Emperor has been certineo
to by the Pope himself.
The Brazilian Emperor ought to meet with
warm reception. He is not only an honest
man, but an intelligent and liberal statesman,
and an accomplished gentlemen. Under his
rule, Brazil has presented the world with the
spectacle of a South American nation which
has made, and is making, steady progress IN
enlightenment and material prosperity. But
for Brazil we should probably have decided
that the South Americans are incapable OF
maintaining government which Is at once
strong and liberal.
Dom Pedro, as q constitutional monarch,
has certainly less power than is welded by
the military dictators who misgovern the
Spanish-American republics; but he has been
able to secure to his subjects the peace, pros
perity, and freedom which tyrants hkeRosas
and Francia hated, and which patriotic and
enlightened men like Mosquera and Sarml-
ento have failed to secure.
The visit of Dom Pedro to the United States
ought to bring about closer intercourse be-
tween the two leading nations OF the North
and South. Until very recently, the
trade of Brazil was monopolized by
English vessel, and even now the single line
of steamers which connects New York with
Brazil is composed of ships which fly the
English flag. The commerce of Brazil is
large and valuable and belongs naturally to
the United States If the visit of the Brazil
ian Emperor attracts the attention of our mer-
chants to the trade which they have SO long
ignored, and induces the N to transfer 1t from
Liverpool and London to New York, Balh-
more and New Orleans, We shall have abun-
dant reason for thanking Brazil for sending
to our Centennial one of the most harmless
monarchs of the century.-N ]. Times.