The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-07
From then Y Epening Post
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
AND THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND.

remarkable circumstance occurred at the Ash
burton dinner on Thursday. We will let the Whie
prints relate it for u.s.
The Commercial of last evening says
when the President of the United States was
toasted few drank, and not sound of applause
broke the ominous silence. When the Queen was
named the company spontaneously, and the hall
r,sounded with cheers
The An riean has this paragraph:
{" The dinner went off very satisfactorily except
Tor the one occurr nee, which Americans could not
but regret-that while the toast to the President
called forth not single mark of applause that to
the Queen was received with three cheers Nothing
however, could strongly sh ow the utter To-
| ing in which President Tyler is held than the unpre-
medltated and ominous silence in which the toast TO
the office he so lilly fills was received"
1t is true enough that Americans cannot but regret
the circumstance. The toast to the President of the
United States the first given out II was re-
ceived with what both prints call an ominous ST.
lence and the company refused to put their glasses
to their lips. The second toast was the Queen of
England. They who had just treated the head of
the kepuohc with contempt, rose instantly at the
mention Of acrowned head and drank the toast with
enthusiasm, amid repeated cheers.
What makes the matter the worse is that among
the toasts prepared for the occasion there was no
other referring to political Institutions than the
toast to the Chief Magistrate of the nation The
toast was not so much the individual as the head of
the Republic; it mark of respect TO his Office,
1t was not John ~ Ter who was toasted but the Pre-
sldent of Il e United States whoever he might he
So in toastlng the Queen, it was not so much the
young lady, Victoria, the head of the British mon
archy. Yet an assemblage of Americans pretending
to be Republicans, at dinner given TO the British
minister, with Engishmen for their guests members
of the British Parliament and officers of the British
navy treat the mention OF the head of our free Gov
eminent with ndgnity, receive IT with an "ominous
snence leave their glasses untouched and the in
slant monarch is named start TO their feet will
brlndlshed gobets and rend the air with applauses
We can scarcely doubt that many of them looked
over their shoulders to their British guests with a
look which said carry that story home to vour
countrymen, and tell them which of the two forms
OF Government we like best, a monarchy or repub
he"
Even if the toast had been plain John TYLER i, nos
not too much to expect that il should have been re-
celved with demonstrations Prospect on his occasion
he company had assembled To celebrate a treaty
winch Mr.. lylers administration had lust concluded
with a foreign nation. The act which called forth
her rel icings was as much Mr.. Tyler's as Lord
Ashburtonsi the negotiations which led to the treaty
were carried under his eve and under his d. rec
ion Even If they dsliked the other proceedings of
MI lyler, they were well pleased with Ibis.
Inc journal OF Commerce apologies for the indig
NIFTY with which the head OF our Government was
treated by saying that it was accidental; that the
toast 10 TIE President not distinctly heard in all
arts OF the room, and being the first toast the feel
lngs vl the company were not reused aud that when
The toast to the Queen was given somebody set re
cheers agolng and they went of course w.th hearty
good VIII This is Ingenious but If il be true
why did not the company, seeing the great disr,
spect to our Government piled 10y The con ras, in tie
reception OF the two loasts call for the rs oas To be
gwen out again that they might accompany the men.
ton of Republican President with a, least the same
h0nofs which they paid t. a monarch II there is
any thing in the excuse the Journal makes for IL,
commercial friends whom 1t so anxious io xcunat,
II the company had felt prp per respect fo the for of
government under which they live, n clamor for the
repetition OF the first toast would have arisen from all
tue tables aud from every part of the banquetinp-
room
he explanation Of the matter Is that the comuanv
were, with few exceptions, w higs who regard Their
own government with feelings which are too common
among that pirly-neu ready TO welcome with shouts
the name OF monarch, and receive with conienpu H.
Gus silence the IN, nlion OF plain President The
thing could have happened no where except ia a com
pany Of Wings There were some persons al the Ia
be, no doubt, who disappEoyed II highly One OF
them left the room, saying aloud there are no Anne
ricaos here" others there doubtless were who re-
manned, but the foreign parialitIes of the company in
general were manifested ia manner too gross 10 be
explained away.