The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-16

New York, stayed here and left it as and how
he pleased, no one caring to inarire word
about his movements. When has term of Office
shall have expired he will again travel to and
fro with as little ostentation and as little stir
as his predecessors. Mr.. Tyler, who, few
days after his descent from the Presidential
chair happening to be in Virginia, was few
minates too late for some steamboat, and was
left behind with as little reluctance as if he
had been pedlar or q hod- carrier. Butfo the
present he IS our servant. the first servant of
the people aud we insist on dealing with him
as our republican pride may suggest.
Visits Of European monarchs to provincial
cities within their dominons are marked by
an unusual display of monarchical tyranny.
Crowds are suffered to assemble and allowed
to cheer, but their movements, their voices
and even their costume. are the object of
special and oppressive regulations. The pre-
sence Of their sovereign is the signal for a
diminution of the comparatively small share of
personal freedom which they usually enjoy.
Here. on the contrary, such events illustrate
the unbounded liberty of the American citizen.
He ordains the ceremonial and obeys no other
laws but those he has made. He bows to no
etiquette but that which the good taste OF his
own community enjoins. He abandons his
ordinary vacations for the holiday but in
doing so he does not as foreigners do, ex-
change one servitude for another still more
arbitrary and unpleasant.
Presidential tours are suggestive Of yet an
other reflection. Whatever be their politics,
whatever popularity their administration may
enjoy, Presidents of the United States are in
variably received with fclat and cordially well
coined to the various cities of the republic.
Their political course may have reused a host
Of enemies. Their party may be in bad odor,
and their administration in disgrace. The
press may have marked them as targets for in
cessant attack Notwithstanding all this. the
very men who are the most implacable in their
political animosity will gladly join in cere-
mony to do them honor when they leave the
seat of government. Cavaliers will be silenced,
and men of all factions will forget their rancor,
to cheer the President Nor is there any
anomaly in the practice. Military and civil
displays on the occasion Of Presidential re-
ception arc not due to the popularity of the
man but to the respect paid to the Office. They
are meant to testify to the veneraton which
citizens are always ready to evince towards
the post of chief magistrate Of the republic,
whatever opinion they may hold of its tenn
porary incumbent. 1t has happened more than
once that a President has been cordially well
coined by the inhabitants Of city where he
was personally unpopular; and though no one
can suppose this to have been the case with re-
gard to our present distinguished guest there
were certainly as many wings as democrats in
crowds which cheered him through the city on
Thursday. Some portion of their applause
may have been due to the talents and virtues
of the man, but by far the greater portion was
mere testimony Of the respect felt by all
classes for the exalted station which he fills.