Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1840-1842, 1841-12-01
MR.. TYLER.

| The Family Concern, /" at Columbus Ohio saws.
"The Harrisburg Convention, in obedience TO the
| popular will, selected Harrison and Tyler. The
| politicians opposed nol, because they dare not"
We have long known that Capt. Tyler considered
himself the real choice OF the whis Party for the
Office Of Vice President, and that his unlimited VA
nifty claimed even that his popularity was the cause
of HauIson's triumphant vols-ynrious anecdotes
to this effect, familiar the Virginia Public-as
for example, his boast after his return from Ohio,
that he had secured 10000 votes to the Wh;g ticket
by his going thilher-but not apprised that
any human being besides himself, entertained so
p.ePoslerous conceit, and we presume no one
does, out Of the family.
So far from MIR Tyler having been selected at
Harrisburg ain obedience 10 the popular will" he
had scarcely been thought Of for the nomination.
MIR TaAmsdgs the univ ersal choice Of the Whig
party, and had he consented to accept would have
received the unanimous nomination Of that enliobt
ened Convention. Next TO Mr. Tallmadse MIR
Leigh was the choice of the Harrisburg Convention
and had not his honorable but overstrained scrupes
of deicacy interposed, Mr. Leigh would have been
unanimously nominated, and would now have been
President Of the United States. by the tcav. zee
hare not yet forgiven him for suffering mere Jan
iasy 10 mar me public happiness and 10 impose upon
as such an abortion cra Prtsidsn. as John Tylsr)
| We are dealing in history, not in fiction Mr.
Leigh hav ng declined, for the refined serupe, that
to accept the nomination from a body Of which be
was member, might be imputed as procuring bio
own nomination, Gov Queen Of North Carolina. then
suggested Mr. Tyler, for the sole reason that his
name had been the White ticket in 1886. and had
thus been heard Of, in the South and South Yves,
No other name was mentioned, and Mr. Tyler was
accepted as an alternative, not a choice. In fact
no body thought about the Office as Of any import
ance, or cared much who filed it, We gusss they
will be more PsiieLsy another time. In Virginia
where he is best known, Tyler was so entirely Oh.
noNious from his conduct at the Senatorial election
/ in January 1889, that no body Of Wings would
have trusted him for any place and the proof Of the
iact is, tina. the Virginia Delegation at Harrisburg.
refused 10 vote for him to a man, conee1ling their
motives, however, under the plea Of dslieaey, We
said above, that zee are dealing IN HIiory, not IN
fiction.
/ Mr. Tyler was even then, when his fortunes
were evidently on the march, and his luck had tax
en- run the jest Of his own political friends. I'D,
ETesl,Hey, Coz. Giiner, Tyls- Vhig, whom Mr.
| Tyler visited at the Government House after his
return from Ohio being asked what MIR Tyler
seemed TO think Of matters, replied, ooh he thinks
he is carrying Harrison gorioUsyp'
No position is, can be more false, than tina,
, Mr. Tyler was the voluntary choice Of the wbig
party for the station Of Vice President Il was &C.
eIdent a and had his EKcslIoney been as dsiteai,
as Mr. Leigh, he would now have been in the in.
Significance, 10 which Virginia had justly consigned
him