Tyler-ising
About five or six years ago, a Baptist minister oftho nortb,a man of the highest ntegrity and scrupulousnessofconscience pent a few days in Richmond, Virginia, vhere he was hospitably enteitained at the ouse of a Baptist lady. Among the serants who waited, our friend'd attention was particularly drawn to one young man, fvery genteel addressand pleasant apearance, whose complexion was so very ight as lo make it difficult to believe he ore any African blood in bis veins . Our riend was so much inlerested in his apearance, and so well pleased with his bemvior, thal he sought an opportunity of onversing with htm in regard to the weiare of his soul. During the interview, ome conversation louk place, and which ms been brought lo remetnbrauce by the venta of the last six monüis.Minster - Are you free, my friend? Servant - No, master, I belong to the ady who keeps the house. Jlf. Then you aie a s'.avc ! S. Yes, Master, I am a slave. M. Wereyou born in this house? 5. No, master, I was bougbt. My mistress bought me of my old mnster, Governor Tyler at Williamsburgh. Were you born on Governor Tyer's ptantalion. S. Yes, master, I va9 born there. M. - What is your name? 5. - My name is John, sir: my Mollier called me John Tyler, becauso she said Governor Tyler was my father. You know such tbinga happen sometimes on plantations. JU.- Governor Tyler your father; and did he sell you? S. - Yes}master; planters do it,you know the same as others . M. Were there any other children of your mother ihat were thought tobe your master's childrea? S. - Yes, sir,several. Af. - And what became of them? S. - I reckoa they are all sold beforenow. Now, we would not expres3 the süghtest belief that ihe man who is novv the acting President of the United States ever bad children by hia siaves, or ever sold tiis own children; al'.hough, from what 8 known of his pecuniary circumstances, and from the general practice nmong the slaveholders in lower Virginia, t is altogether probable he has supported his famfly by selling the increase of his slave stock. Bul we have the fullest confidence, the certainty, thut such a conversaron as we have described did take place in Rich mond, and that the genteel, slender-built, iight-complexioned, young slave did teil Sev . Mr. , a Baptist minister, that he believed himselfto be the soo of Gov. Tyler. Whetlier the siave told the truih or not, Governor Tyler knows: we do not, and therefore teil the story, as Jt was told to us, for what it is worth. In the year 1837, or the beginning of 1838, a colored man passed through Poughkeepsie, on his way to Cunada, who called his name Tyler, and who seemed to have a good deal of knowledge of things at Washington. He told the friend who gave him food and clothing for his journey, that his master had been in Coiigresá, and that he was his body servant. Some months afterwarda ahoiher man passed by the same route, who called himself Gideon,and said his matter was a Mr. Leih, of Virginia, who had been inCongreas. Gideon said lus wile had been sold away by his master, and, as he understood, was sent to New Orleans. He also said he knew Charles Tyler, and that he had belonged to Gov. Tyler, and that Gov. Tyler thougbt so much of hira that he would rather have lost every one of his other slitves, than that Charles should leave hitn. Charles Tyter remained ia Canada, gaining the good will of all, unül Lord Durham, then Governor General, returned to England, wlien he took Charles wilh him, as his waiter, or in sotne other confidential capacity; and it is supposed he is still in England, perhaps in the service of the Durhara family. Perhaps Gov. Tyler might do well to instruct his worthy ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, Edward Everett, to make a peremptory demand tbr the surrender of his property, thus wrongfully withheld by the humbug of British law.We will finish off, by giving an exlrnct of a letter wriiten by ihe above mentioned Gideon Lee, to his friend, Mr. Samuel Thompson, of Poughkeepsie, dated Feb. 22, 1839. It should be remarked thal,six months before the writing of this leiter, Gideon could not read or write. "8ir, the petition is written in my heart, and 1 can go to the jude of quick and dead, and on my knees present it; and ere [.mg it will receive reference - to an earihly committee? no, no- but to Wilberforce and ethers, glorified spirits on high. Will you, one and all, sign a petition with me to the throne of grace, for the deli veranee from cruel oppressiun of my poor futher and mother, sisters nnd brothers, for they are very noar my heart. Give my love to every abolitionist you see, and teil ihem their cause is God'g cause, and the cause of humanity - in restoring to man his freedom given him by a power older than the laws which euslaved him, older than ihe cuuntry which gave him birlh, older than the primeval days of time, and which. shull endure when this world is on fire, and time shull be no more- by God himself."