The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-13
From the Baltimore Sun.
THE NEW YORK REPORTERS" HONOR
TO WHOM HONOR"

Sc be IL; let all everyw here receive The honor dus
TO their conduct. IL Is right, just proper, eninenlly
republican and trust that Ia the proceedings
about TO be had in New York city, to give expression
TO the feelings of the people in respect TO the national
insult perperaed at "the Ashburlon dinner, the spi-
mt manifested by the newspaper reporters present on
That occasion, will not be permitted to pass without
due notice. They deserve all the honor which upon
such an occasion the people confer on them. "in
body they lett the of arsocratic estiviiy, a.
which it proposed to make them seal the decree OF
their inferiority by conserving to their own de-
graduation. And below whom proposed TO place
theml Who they, who, claiming TO be their So
cal superios, would have consigned them 10 the
condary position ofa side table, To be fed like the me-
mails of such men their chief guest upon the "old
| odd ends" of their dinner tablet Why, they were
men TO some Of whom the honest industry OF their
hard-working fathers had given undeserved wealth,
TO Others OF whom speculation had done Ike service,
to others again of whom special rascaty Of genteel
and ashinnable" description had done ditto" They
were for he most partand the exceptions were few
-of tankrupis living In luxury and splendor, OF men
who have aspred and not without degree OF sue
cess to he distinction of leaders in the wordss OF bu-
siness and fashion, finance and good society,"; but
who, this OCCASION degraded themselves 10 the low
level OF The courtly sycophans that crawl about the
lowest steps of royal thrones and who, not content
with this, sought for themselves and found It, below
that derpa lower deph n the base ndignity offered TO
their own country Nowonder then that the reporters
ofN. Y apart from the nrinsically insulting character
of the offer of sde-tabe and "cold vicuals," indig
nantly refused to continue to such company the ho
of their presence. Superior at once in ntellec-
ual attanmens and in patriotic feeling to the mixed
assemblage of pulled up wealth and respectable bank
ruptey, they felt the insult offered to them men
conscious of their real worth must of necessity have
felt They held in deserved contempt the arstocra-
tic assumptions of superiority by that company and
well they might, for there were but few men at the
board having anything like distinguished reputation
for talents, who not indebted for it more to the
talents of the reporters than to their In truth,
most, If not all our great men" in public life are
heavily indebted to reporters for whatever Of honora-
BILE fame they enjoy, at least for large share OF
it; and can assure those who scornfully assume
to hold them inferior degree of estimation that
the day has gone by in which such assumptions could
possibly receive the general sanction. Repo ters as
class incorporated into the press an institu-
ion, and with the advance of freedom and hberaly,
they have been rising TO their proper elevated
level They now know tteir value their indispen-
stability, the position to which they entitled and
the power they hold in their hands, and which they
well know how to WELD and think we may ven
ture to say for them generally that they will, as
body, submit TO no lndigniy, however strongly II
may be backed by power, wealth. fashion or "gentil-
ty." In the noble conduct of the New York report
ers we have an earnest of this and for The example
which they thus before their brethren throughout
he country, claim for hem at the hands q the
press, the high degree of honorable notice to uhich
they have established such just and indisputabIe
claim.