Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-09-11

take" especially when il is at take and when San
dy Welsh acts caterer and cuisine For the truth
Of this statement we can confidently appeal TO the
palates and opinions of oss worthy Mayor to say no.
thing of his clerk brother Brooks (who has Toasted
upon the fat of more lands than one including the
delicious desserts dealt out to him by the fat monks Of
Mont ST Bernsrd) Alderman Smith, who does
infinite credit to good keeping, for he always looks
the picture Of good health, and good humor, -our
truly esteemed friend Horace Greedy, of the New
Yorker, who can digest good dinner with as much
ease as he can digest difficult argument-and last,
but not least, our unworthy selves-for all thus
named present at the dinner, served up to the
National Typographical Association in Sandy Welshs
very best style, on Saturday night at Knickerbocker
Hall. 49,
The sleepy editors of the sleepy Wall street papers
generally were not there, and for our own parts
decidedly doubt whether theirroom was not more adj
vantageous than their company; but be that as it
may, enough good fellows were there to compose
most "goody companie," and to furnish such an in
ellectual banquet as might well deserve the denomi
nation of a "feast of reason )" besides which there
was powerful flow Of SOUL well as of wine, which
did not sibside until ten or eleven at night.
The valuable ends aimed at by the members of the
Typographical Association viz to "elcvate the cha
racter of the profession we'll known and have
been so often told the public that shall speak
of them here other than to say that they have best
and warmes wishes for their welfare. What we have
to do with more particularly at this present writing,
is the dinner and we here declare that better ban
quet never graced board
In castle hall or cloister'a ase'
AT 5 O'clock tho chair was taken by Mr.. Brown,
the president of the Association supported by his no.
nor the Mayor, Mr. Brooks Of the Express, Alder
man Smith, and Horace Greedy of the New Yorker
There was abundance to eat, and more than all could
manage to drink-athough printers have most power
full swallows. The Mayor looked remarkably well ;
well does his Office agree with him, that he is evil
IDENTIFY growing younger every day the Alderman
looked well-aldermen generally look well; Mr..
Brooks looked pale but ntellecualbut his appetite
was good, and we never saw our friend Greelys dem
tai destreyers in finer order or in fuller opera
tion--the pigs and the ducks and the geese on the
table looked remarkably well-and the geese round
the table (what few there of them) looked AND
behaved on this occasion particularly WE'LL After the
removal of the cloth-(no, by the by, the cloth was
not removed) but after the eating was over and the
walters had gathered up, of the Fragments many bas-
kes full the President and his worthy Vice Mr. Fell
gave dozen very appropriate toasts which will be
published officially at future day. Mr. James Ander
son delivered with much feeling and taste well writ
ten ODE composed by himself, evincng considerable
talent and high range of thought Mr.. Davis sang
in his best style an ode by Greedy such as few but
himself can write, and then they drank the Mayor
We don't mean TO say that they swallowed him. for
locofocos as some of them are they are not well
trained enough to stomach or swallow wing Mayor
but they drank to his henor and to his honsr's
health, and to the health of his honor
Then.he Mayor adjusted his wig, wiped his lips,
and in coed set phrase delivered himself OF very
good speech, in which he declared that he did not
believe there better set of fellows in the toant
of humanity, when they were not out of sorts, than
the printers-and assured them on his honor, that
they conferred great homer on him by asking him
to dine with so honorable body of beings.
Upon this he gave toast, they gave tremendous
cheering as a matter of course-down sat the Mayor
up rose the president-out comes the health of Mr.
Brooks and up gets the latter gentleman expressly
TO return thanks. He was unaccustomed 10 public
speaking-w riting was his VOCATION and though lit
tie blessed with the set phrase of speech" he did
a round unvarnished tale deliver"
He said, what every body knows, that this was
great and glorious country, and that the press (more
than any thing else) had made sothat people might
talk as they would about the aristocracy of wealth
the aristocracy of Amos Kendall-the nristocrncy
OF banks and bankers-,he aistocracy Of cunning,
and its great pillar, the Undertook cabbage seller
and the arstocracy of the Kitchen Cabinet and the
Albany Regency-therc was but one true arisocracy,
which was the arisocracy of the Press. Then he
showed that the dark ages were SO called because
there was no press and no typos to "raise light"
to enlighien ihem-and the light ages vice versa.
He was printer himself-he was proud Of the pro.
fession and proud of the honor Of meeting so many
worthy members of it on SO worthy an occasion; and
then he gave tsast in which he hoped that the great
characteristics of Franklin, simplicity Of mind and
manners, integrity Of purpose and industry unring,
might distinguish every member of the Natio nal Typo
graphical ASSOCIATION.
Upon this they did applaud him ito the very echo
that did applaud again" Then Mr.. Smith and Mr.
Greedy made two short speeches and sentiments and
then "the ladies" God bless ihem) was drank by the
bachelors, standing. And then bachelor gave this
toast which we give because il is good
Individual FORTS composing theprofession; may
every solitary type or typo be speedily folded in the
EN- ~ of beauty, bound with bliss and locked up in
the chase of matrimony, TO ENJOY the blessings
the font of humanity, without whom the top and boil
tom Of the page OF human life would be helpless,
siurred over and machied and the middle part of the
form not only never go TO press, but be ioyless."
Then letter was read from James Gordon Ben