Year: 1860

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THE PRINCES VISIT IN An ENGLISH
POINT OF VIEW.


A TRADE AGAINST AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS.


The London Morning Post, the government
organ, referring to the Prince of 1Wsles, visit
20 the United States, indulges in the following
- kplenetic efusion sgainst the Government Of
the United States: q. lr..g


While her Msjesty is enjoying the society of
her. daughter, and Prince Alfred is winning
golden opinions among the South Africans,
the Prince of Wales has passed from the colo
nial dOIniniOns Of England into Mr. Brights
model Republic Of the United States. Quite
new phase Of life, social and political will have
met MIN there. There he will see great and
fourishing people, rich, enterprising, and hos
pitable. He will see great mixture of races
and very curious combinations Of persopaf
qualities. He will see institutions and IN manners
corresponding to the peculiaritiss Of the peo-
pie. glance will show him that those people
are not like mis- own people, and those institu-
tions are not like the institutions of his native
land. He viii learn that America is not the
political paradise Of which we hear 50 much
from the member for Birmingham. -


He will find that with all the wealth, and
energy, and fertile soil, and wide territory,
and abounding population, America is never-
theless one of the worst governed countries in
the world. lie will see great people 30
swayed and blinded by an abstract idea of
liberty and equality as to be practically inca
pablo Of realizing the corresponding concrete,
and compelled therefore to submit to the
harshest Of all despotisms-the despotism of
numbers. He will find all thoughtful people,
all the moneyed interest, all the professional
men, all the substantial bone and sinew of the
country, longing above all things for the bless
ing Of a strong Government; and most of all
for such a change in their Constitution as shall
provide them with a permanent remedy against
Governments that are weak and incapable.
He will see the highest Office of the State 30
shorn of its prerogatives by inferior dictation,
so stripped Of its dignity by the leyeling infu-
enc of the mob, so hampered by defective adj
ministration and party opposition, that no
decent man who has a social or political opinion
to lose can be found to accept It.


The Presidentship is practically going beg
ging. Our Prince will, We trust, be allowed
to see the slave States as well as the free He
will see there that the virtue attributed in this
country to popular representation on the widest
scale is not favorable to the protection of
equal rights, and that men who are singularly
proud of their own freedom contribute to keep
millions of their fellow creatures in slavery.
In the presence Of these astonishing moral
and political phenOmens our Prince will learn
to value more and more the we'll balanced con.
stitution Of his native land, and he will read
IN the i'll success OF American government of
what changes England must beware if she
A00p ucE pldSc duOUR QdUOu5


But We must not sean American institutions
too freely just now, for transatlantic friends
are doing their best TO show overwhelmingfy
their respect for the principle of royalty and
the person of our Queen. They are according
TO the Prince all the honor, hospitality, and
friendliness in their power with unstinting hand
and earnest heart The people of England re-
gard the receptionof the Prince in the United
States with deep interest, and will not be slow
to prize at its true value every demonstration
offriendly attachment TO this country, and will
rs warmly return it when an opportunity occurs


The Times undertakes to rebuke this disgrace
ful efusion Of the Government organ. 1t says:


The time is particularly inoppOrtune for this
splenetic efusiOn on what the writer calls "Mr
Brights model republic" The Prince of
Wales, it was known before he left England
would not return home until he had paid a
visit TO the United States, to which he had been
invited by the Chief Magistrate of the Union
in a letter full of gallsntry and real politensss
addressed to his royal mother. The Queen ac-
cepted the compliment TO her con in the spirit
OF the invitation, and by this time the people
of the greatest city in America have given
vent to their joy at the arrival amongst them
Of Queen Victoris's heir in q way which must
have satisfied him of the cordiality of his re-
cep:ien- The Americans may not love royalty
as q system of political rule, but they have at
least the discrimination to appreciate the best
specimen Of the hereditary principle in the
person Of England 5 future monarch


Butthe cOurtly journal, while it holds up to
deserved respect and admiration the good
qualities of the British Queen, has the execra-
BILE taste TO denounce the country in which her
eldest son Is now enjoying generously extend
ed hospitality, as the "wOrst governed In the
worlu," because Of its republican rule There
are times when comparisons can be instituted
with advantage between the various forms in
which nations choose to manage their own in
ternsl affairs; but to select a time like the
present for an attack on the political institu.
tiOns Of the United States, simply because the
Queens SON Is at present receiving the felicita-
tions OF the citizens is, we hold, bad in manners
and disgraceful to the source from whence it
has proceeded


When gentleman asks a stranger to dinner
II IS not customary for the host to indulge in
self -glorifcation at the superiority of the fare
the furniture, the pictures and luxuries whic n
he places before his guest, or insult him by the
cool assurance that he cannot find such things
In bis own house. Yet the Morning Post is not
ashsmsd to do this at time when deIicaey and
self-respsct ought to have prompted something
like the semhlance Of humanity The tour Of
the Prince through Canada has not been an
uninterrupted series of triumphs. In the
upper provinces the Orangemsn have done
their utmost to mar its pleasure by blending
thistles with roses. At the insults thus puf
upon their heir apparent the citizens Of the
adjoining republic have been even more in
dignant than ourselves, and have assured his
Royal Highness that when he passes the from
or tier which separates his mothers dominions
from theirs, all such annoyances viii pease


his is trse politeness, and We have no doubt
viii be carried out to the letter. II is the yery
converse OF the system pursued by the Morn
ing Post, whose breach of decorum at such
time is akin to impertinence.


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