Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

THE MANAGERS
Of the Theatre deserve much credit for
the honourable and splendid manner in which
they received the President last evening, and
the performers certainly exerted their several
talents in the parts allotted to them with
uncommon ability. The interlude was elegant,
suitable to the occasion and truly American.
Although I am not a friend to
Stage Dancing, I was highly gratified with
the novel, graceful and active exhibition of
Mr. and Mrs. Byrne. But the audience!
no man who was not there can have an idea
of the loud bursting enthusiasm, the heartfelt
rapture with which they received their
respected President, and the constant shouts
and huzzas which rung through the house
in honour of him through the whole evening.
The National Songs met with unbounded
applause "Firm-united-let us
be" was the universal sentiment; and this
chorus was joined in by the audience with
general enthusiasm and great effect. If I
hated Bache and some others even more than
they hate their country and government, I
could not wish them a greater punishment,
than to have obliged them to have been at
the Theatre last evening, and to have witnessed
the joyful return of American feelings
and sentiments: and the entire banishment
of those execrable French murder shouts
which once disgraced our places of public amusement.
In the course of the night.
which was remarkably mild and serene, a
great number of gentlemen, accompanied
with a Band of Music, serenaded the President
and the Heads of the Departments and
the author of the Song, with the new Song
"Hail CoLUMBIA! happy land."

The spirit of America is aroused--Let its
enemies beware.