The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1839-10-26
THE METROPOLIS.

THE METROPOLIS
In our last we gave our readers some account
of the proceedings which took place in the recep-
ton Of the President Of the United States OH his
return TO the duties Of his Office from his late ex-
curson 10 the State Of New York In preparing
that accountfor the press, we were very far from
intending to throw the slightest dsrespect upon
the Chief Magistrate, or upon lis numerous re-
spectacle friends at the seat Of Government. We
knew that all such friends lanented as much as
we did the extreme folly Of those who got up the
idle pageant and the worse than folly that tempt
ed them to the adoption of such course as was
well calculated to cover the whole affair with rdi-
Guile and contempt. The efforts of the exclusives
were eminen,y successful. The actors in the
silly display were greeted, from the Capitol to
the Presidents House, with one universal stream
of laughter from the spectators-Whigs and De-
mocrats-who numbered about twenty to one
those who formed the escort. Our object
was to rebuke these who, in gross and undis-
guised spirit Of mischief, attempted to stir up in
this city all the elements of party strife and make
the President himself an unwilling party in their
contemplate scheme.
The Metropolis which seems to be The favorie
organ of The foreign portion of our population,
and has proved itself to be worthy successor in
that high Office to Madam Royals Huntress, has
worked itself up Oh this occasion 10 an extraor-
binary pitch of fury, and has poured out the
vials of its wrath on our devoted heads What
boua
bly, we can scarcely imagine, unless in our in
nocence, we showed Up the sort Of Democrats
who made such an exhibition Of themselves in the
wake Of the publishers of the Metropolis and a
few Of their co-workers III iniquity. When we
wrote the article which has drawn out the ire of
the Metropolis, such flies the carriage Wheel
occupied no part Of our thoughts; we pitched at
higher game. But we have. since learned that
the President concurred fully with lis in our OPT
Mon of his escort. Glad to escape from the
"rabbe rout'' that surrounded him, he very I'M
tremendously left those who followed, or led him
to his door-the foreign orator and all--on the
outside Of it. We can; therefore, auadcr the cir
cun,sfances, excuse the Metropolis for this little
ebul,ion of spleen. Like many military heroes
we have known, who have with all humility borne
the kicks and cuffs lavished upon them when
abroad, they let out their pent-up vaor in abusing
and beating their wives, Children and servants
when at home. If the President affroned YOU.
gentlemen, stand up to him like men, and don't
turn your artillery upon little fort. Tell him
that the next time he goes abroad he may get
home the best way he can, without your demo-
cratic" assistance-that you will never, no never,
drum up the " democracy to escort him again
that you wont. We dare say the President will
be gerry sorry, but, peradvenllre, he will not cry
Our foreign orgali says that the Nafiuc fine
rican is the " child Of forty fathers That is .
very great mistake. The Native American is the
child Of eleren hundred fathers; and, we are in
formed, .lat the proprietor Of the Metropolis who
assisted al its birth, offered to take upon himself
the oie Of dry-nurse to the babe. The fathers"
however, unwilling to place their progeny in
"un(athlul and incompetent hands, rejected the
profered services. The result proved his pene-
tralon The rejected having since entered into
foreign service, has given evidence to the world
that he has still enough Of the Hessian in him to
fight on any side for pay.