The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-19
ATTEMPT OF THE WINGS OF NEW
YORK TO DESTROY THE REPU-
TATIONS OF 100 DAUGHTERS OF
AMERICA.

The disgraceiul attempt Of several New York
papers to cast reproach on the characters of the
ladies who participated in the American pro-
cession at New York on Monday, now appears
to have been done by regular concert, and
according to eprevious arrangement" We
thought the grand secret would at length find
its way to the public, for murder will out,
though we did not so soon expect to be able to
lay the whole matter before our readers The
Wing presses, generally, have joined the cry
against the ladies Of America, and the whole
party is, and must be, held responsible for this
additional, and still more aggravated insult to
the nation. The Wing papers of New York
almost simultaneously attacked the ladies of the
procession, and the letter writers in that city,
for Wing papers abroad, echoed the vile asper-
sion. Some of these we have already noticed
The correspondent of the Philadelphia United
States Gazette uses the following language:
Correspondence of the U. s. Gazette.
New York, Monday, P. M.
The Indignation procession it is called, of the
Locofocos and Tyler is now FORMULATING the
| cv-besides number of fire boys and rowdes Of the
| dies-but -uch ladies' will not suIly your columns
with description-suffi, to say that unfortunately
all ouI large cities contain large number Of the same
| caste.
This is but fair specimen of the indecency
and moral lurpitude which, throughout, has
characterised The Wing presses, and we only
give it, because we are astonished that the edi-
tor of that paper should allow so scurrous an
attack on his country women TO appear in his pa
per, which is generally decent, at least. We
now ask the reader to peruse another article ia
ken from the editorial columns of the New Y ork
Evening Tatter, highly respectable, but en-
tirely neutral paper The Tattler says
"When it was first made generally known that our
citizens to have public demonstration Of feeling
the subject Of the national insult at the Astor
House dinner-and that this feeling was to be Known
in the getting up OF procession with iddies-a
scheme of mschiefand wickcdness fl xeJ upon to
cast odium the whole affair, by some scoundres
who, feel assured, though they belong to the Wing
party would receive scorn for such deed from their
own faction readily as from the Democrats. They
determined to bride number Of of the to1cn
and by certain under hand man1uvres, make them a
part Of the fc males in the procession They wen. to
several houses Of illfane and arranged matters as
they thought, in a fair tain of success They even
furnished funds 10 the women and particular direc-
tons given the prostitutes by thc o horrible and
depvaved wretches TO scatter fhenseipes among the
respectable (1milcs in the carriages-and attract as
much notice as possible from the bystanders during
the passage OF the spectacle The reader can easily
imagine for what purpose all this was intended"
Thus it appears that these very modest gen
tlemen of the Wing party actually appointed
committee to visit the brothes of the city of
New York, for the purpose of engaging num-
Der of the Cypreans to mingle with the wives
and daughters Of Americans, for the express
purpose of blasting forever the regulations of
the pure and stainless 1t is scarcely credible
Il at there could be any men found so destitute
Of every moral and honorable feeling, as to en-
bark in so disgusting an enterprise yet it comes
to us vouched for by respectable gentlemen,
who are not politicians, and we are bound TO
place reliance on their veracity.
Doubtless the committee appointed TO ram
sack the bawdy-houses of the Hook and Five
Points, were well acquainted with the hiding
places of the femmes de joie, and knew exactly
where TO raise femal. body guard equal in all
respects to the abandoned wretches who attend
ed the army of Caesar Even at that ancient
date the contact was pronounced by the great
Roman orator as an appalling degradation, even
among the heather; yet, in this free and Chris |
tan country we find monsters, called respecta- |