Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-12-05
Mr.. Price 70 Mr.. King. 80,
NEW YoRK, Dec. I'd, 1887.
, the honor of receiving yours of Friday morn

bn:-l have the honor OF receiving yours Oh rssy o@
With the greatest dsposss to find satisfactory expsna-
nc Of TUESDAY last al The public dinner the House,
unable understand how any private
merely 70 some Of editors sufficient warrant
tor abrupt o sn as m ana
but rights which had purchased at the highest price IN e
among about reporting had no
reference to me- was there private lread as
tickets $40 eachl was" public dinner 10 be given 10
Mr. for whom feelings 81 ana
great intellectual banquet before me- iet general
guests Talents ofhe highest order polished NAN
great sloquence were In my estmaton stronger
the intellectual not the physical that induced me to
had listened Of the distinguished men in Eng
the pleasure here presen, on the very grounds
put forth by the Committee guaranteed and IN ny
among educated Occupying that position was abruptly
aceo,tsd by and every right Of which was IN s
unpr cedented and abrupt my conduct-Iny manners
right and proper such occasion there might have
been for abrupness But no such ground
text or excuse some unknown mysterious
taken to ps The b ee
nation was SO mysterious and unknown INA, Sacn OF noe
be EDITOR Of the The number
invade IL the next day. by actually reporting tue pr
SO sacred to be violate by The curiosity
of vulgar world who hac not the honor OF seat on
With as much propriety might the respectable committee
have determined that who wore blue CO shoud De
present that tabetbat man who eat with his knife
could he therehat gentleman Of SIX feet two nches
$40 poands ayordupos could not admitted all The rule
of the committee affecting the Iteectua portion Of me ban.
auet reasonable these would be regulating the
physical and social went there as an independent gentle
mani went there passionate admrer O. talent and genius
- there person acquainted with the hzbitndes
social el had memory and Judgment capable o. reco
lectng and reshng the wisdom and eioquence that mg a
speakers How the colniHtc,o
organ to debar me from exercising hess Ia
you my mosey and then seek 10 prevent me from
listening what had paid for a, the highest rate How
barring relating that eoquence that wit, ana that
wisdom my friends whe did not enjoy the same oPpotu
Tbe determination the committee therefore vans and
had purchased for cas-to prevent from exercising
nta faculties Of recollection and admiration WHICH ere al
lowed TO others. II haa vain and rideuous-t
was violent and unjusfable attempt interfere with the
rights @ a by +, n. Sse 81 ddsr ps
headrghts which had purchased at me iu value ana oo
Your abrupt aterruptsn OF the enjoyment OF these rights
therefore, alone soecsn In manners ON your parts
owing violent unusfabe attack upon the
laws Of society and the rules TO exist am"ng
the authority invisible committee each OF whom assume
&c evnsd & Yet avn charitable in my Uasmss,
and moderate in feelings towards you as an ndvdnaL-
no, believe Tia, you We're aware Of strange mproprey Of
your conduct towards that occasion Acting undtr INC
TO think that such distracted ceanes OF
vision and equity Of But % n 20 es
back epose you must the necessity OF an immediate as
"a i md purchased r rgh, Of social equality
Ireque therefore ofyou personally full and satisfactory
explanation Of this natter in such genie
has right TO demand of another. JOSEPH PRiCE.
Mr.. King to Mr.. Price.
Mr. KING having said all he has 10 en- the subject 10
which Mr. Prices letter of this morning relates declines any
fur thrr correspondence.
Office ~ Y. Americ iR-Saturday
Here rests the affair for the present. What further
steps Mr.. Price may take we have no means OF know
ng As far as the public is concerned it is matter OF
little consequence whether "Cassio kills Roderigo or
loderigo Cassio Ii is but far TO say that Mr. Price
has hardly left an inch Of ground for Mr.. King 10
stand upon, and if the Committee assume the same
position, they will be crowded tho three thou
sand angels, whom holy ST. Anthony of Padua saw
1t one moment dancing on the point of cambria
needle.
Seriously and calmly, however, the conduct OF
Charles King must appear TO every unpreIudced man,
one efhe greatest ouragcs on good manners that we
ever remember TO have heard Of The pretext Of not
permitting report to be taken receives the lie from
the very conduct of the self same Charles King the
next day. But ifsuch pretext was not invented on
the spot il then involves the Committee In one OF
the most fragrant socisms in good manners, IN afres
land, that ever took place. In England, among all
parties wings and tories, conservatives and radicals
all such public dinners open TO the press. The
proceedings Of the Bank Of England, or Of tory din
ner or of wing festival are equally public affairs
under that monarchical government. For the first
time in the history OF parties on this continent we
see the ordinary customs among gentlemen, and the
eternal liberty Of speech and OF the press openly and
ruaely violated at and the same moment Was
not the Astsr Dinner public affair l-advertised as
such9 We do not and cannot believe that the highly
respectable portion Of that Committee, such as the
Hen. Ogden Hoffman, M. c. Patterson, Esq, Philip
Hone, Esq. and few others will ever sanction the
insolence Of such man as Charles King.
Such conduct may be congenial TO those whs don't
pay their differences in Wall STREET.-THE those who
have been for ten years crssadng round the world in
vain to get fight ost Of somebody-to those who are
capable Of being the confidential agents Of Rathbun
of Buffalo, in order 10 beray HIM TO his credors-bu
TO the respectable gentlemen on that Committee, such
assumption-such folly-such unbearable insoence,
can only be disagreeable and revolving.
We trust therefore, the committee will disavow ths
act Of Charles King and leave that parsonage solitary
and alone in his glory. The Of propnety which
exists in this great community-whch prevails
among all whigs-wl never sanction the insolen
manners and ridiculous assumptions Of such man