The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-06-19
LETTER TO A GENTLEMAN IN WASH
INGTON.
Nrw Yonk. June l5lh, lsl3.

A
by ADLER pens, and ere This will reach you, the
details will no doubt have been republish,d aud
read by all at the capital.
! The reception and It's attendant circum'
stances formed one Of the most imposing and
magnificent displays Of respect aud attachment
TO a Chief Magistrate, ever witnessed In This
city OF in the country aud whether viewed a.
a manifestation of personal regard for pubic
man, an evidence Of heartfelt admiration Of his
official conduct, or an instance OF patriotic de-
yolion TO the principles OF our free republican
form Of Government, It stands forth IN bold re-
lief as an unequaled honor to the man and TO
the city which has rendered it. II John Tyler
has not left New York with heart oyeriiowing
with gratitude and proud satisfaction, with
such feelings as are calculated to eiiace the bit
ter recollection of the food of slande's which
have been or may be poured out upon him, he
can scarcely possess either the pride or The en-
uobling virtues of our nature. He who can re-
ceiye alllhese demonstrations of attachment 10
his person and devotion to his principles, and
nol feel an elevation OF soul, Las neither The
spirit, the ambition nor The gratitude OF man.
He that has no vanity 10 be touched and
warmed into life by such spontaneous exhbi-
tons of popular respect and applause, can feel
none Of the restraints or the stimulants Of pub
lie opinion, and should never be trusted By a
free people. But John Tyler is proud of the
three days of his life just spent in New York (;
and they have been such as Washington, or
I Il
bright page If his own history.
The rabd devolees Of MIR. Clay are cut to the
quick; they are literally overwhelmed; and
their convulsive hounderings can only thus be
accounted for. Not an occurrence has taken
place TO morrify the President or his friend.
not an accident has marred the scene no
looked for display Of respect or attention has
been withheld but on the contrary, IN all
things, the iondest hopes Of Mr.. Tyler's friends
have been more than realized. Nothing could
have been done TO render the reception more
haiteung, or to usher II forth to the country in
form better calculated TO produce an appropri-
ate and desirable effect The Wings feel ii
keenly, for they cannot escape the sight of their
owa condition. Their power is gone from
them. Years of lying and detractons are now
TO be succeeded by an appropriate retrlbution,
and no thief under the lash ever writhed in
more agony than do they under the severe re-
buke of the last three days. The demon,tra
tons of the second day were like taking them
TO the post second time, and their howlings
were conespondingly bitter; but to be brought
out the third time, as they literally were, TO
writhe under the -o'ninelails of public OPT
Mon, was too much for their philosophy, and,
like Cain Of old, they were compelled 10 ex-
claim, 'our punishment is greater than we can
bear" The Courier and Enquirer leads all the
rest in the deep tone Of its lamentations. Wen
il NAV, for its corrupt devotion TO the United
States Bank has been oil more degrading and
venal character than that Of any PAPER besides.
Well may il set up its most bitter cry of hope
less despair, for the cause TO which il has base,
ly sold itself is eiiectuay and everlastingly
gone to pcrditon. II any thing were needed
to put final end to the last hope Of Bank Wing.
gerry, the honors which this city has heaped
upon the veto President, have driven and
clenchej the last nail in its coffin. II has gone
to its last home, and the mourners go about The
streets"
One Of the most disgraceful and heartless
features in the lying malice Of The Wing press
upon the present occasion, is their abuse of Mr..
Robert Tyler. had read so much Of il before,
that thought it possible the Presidents son
might indeed be conceiled coxcomb but ]
an happy to have the demonstration that he i,
not | venture 10 assert that no individual Ia
the Presidents suite, conducts himself in a
more genllemanly, unobtrusve and entirely ap-
propriate manner. No fair-mnde man, ac-
quainted with the world can spend ten minutes
in conversation with Mr. Robert Tyler, without
discovering high qualities Of mind and hea t,
which should screen him from such infamous
ISLANDERS be is made the subject of; but against
the ebullilions Of venom which mark the Clay
faction, modesty and manly virtue are no protec-
ton they make war upon these because they
are the Natural enemy Of audacious ialsehood
and venal corruption.
TIL re was one feature in the visit which /
have not seen commented upon in the public
journals. but TO me it was the cause Of some re.
greet. sIlude 10 the Circumstance that the Pre-.
sidcnt was loo much corrupted in seeing hiHgs
in New Y FORK, rather than men His bland and
unceremonious poirencss, and his ready Cow o.
easy and happy thought 10 conversation, won
the applause Of all who had the pleasure Of an
interview and there were thousands who wer,
refused such a qualification by The incrca in.
Gals upon his time, 10 visit this, that, and IN,
other Of the numbercss Improvements AID pub
| lie Institutions which the committee were cage
to show him. A public man should first be rer
miued to see the People and it was peculiarl,
due to them on this occasion, for hundreds O
thousands Cooked together eager to see the Pre-