The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-07-05
From Noah's Weekly Messenger.
MARRIAGE OF THE PRESIDENT.

"None but the brave deserve the fair" 81
Our peaceable and moral city was thrown into
trepidation and alarm on opening the penny pa
pers on Wednesday morning, and finding that the
President of the United States had arrived the
night previous at Towards. "What could have
brought him SO suddenly and so secretly from the
White House?' was the question everywhere
asked. War with England on the Texas ques-
ton, and he came to examine the harbors and
provide for the public defence forthwith, orders
we're given to sell all the fancy stocks at the
New Board-Harlem, Stonington, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, Canton, &C., &c. Then the politicians
surmised, that his visit was to arrange the bust
ness for the new collector thousand rumors
prevailed no one could see him; Howard stood
sentry at the door, as fierce as one of Harry the
Eighth's beef-eaters at length deputaton start
ed off to our friend Colonel Graham, Usher of the
White Rod and Lord of the Bed Chamber, when
the mystery was at once solved: it was not a
war visit, which had brought the commander in
chief to the city-it was not the Offices, or the
dispensing of political favors-it was not Texas,
but it ,UdS annexaton-a mission of love--a visit
of recreaion-of joy the President came on to
be married to carry off beautiful belle from
the Empire State, to soothe him amidst the cares
of State, to have his way in one agreeable deter
mnaton, in spite of the belligerent Senate ; ne
came to be married-Dost haste to be married
SO the church was thrown open, the Bishop jump
ed into his ponti6cals, the lovely, blushing bride
held out her finger for the ring, the clerk cried
amen, the ships of war fired salutes; and honest
John Tyler soon found himself seated in the rail-
road car with friend at his side, which he found
in New York Mirabile dictu! friend, in whom
he could confide, and whose office required no con-
frmation, but her own free will; friend to soothe
his cares, of which he had plenty, to smooth his
pillow, and to enjoy, the banks of the James
river, the charming view of little niggers, cotton
crops, and tobacco fields. So suddenly had this
affair been conducted so bewildered and astonish-
ed were the beau monde, at what Mantalini would
call ga dem'd abduction" that it was at one time
debated, whether old Hays should not be sent to
arrest the wedding party, and the whole affair
looked into by his honor the Recorder, who would
have been delighted above all things, to have
cross examined the lady, under writ of Habeas
Corpus: and one of Mike Walsh's boys was 80
indignant at the suddenness of the Eruption,
which he classicaly compared to the Grape OF
the Carbnes," that he seized one of the muslin
banners belonging to the order Of the Huge Paws,
ran down to the foot of Courtlandt street, and in
scribed upon it, BRING BACK THAT GAL
Well, honest John Tyler is courageous man,
and lucky man, and his life has been striped and
chequered most zebra like; he has been Wing
and Democrat, vetoed two banks settled every
thing amicably with John Bull, made treaty for
the annexation of Texas, which the Senate would
| not ratify, and marrled-all within four short
| years.
1t was amusing, however, to hear the superan.
nuatedol maids, the Miss Lucreta Mactaos, and