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From the Richmond Whig.

eo 10 your paper ot the lst instant, It is
stated that
80 far from Mr.. Tyler having been
selected at Harrisburgh in obedience to
the popular will he had scarcely been
thought Of for the nomination. Mr..
TaIlmadge was the universal choice Of
the Wing party, and had no consented
TO accept, would have received the unan.
imous nomination Of that enlightened
Convention. Next to Mr.. Tallmadge
Mr. Leigh was the choice OF The Har-
rIsburgh Convention, and had not his
honorable but oversIrained scrupIes OF
deIicacy interposed, Mr.. Leigh would
have been unanimously nominated, and
would now have been President Of the
United States. by the way, wp haze
mol get tOrgiUen him for suffering mere
fantasy to mar The public happiness, and
to impose upon Us such an abortion Of a
President as John Tyter.j
1--WE are dealing in history, not in fc
tion. Mr.. Leigh having declined, for
the refined Scruple that TO accept the
nomination from body of which he
was member might be imputed as
procuring his own nomination, Gov. o
wen, Of North Carolina, then suggested
Mr.. Tyler, for the sole reason that his
name had been on the Whig Ticket in
1886, and had thus been heard of 10 the
South and Southwest. No other name
was mentioned, and Mr.. Tyler was &C
cepted as on alternative, not as a choice
In fact, nabody thought about the office
as OF any importance, or cared much
who filled it. We guess they will be
more petiCLer another time. In Virgin
ia, whore he is best known, Tyler was
so obnoxious, from his conduct at the
Senatorial election in 1889, that nobody
of Wings would have trusted him for
any place and the proof of The fact is,
that the Virginia delegation at Harris
burgh refused TO vote for him to man.
concealing their motives however, under
the plea of delcGcy We said above
that we ere dealing in history, not in
fiction -"
From whatever source you may have
derived your information on which you
have founded this statement, | must re.
quest you ia let your readers know thai
you derived no part of it from me; anc
as, under the circumstances Of the pub
Iication, my silence might be regarded
as confirmation Of the statement,
must say further that the information
you have received is erroneous 10 res
pect 10 Mr. Tyler and to me.
1t was my belief that after Genera
Harrison was nominated for the Presi
dency, Mr.. Tyler was the choice of 1
majority Of the Harrisburg Convention
for The Vice Presidency, and am quit,
sure that was not-as sure as | can b.
of any thing which depends on evidence
Of facts passing under my own eyes.
, succlnct account Of the transaction will
render this plain.
The Convention met and was organ
lied on Wednesday morning. A reso
; luton was adopted after some debate
that a genera committee should be ap.
pointed by the respective delegation
from the several States, to collect III,
votes Of the several delegations for tn,
, nomination Of fit persons for the offic,
OF President and Vice President Of tn,
United States-each delegation to Civ,
, the same number OF votes 10 making th
nominations as the Slate it represente,
was entitled to electoral votes in tn
, electlon-and whenever any one person
! should have a majority of the Who'll,
number of such votes, the nomination
!. to be reported to the Convention.
, The several delegations appointe
their com mItees TO compose the genera
committee, on the same evening, or cal
;. ly Thursday morning. The deIegato
from Virginia appointed me alone to ac
= as the committee on its part; all othe
:. delegations appointed three members
except one or two which had not so mi
}, ny as three delegates in attendance.
H0 RSuOIuI COHlllule6 mot early q
t, Thursday morning, and appointed Go,
Owen, Of North Carolina its chairman
s. and Mr. Bacon Of Connecticut, Secrelar,
= The first step ofthe general commi
tee was TO collect through the agenc
|, OF the particular committees Of which
( was composed, the sense OF the indivi
ual members Of the Convention as 10 II
., nomination for the Presidency. 1t a
a, Peared that there was a plurality of Il
individual votes for Mr., Clay, but not
: majority ofthe whole. The other vot
a. we're divided between Gen. Harrison
s Gen. Scott.
i The general committee next procoe
ed to collect the votes of the delegation
rp for the nomination for the Presi1enc
u 1t appeared that there was plurality
them, but not mujorily of the who
n, for Mr.. Clay, the other votes being {
vided, partially, between General Ha
ID, rison and General Scott. The votir
fnr the nonnin ation IF Dro,;J., ,.