The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-06-01
From the Baltimore Sun
RECEPTION OF THE PRESIDENT.

published yesterday in this and other morning papers
and To which called the special attention Of our
readers, a meeting held yesterday afternoon at
The Exchange, to take measures for suitable recep-
ton Of the President Of the United States, his
rival In this city, when proceeding 10 Boston for the
purpose OF attending the Bunker Hill Monument
Iteration At about O'Clock (alternoon) several
hundred persons being then present, Columbus
'Donnel Esq, called the meeting TO order and on
his motion, William George Read, Esq, was called
to the chair
Mr. Read, on taking the chair, addressed the meet
ing, not at length, but in his we-known pithy, forci-
bic, and eloquent manner. The matter Of this brief
speech was, as might be expected, appropriate TO the
| occasion. lie felt the delicacy of his POSITION
The meeting had assembled for tho performance Of
high public duty to the city, to the country and
| the proud State of Maryland. The President of the
United States was about TO visit us, and it became us
to receive him with the respect due to his Office
| lie Is the Embodiment OF the idea which gives us
standing among the family of nations, ard he would
ask II IT was not the duty of every citizen render
him the respect which we would exact for him from
strangers' Would any of us bear the slightest disre-
spect from foreigners towards the chief magistrate Of
| our nation! No! Then ought we to be the last to
set them such example. Mr.. Read rema rked
that he knew the members of the meeting TO be of
different political opinions divided politically; and po
litical questions were warmly agated among them.
But this and the acrmony often charac istc Of DO
litca contests, demonstrate as the results of
the freedom they enjoyed. But they could unite on
| the common ground of patriotism; could they not
then unite on tins occasion, merge all their differ
ences of opinion, and rally at around the Chief
Executive of the nation and the principle of bospi-
tally, as they would in a Of hostile aggression
from abroad The speaker here referred to the omi-
nous sign OF growing disrespect for the magisracy
"a sign ominous OF diSrespect for the laws and inst-
tutons OF The country and proceeded to remark that
If men of talents and influence should set examples
of such disrespect towards the constituted auihor
ties, II would be followed by othe s. and anarchy
would supervene TO the destruction of good order and
/ q He nla air nf tb.a
peculiar delicacy Of his position He was as one in
troubled waters. He was not there to Indicate or
condemn the public course of conduct pursued by
President Tyler but he had shared his hospitality as
might any Of his auditors if they chose and he knew
him to be courteous, h-minded and liberal gen
eman, whose hospitality he felt disposed TO recipro-
cate and he trusted the people of Baltimore would
do likewise In respect TO hospitality, Maryland had
some State pride Her hospitality with her
| noble principle. IL was principle of the founders
OF the State and he trusted that the would en-
ulate their sires il that beraty and charity which
ever opened the door to the stranger; and that they
would be especially ohservant of The great principle
of hospitality when their expected guest was the Chief
| Magistrate OF the nation. Baltimore is the strap-
gers home shall then refuse open its doors TO
the first officer Of the na,ion' Mr. r. then spoke of
The occasion of the President, visit to The spot on
| which Warren fell fighting for American freedom
and as he would pass through city, he hoped Bal
tmore would not have TO blush for her eament of
HIM, as compared with that Of Philadelphia and New
York reference to the Presidents ception and
expected treatment at Boston, led Mr. Read TO speak
OF New England as the place of his own birth and
| education, and he would answer for his 1.-THE Presi
| dents) reception and treatment there. Even those
who might not agree with him in a single political
principle, and aided not in his elevation would treat
him as Hospitality if ne ha been The man of their
| choice. They will, said Mr. Read, sink the man in
the Chief Magistrate, and they will take him TO Lex
ington, TO Bunker Hill, TO Dorchester and TO Cam
bridge they will confer upon him the honors of old
Harvard they will show him their free schools and
their effects and exhibit 20 him their literary nstu-
tons and their benefits. Yankee thrift and its C n
sequences will be shown 10 him as Will the enter
prise, the wisdom, and the enlightenment Of the peo
pie and they will not forget TO show him the Yam
kee iorhcations.n' The factory gir.s too will he
presented TO ms notice and the speaker said would
not be matter OF surprise, # they should send him
back one half tariff man. After some farther re-
marks touching the anticipated treatment of the Pre-
sdent in New England, Mr. Read concluded by ex
pressing the hope that for the honor e MARYLAND we
should have no cause TO blush for our treatment of
him here.
ITO those who have ever been enraptured by Mr.
Reads eloquence, il is unnecessary 10 saw that the
foregoing is but sketch, not full report of his re-
marks, and that even full report would fail to make
upon the reader the impression which he never fails
to make upon his auditors
hher the conclusion Of Mr. Reads address Charles
=. Mayer ESQ., was chosen Secretary.
| John Nelson, Esq then addressed a few remarks
TO the chair, Introductory TO preamble and resoJu
/
OF the object OF the meeting He would paw suitable
respect TO the President Of the United States II no,
he would feel himself 10 be in the category of tbose
! in a sister city, who at a public dinner drank his
health in silence, while they drank that of the Queen
| Of England with boisterous enthusiasm lie d,d
not participate the elevation Of the present incur
bent Of the Presidential Office he approved of some
OF his acts and dsapproved Of Others but that was
not the question now-it was whether he should as
/ the Chief Magistrate Of this nation be properly re-
ceyed or not. But as it was not his purpose 10 maze
speech, and he, therefore, read aud off red the pre
amble and resolution which he held in hand and
moved their adoption.
The motion was then seconded by J. V L. McMa
| hon, ESQ, who said he considered any remarks by
! him unnecessary on the present occasion The fol-
lowing are the preamble and resolution, which were
opted unanimously:
Whereas, il is known that the President Of N.
United States is about 10 visit this CITY on his ro,
TO Boston and the citizens Of Baltimore here Assem-
bled without distinction Of party feel IL TO be due 10
the Chief Magistrate Of the Union that he should be
every where received with consideration and respect
Therefore be resoired That the presiding officer Of
/ his meeting appoint committee Of TWENTY-FIVE of
which the Mayor Of the city be respectfully request
ed TO oicate as chairman whose duty il shall be 10
adopt all suitable arrangements for the proper
ton OF the President Of the United States.
motion was made and carried, to add the chair
nam ana secretary to The committee, which, with
this addition, consisted Of the following persons =.
| Henry Snyder Esq, Mayor ex-oficio, John Y T.
Mcmahon, Joshua Vansant, John Nelson, Gen. Mar
| rott, n. Collins Ice, Columbus O'Donneu ColoneI
Samuel Moore James NJ. buchanan, George Law.
AS " Yankee Qualifications may not be generally
known even TO military men, and as Mr. Read did
not tell his audience what they are, may be proper
on the part OF the reporter to explain thus An OIL
Ger OF the British army, riding in a stage through
New Hampshire some years since, saw some cult /
waited fields with pine stumps standing then vet unde
cayed, though the land had been long time cleared
ana asked the driver what they were. The latter
told him they Yankee forthcatons such "a The
continental soldiers often used in the revolutionary
war, when they played the ID with the red coats