The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-09-07
Another Insulting Feature I'm the Ashbur-
nIaaer-XXha L. Queen OF the Sea

AHBURToN.
All hail to Britannia -henceforth we are one
And hail to our guest-her American son.
Der the Lion and Eagle now hovers the Dove;
To-day there's banquet Of national love.
Chorus.-O long live their glory, united and free
The Imperial West and the Queen et the Sea
The Cross of st. George and Columbia Stars!
oh, meier be they stand in unnatural wars:
With the Olive entwine them,-a sign to the world,
or freedom and peace, wherever uniurld.
Chorus-O long live their glory, united and free
The Imperial West and the Queen Of the Sea
By Ancestors blood--by the spirit they breathI;
By their timehonored laws,-by the rights they be-
queathh
BY the MUSES. the sages, of soulrulng powers
BY Burke and Chatham. though Briain's yet ours;
Chorus-O long live their glory, united and free
The Imperial West and the Queen of the Sea
By Letters, by Science, by all that can bind.
In links never broke, heart to heart, mind to mind
More than all, by our h,-that bulwark Of might,
Chorus.-O long live their glory, united and free
The Imperial West and the Queen Of the Sea
Bright day for the Earth when her freest lands
| In concord anew have plighted their hands.
One more to the compacts by Liberty sealed!
For the sake of Mankind to be never repealed
Chorus.-Then long live their glory, united and free
The Imperial West and the Queen Of the Sea
What! "Queen of the Scar Are we, then,
! Gas doubtless it intended) to consider this
singular song, and its most important chorus, as a
| commentary on the treaty just concluded between
Mr.. Webster and Lord Ashburton! If England Is
the Queen of the Sea, she of course possesses sole
power and sovereignty upon the wide ocean and if
she so, it's for the first time made pat of
treaty between two great nations, and brought for
ward in such grave document, in order to form part
and parcel of the law ofnaons hereafter. If England
claims to be the Queen of the Sea- is the first time
that this doctrine has been admitted by Americans,
and we thank God it is the first time that ever a
company OF Americans at great public dinner TO a
foreign functionary in their own any other coun-
try behaved so dastardly to acquesce in the i'm
pudent assumption or to spout till they hoarse in
proclamng such belief to the world at large.
Agaln-The revolutionary war which, by the
blessing of Providence established the independence
of tins great country, made pure republican
try, and not the "Imperial West" That war taught
in the first place, that on land as well as on sea,
no one nation was any longer to bear supreme or
queenly sway-that Great Britain was no longer to
arrogate to herself exclusive power or privileges
upon the ocean, The spell of her invincbiity was
broken forever by the iron courage of republican
America, Beaten back, from point to point by
raw, inexperienced troops, until at last two of her
choicest armies surrendered to the skill and bravery
of republicans. This at least taught her that she
could no longer rule upon land
The last war was occasioned solely by the inso-
lence of Great Britain in claiming this very sove-
reignty of the ocean; involving, las it Does the right
OF search and various other equally important mat
tiers, for which we fought and contendeds success
fully. 1t was them perhaps, for the first time de-
monstrated successfully that she was no longer to
bear supreme sway on the ocean. 1t was then that
her flag time after time was humbled to ours as the
Guerrero, the Java the Cyane the Levant the Mace
DOMAIN and scores of British ships of war were capur
edand sunk, or brought into our harbors. 1t was
then that this Republican West" taught her that
her sovereignty over the ocean was gone for ever,
and that the stars and stripes Of the young Republic
were hereafter ever 10 float proudly by her side.
But if we understand this song and its singular
chorus-(and songs sometimes speak more forciby
than all the treaties on earth)-then we have given
up all that we have fought for through two long,
bloody and expensive wars-given up all that our
Revolutionary Fathers achieved manfully; and
Lord Ashburton has accomplished more by this
treaty than all the armies, and naves, and treasure
of Great Britain combined against this country,
could by any possibility ever achieve. Such is I'M
questonably the tenor of this singular song which
was sung with such gusto at the $40 dinner by the
Merchant Princess of New York.
This is very strong point but it is one that most
clearly marks the motives, and shows the purposes,
and sentiments, and feelings Of the men who got up
that dinner. And this class OF society may rest as
sured that its members are marked for everlasting
Reproduction by the American peope-this class of
society is the same that got up the tom-fooery to
Dickens in this city-and the same class have now
got upths insulting dinner, and in the name of the
country, endeavored to disgrace the Chief Mapis
trate of the nation
\ hp rul 10 tho c,J
greatest enjoyment in acting as miserable toades to
European aristocracv and all those habits, man.
ners and feelings which they attempt to introduce
and TO pass current in this country, are copied from
the lowest species of what is termed beggarly ars-
tocracy" in Europe, and therefore are utterly
uncongenial TO the people of this country
And they may rest assured that in socety-at
all the watering places = wherever they 60
these poor contemplate cliques, who are the vulgar
oadles of European arstocrats and who only intro
duce here the worst features of that class, mark
ed tor reProbatlon by the American people.
As yet we have only had five names, Preserved
Fish, Theodore Sedgwick, Prosper M. Wetmore.
Mayor Norris Mr.. Martin, the importer (besides
the nine reporters,) who have come out like men.
and disclaimed being involved in the disgrace in
separable from that most extraordinary occasion
How are we TO obtain list of all those who were
present on that OCCASION and who Joined in the
grand chorus procaming Great Britain to be "Queen
of the SeaF' Did Commodore Perry sit still and
Join in this insult to the memory of his gallant
brotherl
Who will furnish us with complete or partial list
of these Merchant Prncesl Had they an utter
loathing' 10 the American flag, as they profess to
have had for the President in person, This point
ought to be known.
NEw YORK LEeIsLATURE-THE APpoRTIoNMENT-
THE CONFERENCE. joint committee of confe-
renee, the bill TO divide the State into Congress
districts, came TO an agreement on Monday, on all
the points of difference between the two houses ex
cept as TO the city of New York-the arrangement