The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-09-03

present as representatives of the press that occa
sion deemed it due, out of respect, TO the varou.
| papers which they then and there represented, "a
leave the room in body, at a certain stage of the
evening, Immediately after they had done reporting
the speech of Mr.. Evans, Of Maine.
As this was, or ought to have beea great public
and liberal occasion, it is due the public that they
should be made acquainted with the facts that caus
ed this conduct on the part of the reporters. The
only explanation that has yet been given of this mat
ter we find in the following -
The representatives, Of the press present treated
by the Committee Of Arrangements with lack Of cour
stances under which they attended Courier and En-
qurer.
The gentlemen who represented the Press having been
placed by order of the Committee at the nconv enient side
liable, and treated rather ntruders than otherwise
thought due to themselves to mark such conduct by re-
porting more than absolutely necessary 10 come
before the public and therefore all left the
| as Mr. Evans had done speaking.-Jounai Of Com
| merce.
The Committee seemed TO have disposed matters in
orderly though scale, in many respects OF
and contemplate lliberaty, which would have
done infinite credit unusually sordid keeper OF shi
ling refractory We publish the speeches OF Lord Ash
burton and Mr. Evans for their in rinsc worth and their
interest TO the public. We omit the others, which were
merely in fuflment of the arrangements OF the Commit
| tee, from feeling Of self respect. Tribune.
The remainder of the proceedings OF the evening do
give. for the sufficient that the committee Of ar.
rangemens and stewards treated the representatives OF
the newspapers, who present. with such gross in.
dignity that they in body and efMorning Post
AT the close Of Mr. Evanss address, the gentlemen
nected with the who to report the proceedings
len for the that the Committee OF ards
had not provided them with the accommodations they
deemed necessary and proper or decorous. ErPress
These all the reasons, yet that have reach
ed the public eye; and probably they are all that
ever would have appeared had not MIR James Brooks
of the Express. after he had been insulted in the
persons OF his reporters who were present. and who
deemed it due their self-respect to leave the
rooms meanly sneaked into the room from behind
pillar, where he had been playing "peeping Tom OF
Coventry" during the evening, lent himself to do the
diriy-work ofthe Committee, and then published
the following contemplate paragraph by way OF
miserable apology
The reasons the Reporters give, we should not
have felt to be sufficient reasons if had been in
their places-and it was hardly proper excuse, or
one becoming the dignity due their own responsible
and highly honorable situations. -BOoby Brooks.
What notions of honor or selfrespect Mr.. Brooks
may have, or what he may deem Sufficient
sons' for resenting an insult few people know. and
no one cares. But whether the representatives Of
the press acted as became the dignity due " their
responsible and highly honorable station" this
publican community can readily Judge, by reading
INC ioHoWlliS Pidlu IdCtS VI TIE CASE
AS soon as it was known that the treaty was con-
cluded, the press othis city the first to propose
great public festival 10 Lord Ashburton, and Mr.
Webster, in which the officers of the French Anne
rican and English navies here, should be included
as guests. They demanded that the affair should
be given on broad and liberal SCALE without dis
ncton of party, or set, cliques, sects OF any
kind II was national occasion, and II was due TO
The honor of the city and country that the matter
should be done on a liberal national scale. Now,
mark what followed.
Lord Ashburton's time was limited. He could
attend but public dinner in this city, and he
fortunately fell into the hands of purse proud self
styled arstocratic clique, who mseraby marred the
whole affair from beginning to end. They first,
lin return for the liberality shown them at the
Morpeth dinner0 insulted all the respectable TO-
reign merchants here, by declaring that foreigner
should be on the COMMITTEE, epen such
sio,,-a dinner given TO the representative of TO-
reign power. They next determined to make the
thing very aristocratic and exclusive by declaring
that they would allow but 2OO and these must be of
the Elite of the cty-ihe sef-styled " merchant
princes"-to be present on the occasion and to en-
sure this result they placed the tickets at $40 each,
and would only sell them to certain favored indivi-
duals of their own clique. They next insulted Lord
John Hay, and the officers of the Warspte, who
brought Lord AshburtoR TO this country, by not in
wiling them until the rery morning of the dinner,
(Thursday) and afterwards had the coarse brutality
TO try to make up for this gross neglect by offering
Lord John Hay as many tickets he manfed for has
friends the true dollar and cent principle-and it
was singular that he was not offered hundred
shares of some bubble stocks, by way of making up
for the neglect and insult.
And that there may be no mistake about this mat.
ter, here give the names of this celebrated COM
mtee, furnished by one OF the members thereof
COMMITTEES OF ARRANaEMrNrs.
Jas. D. P. Ogden, VIM. B. Astor,
Jas. @. King Benz. l.. Swan
Prosper NJ. Wetmore, George Griswold,
Stephen Whitney James Lee,
Cornelius W. Lawrence, Robt B. Minturn,
Theodore Sedgwick.
STEWARDS.
David C. Golden Isaac Townsend
George w. Blunt, Saml Ward
John D. Van Buren,, VIM H. Aspinwall,
Mortimer Livingston.
The next, and with the exception of their insult
TO the Presidency the browning act of folly, on the
part of this committee, their conduct to the
press. In common with the proprletors Of the Cour
Ter, Journal of Commerce, Tribune, Sun, and Morn
ing Post, applied 10 the committee for tickets for
excluded from the dinner with the full details Of it,
ut the time rendering the price of the tickets,
not choosing TO be under any obligation. In reply
to this we given to understand that the repre-
sentatves alike of the press and the public would
not need tckets-that they would be admitted as a
matter of course as guesfs-and In accordance with
this our reporters were furnished with the following
note, as was no doubt all the other reporters;-
3ist AueusT, lsl9.
MEssRs. SrETsos & Co., of the Aston House.
Will please furnish accommodation for the reporters Of
the New York Herald at the dinner to Lord Ashburton
JAS. 2. OGDEN,
Chairman Com. OF Arrangements.
To the right understanding Of what followed we
must give the following plan Of the tables at the
dinner