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The Tyler Party

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
August
Year
1844
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Public Domain
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vv e have already informed our readers, that on the27th of May, Mr. Tyler was nominated for the Presidency by a large National Convention at Baltimore. It is stated by many papers that he intendsto vvithdravv. Tyler electors have not been nominated in any State, nor is an organization contemplated, so far as weknow". Yet the Tyler papers, of which thcre is about one in each State, represent Mr. Tyler as an actual candidate, with flattering prospects. The following from the Cleveland Republican is the latest bulletin vve haveseen. "THE PROSPECT. The question is daily asked us whether we belicve John Tyler will be our nc.xt President. Wel], we think there is an even chance for it. The measures of his administration, as a general rule, have been good - with the pwple at large he stands well - and let hiin once cut loóse from and cast off the huckstering Hunkers who have preved upon his adtninistration, but wboarenow (as in truth thev have always been) his most vindictive opponents, there could le no reasonable doubt of his elëciion. The question of success or defeat Vests, then, mainly with hirnsclf." {t?0 Marcus Morton has written a letter declining to be a candíate for Governor of Massachusetts. He claims exemption from office, and expresses a wish to remain in private life. He has received .twenty-one successive nominations for Governor and Lieut. Governor, besides holding during nearly all that time and previously, other oflices with salaries and compensation of the largest description. A singular commentary upon the democratie principie of rotation. (t Supposeevery Liberty manshould vote the Whig ticket, it would only declare, at the utmost that they were op. posed to Annexation zinder present circumstances: Whereas every vote for Birney is a vote against the mensure, noxo undforeber.Rjh' Mr. Frelinghuysen is sound or s Abolif ion. So say ají the Whig papers i One Dr, Lind]ey, of Nashville Uni versi - ty, has published an article in which lie 3 declares that L!He (Mr. Frelinghuysen) isin no sense - ordegree, a fanatic or ultraist. He ü 3 free from exen the susficion of Aboli tionism. " ■ We shall not dispute the correctness ofthe assertion: but sbould this be a reeommendation lo the votes of Northern : Freemen? When such men as J. Q. Ad, aras, Seward, and Fillmore have been . "suspected" by the slaveholders of Abolitionism, shouid it be creditable to Mr. Frelinghuysen that heis greatly attached to the support of'SIaver that his fidelity to the accursed institution has never been suspecled? Let those -yho think so, vote for him. We prefer a man who, in the words of Scward, "will stand by in the cause of Human Freedom." (t?3 It is not expected by any ' body íhat Texas will be annexed till a year from ncxt winter. Neither party will co-operate with Mr. Tyler in eífecting if. Tvvo elections will take place before that time. According to present appearances, the Liberty vote will then number, at the very least, 200,000, with the prospect of a heavy increase at each subsequent election. Will not these two hundred thousand votes, when cast for the Liberty party, haye a greater restraining infiuence on both parties, in keeping out Texas, than when bestowcd in any olher way? ítT The Editor of the Detroit Free Press rccently visited Cincinnati. He w rites from that place, Aug. 5: "I had the pleasure, yesterday of atfending service in the Church where the Rev. Mr. Cleveland, formerly of Detroit, officiates. I-lis Church is a large and handsome edifice, but his congregation yesterday was not so niimerous as that he had in our city. His, I bclieve, is the 2nd Presbyterian Church in Cincinnati. lias furnished with a rich deep toned organ, which, with Mr. Cleveland's appearance in the pulpit, arrayed in the sable gown or robe ofthe Episcopal, struck me as something new for Presbyterians. Mr. C, of course was eloquent." 05 The Detroit Advertiser gives the following exposition of Mr. Clay's last letter on Attnexation-: "The Free Press quotes Mr. Clay as saying - "personally, J could of course have no objeclions to the annexation of Texas." Just sa. Personally, as a Southern slaveholder, he could have no objections to a measure which would so gieajtiy strengthen the class and section to which he bolongs. But polilically, as a national statesman, devoted to the Union, and just to the interests and opinions ofthe free as well as the slave States, he strenuously opposes it." It strikes us that this interpretaron is rat her hard. A very nice distinction is attempted between the "personal I" and the C!political I." We were not aware that the identity of Mr. Clay was doublé. W-esupposed that he had only one thinking, deciding mind, and that its volitions were those ofthe "person" called Henry Clay. We are rather fearful lest the "personal" shouid get the ascendency over the "political." On important questions, wc like to vote for a man who is "personally" right. We have the most confidence in a man's personal opinions. And we have no doubt whatever that Mr. ! Clay is "personally" m favor of the ' nexation of Texas, at. the first nient season" after lie shall have been ( elected. i - - ( 05" A correspondent of the Jackson e Gazette, (Whig,) wntes from Leslie, ' Aug. 10: "Still they comö - threO important changes in Leslie from Polkery e and Texas to Clay and Frelinghuysen - ' and four from Texas and her Slaves to !l Birney and no Slaves." UT We. have received a well wriuen addresp, Jehvercd by a colored student of Oberlin Oliio. K ïhe Ann.versary of West India Emancipalion. We shouid be pieneed to publish il, but cannoi C Jo so conistently with our other engrgements. ind wíth the plan we linve prescribed'io oureelvee n conduciing tliis paper. tr

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