WELCOME TO THE PRINCE; The Last Storm at New-Orleans; Editorial-The Reception of the Prince of Wales (10/12/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 10/12/1860

[Homer_J_Simpson]

The spectacle presented on Broadway on the ever-memorable day of the Japanese reception was fairly outdone yesterday. America triumphed in the weather, which was as bright as October in his best humor could make it, and a feeling more generous than mere curiosity emptied New-York into Broadway. From the Battery to Grace Church the great highway was one vast trough of humanity, animated, glittering, good-natured, and bent on making the best of all possible greetings to the coming Prince. By common consent everybody's business seemed to be sacrificed to the pleasure of everybody else; stores became theatres for the nonce, and high noon a careless holiday. All stoops, windows and roof-tops were groaning under human freight; all the side streets were blocked with vehicles, and on the roof of every coach or omnibus, with straining necks and staring eye-balls, black swarms of humanity clustered. But to relieve the monotony of this picture, never before have we seen such a surplusage of bunting, such a superfluity of flags, such strange combinations of quasi-national colors and designs, as were protruded on poles out of all the windows and hoisted over all the chimney-tops of aspiring trade. One might have thought that Wednesday had been set apart by law as grand washing day for all the flags on Manhattan Island, and that yesterday was prescribed in the same statute as the day for drying and bleaching them. We believe ourselves within the mark in stating that between the temple of which Brown is Sexton, and that Battery now in the occupation of peaceful immigrants, there were assembled within and without the houses, at the very least, 200,000 human beings.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

First session: November 21, 2015. Last date to add: Sometime in the future.
Reading: Self-assigned. Recommendations made and welcomed.

Posting history, in reverse order

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Welcome to the Prince: Extraordinary Demonstration – 2-6
Destruction of the Propellor Mount Vernon – 6
The Last Storm at New-Orleans – 6-7
Editorial: The Reception of the Prince of Wales – 7
Editorial: The Presidency-The Forlorn Hope of the Democracy – 7-8
Editorial: Growing Strength of the Union in the South-Decay of Fanaticism – 8-9
General City News – 9
Base Ball: Enterprise of Bedford vs. Eureka of Newark – 9

[Alas Babylon!]

Of course that storm in New Orleans was a hurricane. Note it wasn’t called that, didn’t have a name, and wasn’t tracked by the National Hurricane Center or even the 1860 equivalent of Free Republic’s NautiNurse.

Yet here we are 160 years later, and they say the “extra” hurricanes this year are extraordinary, and proof of Global Warming/Climate Change, and we’re all going to die unless we stop living well in the 21st Century, with Earth destroying fossil fuel power plants, automobiles, food for everyone and air conditioning. Oh, and complete control to socialist elites in government. Only that will stop hurricanes.

So they can say we never had hurricanes 100s of years ago. Just “Storms”.