The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1843-06-26

From The Nesc York Herald
PROGRESS OF APTAIN
TYLER'S RECEPTION--THEI NDECENC lEs
OF THE NEWSPAPER PRESS
Tins Is said to De AN age of great efncment--pure
mofas-sast Improvement in taste--a high tone in
literature wonderful deccncy in manners-and great
chiva'ry oil character in all the relations Of life A
certain small class Of society ia this countryand
certain small portion Of the newspaper and periods
cal press, claim to possess par srceence all the ennis
nent chara teristics which we have enumerated
among newspapers, there is particular clique or
class more pertinacious in putting forward their
claims than others few Of which we may name
as follows ri. the "New York Courier s. Enolire,
2 the "Boston Atlas " g. the "Nsw York Amcri-
can" &c., sc.
Now, in reference to one important event. the nil
grImage Of the constitutionay eeeted President Of
the United States to Bunker HILL what has been the
conduct and behavior Of those prnts7 Let us give
only one example, which is as good as dozen, and
IS taken from the Courier & Enquirer Of tile 18th
From the Courier e. ENQUIRER
THE ACTING PRESIDENT.
I" Mr.. Tyler left here yesterday in the steamboat
Massachusetts, for Stonington and thus has trrmi-
mated his visit to the Commercial Metropolis of the
country.
1t is Notifying to ever, friend Of our country and
to every advocate Of her institutions, that BY any
accident the Office Of Chief Magistsate should be
filled by one so utterly unworthy of the station and
II IS still more Notifying that the reckless and un-
Principled Individual who now discharges the duties
OF President, should have been Mr..
Tyler knows now, as he did before he left the seat Of
government that Of the hundreds Of thousands who
would meet him in this city and at other places on
ms route, there would not be ten individuals Of the
whole number who do not look upon him as an IN
priaeiptsd traitor. meritng alike the contempt and ex-
ecraion OF every honest and honorable man in the
republic lie knows too--hs conscience told
him--that no gentleman could for singiesmoment
receive him as an equal or look upon him aAHrepu-
table associate, except in his official capacity; and
knowing all this, he had right to thrust himself
upon them. He had recently visited Virginia, the
land OF his birth-his own homeland having even
there met with contempt and neglect, he should have
abstained from this pilgrimage to the North.
Tie could not but feel and know, that all
that mass of human beings desired in their hsGts TO
hiss and boot at the reckless traitor protested Brio
ciples and gentlcmanly conduct instead Of doing him
honor BY the pageant got up in honor Of his accids
tai position And it naturallyf0 tr
lows that he cannot and does not appreciate the
loahing which his presence here has excited among
all classes OF our fellowcitizens without reference
70 party To be instrumental
any way in honorlng one so treacherous and unprn
cpled, was gall and NORWOOD to all
AS we said before, but for the vanity and folly
Of John Tyer-two qualities which appear so prom
ineDi in his character that but flor his treachery
and knavery they could be described as leading
The extraordinary language which is here applied
TO the Ch ef Magistrate Of the United Stats IS only
equaled but not surpassed by the terms Of reproach
heaped upon him by the "Amcrcanr Of this city,
the " Atlas of Boston, and other similar journals
Yet the clique OF society, whose wods and opinions
these Journals only reflect retend to possess all the
virtue, morals intelligence education and gentle
manly qualities Of the land. They are in fact, the
only class of citizens in this happy free and equal
land, who preen to set up as exclusives in society
as species oil ars'ocracyas persons of higher birth
and nober purposes than the of people around
them The opprobrious language used by these jour
mails not isolated examples of back guard snl--
they are IN FACT samples OF the precise character and
style which prevail IN the parlor-n the counting
room--in the drawing rooul--in the club room--and
ia all the other haunts of elegance rascality piety
and dissipation which characterize that section of
society.
John Tyler, the President of the United States
has, doubt lis errors-a TO err is humanr--but he
has undoubtedly performed his public duties to the
best of his abilities and power. As private gen
ueman, he is amable, honorable and open hearted
as public man, he show consistent and hon
orable career as any statesman IN the country Ia
both capacities, IN either, be certainly does not
merit 10 be treated and talked of as one would speak
OF ielon going TO prison TO suffer for his crimes
and more especially Is IT extraordinary that that por-
ton OF the press and of society," that claim TO posses
ali the virtue, morals, and respecabil,y Of the land
should indulge in such low, degraded disgusting at
trocious and shameless epthets.
But the truth is ths-these email sections Of So
ciety that disgrace themselves by such conduct are
not The sound portion OF the American people or
American society. The great masses that turned
out on the day OF reception and behaved with gen
uemanly propriety and decency real American
society, the small clique who disgrace themselves by
using such terms as we have shown, when speaking
Of tile President the salt herring arlstocracy-
the Goldfish hapt fon-the picked--mackere shie--
class Of social le composed OF certified bankrupts
Wall street swndlcrs, paper hnancers gaping stock
jobbers, with some few bankers and capitalists for
them TO prey upon and deceive. They are compo-
sed Of that class of society who plumber and rob The
widow and orphan OF their properly--~ho cheat the
honest artizan and adesmsp, and then take the BEN
eht Of the act, TO give them standing In Wall street
They The coarse and vulgar intasors OF the Eu-
ropean aristocraey-but, with the 6aural Instincts
OF Ignorance and impndence, they cspy their vices
not their virtues. II
Such being the case, the vtaa piion Of such
class of people, and such paps9I not amount Ca
much IN these days Of intelligcpc31D Independence.
From 1e Chronicle and Old Domination