The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-16
Fysm he N. Y. linton.
THE NATIONAL INSULT REBUKED.

ions that the people ready and prspassd 10
sssont any nsph - the counry, whether offered by
opsn or secret foes-by avowed concealed enemies
by fereign hirelings or renegade Americans We
NUT confess that disappointed greatly, but
agrsesby disappointed Weexpected from the hssty
manner ~ which the procession was conceived and
executed that would have made and reputa-
bic appearance tina, therejwoud have been much to
applaud and nothing 10 conference.-the the honor OF
the country and the character Of the Chief Magistrate
would have been amply sustained but we were not
prepared 10 see the outpourngs Of indignant people
greater IN numbers than we remember to have
seen on any former occasion. Although The persons
Participating IN the ceremonies Of tho day were from
three 10 hve Thousand, espeak within bounds when
We say that there could not have been less than lOO
QUO who lined with double and triple rows-the Bow
cry Tor more Than miIs-down Blocker TO Carmine
down Hudson 10 Canal, and down Broadway TO
the Park. Every window was filled, every balcony
was crowded-we never witnessed greater curiosity or
more interest it showed that the people not the poll
tcans felt ind gnant the insult offered TO the coun
Try by The black cockade men, and determined TO
| resent it.
The Knockers and sneerers looked blank and dis
comhed and felt much they could feel the force
of the rebuke.
| The Unions account is subsla ntially the same
given yesterday. After the meeting organized
in the Park, the Committee previously appoint
ed made the following
REPORT;
At a meeting of American citizens assembled at
Hermitage Hall in the I7,h Ward of the city OF New
York on the 5th Of September, 1912, the following
resolutions were unanimously adopted;
Resolved, That committee Of three be appointed
inquire into the proceeding Of the dinner given to
Lord AshbuIton, the Special Minister and Penipoten-
tiary of Great Britain "by the merchants and cit-
zens OF New York." at the Astor House, on the I'd
instant, when, according to the published admissions
| of persons present, the American toast "The PIesi-
| IL. lova,
laughter, hy Of the Americans present, and
drank by others in contemptuous silence while The
| British toast, "The Queen of Great Britain, was
drank with exuaIion and reiterated applause, in adj
| dilOn to the customary marks Of respect
| Resolved That the committee be requested TO re-
port the Of all the Americana present on that
OCCASION designating those who to pay the usual
respect to the American national toast and those Tho
did not together with such other information con-
corning the conduct Of all the persons present, whe-
| theI Americans or foreigners the committee may
be able to obtain, and shall deem interesting to the
| public. And that the Committee prepare report OF
the same to he read at meeting Of American Citizens
| to be called in the Park upon the subject.
| Resolved That Messrs. Pierre A. Young Richard
Adams Locke, and Andrew Hutton be appointed TO
| that committee.
In pursuance Of these instructions, the undersigned
report that they have diligently made the inquiry
joined upon them in the first resolution but without
that success which would warrant them in n:urring
|
The humiliang occurrences stated in the first, they
have ascertaned with profound regret to be strictly
| true and that those occurrences were attended by
aggravating circumstances not therein mentioned
| But they have been unable to procure such list Of
| the names Of the Americans present they
dertake to pronounce correct since they have
to believe that several persons reported to them be-
ing present were absent and that others reported alb
sent present Neither they designate in
dividually, those who and those who remained
seated, when the first national toast proposed
for they have not found any informant who was sutt-
GENTLY observant Of this distinctive conduct OF the
| whole number ofindivduas present on that occasion,
furnish the information desired and they do not
consider il incumbent upon them make an nvidous
selection of the names Of few prominent persons.
whose opposite course in this respect observed
The undersigned, however, have obtained enough
information concerning the names, character, and de-
pertinent of the far greater portion of the persons at
that public dinner, TO authorize them to express the
opinion that with the exception of the foreign guests
and very few others, the company was rgidly dvi-
ded in its strongly contrasted modes of receiving
the first American toast by the feelings and motives
of opposite political creeds Those who treated it
with contemPtuous neglect, or with actual dcrsion,
and other gross acts Of contumey were all members
of political party while nearly all of those who
evinced disposition to receive it with appropriate
patriotism and respect were members Of another
and it is not deemed necessary to present the public
with any further index to the designation of either.
IF such an indication necessary could be rea-
Oily supplied in the characteristic fact that those who
were most forward and conspicuous in manifesting
their contempt for the Chief Magistrate of their
try were loudest and most fervent in their venera-
ton for the British Queen.
In attrbuting political motives and feelings to the
persoas whose conduct thus broadly contradistin
guished the undersigned compelled by the recol
lection of occurrences Of similar character, a
less important OCCASION in which many of the same
individuals participated, to trace those motives and
feelings to deeper than the political events of
the present period, to which they are falsely as
cribed. The undersigned do not believe that those
who scoed at the President of the United States at
the Ashhurton dinner, were, they have since pre-
tended, Influenced by that peculiar and utter contempt
for the present incumbent Of the Presidential chair
which they so ludcrously affect for it is but few
years since, the arrival of the first steamship from
England, and when they were the guests of her
mander, they offered the same indgnity to another
President of their Government, and the same adula-
ton to the British monarch, in the presence of her
astonshed subjects as if the politicians of that school
eagerly availed themselves of such welcome occa-
sons to display their antirepublican sympathies and
their monarchcal predictions.
But although this committee deem II proper thus
to dvest the active agents in the last great outrage
upon the feelings and character Of their countrymen
of the false and fimsy excuse under which they vain
" seek shelter from the public wrath this report
not designed to shield any American who present
on that occasion, whatever may be his political faith
| or public station, from the just odum which must
heavily fall and long reman upon his name, for
passively submitting to so aggravated an insult to his
country. 1t was an occasion in which, never, the
honorable jealousy and pride of every American pre-
sent should have been strung to the highest of
vigilant sensbility.
1t was an occasion when the dignity and honor of
two of the greatest nations the globe, after long
controversy relative rights, terminating in equ-
table portion Of evil and enlightened adjustment of
every difference, were placed in juxta- position, as in
balance, and held aloft to the keen eyes Of the
world Was this an occasion in which Americans
th.sr
beam--ther form of Government derided-tbeir
Chief Magistrate insued and scornedf The occa-
sion was created in honor Of great nterna.
tional treaty, and which, according to the American
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