The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-09-08

peTs throughout the country are expressing uiei
honest Indignation al the insult put upon the
President and the nation by the Clay Wing
Federalisrs in New York. The whole nation
will speak out in condemnation OF the dastardly
act
OUTRAGE UPON THE PRESIDENT AND
THE NATION.
The infamous proceedings enacted al the dinner
given at New York to the English naval officers and
TO Lord Ashburton by this time known over half
the Union. II is duty as American citizens, as
well as editors to put them into the hands Of every
man. woman, and child, as far as our means allow us,
and with Gods blessing, shall do So The cir
cumstances and times call upon every ci,zen to com
municate them To his neighbors-to make them
known To his children--to impress them upon their
young minds-to prepare these children from TINS
moment to know the domestic enemies OF the country
Ito make them acquainted with the traitors, the
agents Of foreign Government that exist among us
men, II they deserve the name, that desire to see
enemy in the heart of country to crafty their
hatred OF Its Institutions 10 enable them TO reign up
on its ruins under foreign domnation-men that
have done and are doing every thing In their power
to effect this purpose. We call upon every citizen
to mark the men that have thus brought out
scene under the eyes Of the citizens of New York,
and OF the strangers resident therea scene such as
country, not already in the hands Of foreign enc
my, ever exhibited
We cay, ana the acts of the that offered this
outrage to the Chief Magistrate Of the Union be-
fore US all and justify saying it, that the ndign-
~ concocted among them, prepared, probably, before
hand to insult the Chief Magistrate OF the United
States intended to be stomped upon the country,
It's Institutions its citizens, their children, wives, Sis
ters mothers every thing American. The proceed
Dgs we allude 10 the subject OF remark OF all the
New York papers received in Baltimore Sunday
and when, the New York American says, at the
name of the Chief Magistrate of the Republic every
man marked his contempt and scorn for the mfamy OF
the American President, we are told, by another pa
per, that each looked to he English officers pre-
sent, and seemed to say, "Fake this with you home,
and tell II in England These the facts, and still
more at:ociousy insulting the lrords N which the
American people are told of the outrage put upon
them thelI country and lis institutions, under the
eyes OF all the English naval officers carefully assem-
bed for this purpose. But when the name OF the
Queen of England was proposed shout OF exui'a-
ton and JOY arose from the table three times three
repeated such shook the pillars Of the building 10
their foundation: Mr. G. King, the editor and pro-
piieior Of the ~ Y American, the person selected
beforehand seems, to jump upon the table and give
the three times three that "shook the building TO
rs base" Weknow not if the person thus selected,
or the scene thus PREPARED conveyed the greater m
sult-ths man, with whose existence Is associated The
recollection of American seamen prisoners OF war;
massacred in Dartmouth prison by the command OF
an English officer, of hich he was the ardent apoq-
gist. lhe selection of this indeed suitably
made for the occasion. Few could associate
more recollecons to crafty the hatred OF some, The
revenge of others, and the triumph of the English ma
val Ulcers present by irritation. Not one man now
existing in the flesh combined in himself associations
painful To the country and more hear,rending
TO the relatives of the Amer lean sailors who were
shot down and bayone,ed within an English prison
The selection of such wretch supersedes all re-
mark on those that chose him. This is the man who
has continued, since the first veto, to scatter fire.
brands through the country; who declared, that the
institutions of the country have been tried and have
failed, and must now be changed even were 1t by re-
volution" Mark this, you that possess the right OF
voting because you are men, The insulting hardi-
hood of the language which this creature uses in Civ
ing the detail and the Infamous cpthets he applies to
the Chief Magistrate Of the American people gave
character to the whole sufficient to make every man
reflect deeply upon the future-every man that wish
es to leave the institutions of the country and the
union Of the States entire TO his children.
Hear what this Darmoo, editor says:
The toasts at the dinner to Lord Ashburton were
all printed, each one was thrice read at different
points of the table, and distinctly heard, and the ST.
ence, deep DEATH in which that Of the Pres-
dent was received was the most unerring indication
that can be imagined-vastly more so than any pre-
medtated or arranged expresson-of the estimate in
which the present incumbent OF the Presidential office
is held"
honor him for it, who Indignantly retired from the
at the preparation of this insult to the Chief
Magistrate of the Republic That man was Preserv-
ed Fish,
ne same paper says,-'lO Justce 10 lhe Dru,n !
officers who were present at the dinner to Lord Ash
burton IL a,~to, that W hen the toast 10 the
President of the United States proposed, each |
rose from his seat to drink it, The omInous silence
of our own countrymen, their shame I've it spoken,
nstoDishcd and embarrassed the foreign gentlemen.
They could not for the moment realise, that men pro-
Tossing to be Americans and Rel ubicans, could be
guilty of so gross outrage upon decency and pro-
pretty, as to insult, especially occasion of this
kind, and before strangers, the Chief Magistrate OF
the Union. We have good authority for stating, that
each of the British officers present has expressed his
modification that so outrageous procedure should
have occurred at table where they were invited
guests
IF Where is the thunder of the "inte)ligont'
American, and the law and order loving Patriot ~
Why they dumb as death when insults are being
piled upon our common country but readily display,
in all the pompousness of their arslocratic columns,
the eating, drinking, and carousngs of those who are
using every IN their power To lessen our coun-
try in the eyes of the worIdl But this is Whiggery
in its true coloIs--ei the people ponder IL