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From the Baltimore Patriot, Of Sh .4prii, l54l
PRESIDENT JOHN TYLER.

The calamitous event which has 80 Unexpectedly
Withdrawn from his high station and from leoplc 3
love, the first officer Of the government, and which
deyoyes the high and responsible duties Of that sta
ton upon the second officer naturally directs alton
ton with renewed interest," 20 the eminent citizen who
shared in so great degree with the lamepted IlARR-
SON. the regard aud confidence of the nation. Elected
The second officer, and called by sudden dspen-
sation of Proyiden to the duties powers and re-
sponsibiies Of III, FIRST II is natural that the charac-
ter and principles Of JoHS TYLIR should become sub
jects Of renewed interest and attention among the
people
The wise and patriotic men who framed our ex-
ceent and admirable form Of government, provided
fully, so far human foresight might provide, ior
that melancholy event which, IN striking down bun
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MIR. TYLER'S LETTER.

WAsHrNGToN, June %, IS

WASHINGTON, June 80 1884.
GENTLEMEN; Your letter of the Goth instant in
viting to "the Democratic festival to be given at
Fountain Green on the 4th Of July next by those of
the party who wish to revive the principles Of the
Democrats Of 1893 TO resuscitate the doctrines of
Thomas Jefferson, and to establish principles the
only standard of pure Democracy" is now before
me-" and approving the leading objects expressed in
your letter, regret that it will be out Of my power
to be present at your celebration. ! regard as in
separabe from the anniversary If that suspicious
event, in the celebration of which all Americans
unite with enthusiasm, the principles of that great
and iustrious man who has left behind him more
imperishabe memorials of devotion to popular rights
than any other who has either preceded followed
him. The annunciaton Of the great truths contain
ed in the Declaration of Independence not more
important to the human family at large, than are
those which were announced by the civil revolution
Of 1889, TO these conicderatcd States. They en-
join strict limitation the power Of the Federal
Government They teach that the Constitution is
the result of a compact among sovereign States and
my belief Is that on the maintenance of these doc
trnes, all that is valuable TO frcemen mainly
depends. Resting on the principles Of a conledera-
cy IT does not belong to the age of prophecy to
foresee the power and glory TO which country is
destined and my impression is equally strong of the
fatal tendency Of all those and principles
which indicate Capitalization Of power here bringing
in its train heartburnings and jealousies among the
States, and substituting, the end force in piece Of
affection.
These remarks have felt TO be due to the occa-
sion, and in compliance with your request gentle
men, forward you the annexed sentiment, which
TRUST may prove acceptable.
have the honor to be
Your most obedent servant
JOHN TYLER.
The Union Of the States--The result Of compact
and resting the affection OF IFS members for perpe
tuity-its most dangerous enemy, the encouragement
Of sectional interests.
Messrs A. McCaraher, John VI. Barclay Thos
S. Smith, Jacob Frick and w. "A Hand Esqs Com
mIttee
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The Portland Argus truly says that the President
Z" has done much, by his firm opposition to Clay, and
the Bank and High Tariff Wings in Congress, 10 roll
back the tide that was setting in against our free in
sttutions and doubtless contributed, in no small de-
gree to the overwhelming defeats that have oyerta-
ken the Clay Wings, in almost every State during the
last year"
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The U. s. Gazette, after seeking in vain for
political sins in the Madi.onian, has commenced
hunt for typographical errors.
Now that all the calumnies heaped upon Pre-
sident Tyler, have been rolled back on the heads
ofthose who uttered them, we presume the Ga
zette will find fault with his chirography, parti-
cularly when he vetoes Federal measure.
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He carved two names upon the beechen tree.
Encrclng them with deep craven heart
Beneath its shade young Helen vowed 10 be
His loved and loving when she rose 10 par,
As summers twilight deepened into dark,
lie staid behind her there, and carved the bescl.
bark
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The Hon. A. H. H. Stuart, of Virginia, who was
appealed TO to confirm the statement of " Haon y
(Noah,) in the New York Union, denies its correct
ness-U 5. Gd-eae.
lie does not deny it in every Essential par
ticuarn The Gazette should tell g the truth.
the lchoie TRUTH" &c, as Christian, if not as
a politician. We again call on Mr. Stuart to
publish 10 the world precisely iohat it is he
possesses which is to convict the President
Let the Presidents writing be autographed.
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BIZ uSIrr-N NON ESSENTIALS, LIBERTY AND IN ALL
THINGS cHARirY.-.4ugistn
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Correspondence Of the Boston Post
WAsHHGros, Oct. A, 1874


In the ancient days Of chvalry. when true noble
ness Of soul scorned alike unfair advantage, and
ncessant strife brave combaants might have engaged
the liyeIong day in a mutual contest, dealing and re-
ceiying deadly blows with all the luminosity OF mutu-
al rivalry and after such protracted tolls, as the
sun with lis last and lingering rays was gliding the
peaks Of the Hottest hills, upon the suggestion oil
either party the battle would temporarily cease and
warriors, moment before eager for each others
death would proceed the nearest riyuet IN all the
confidence of good fellowship 10 Stake their thirst
with cooling draughts and after, like brothers meet
ing from long separation, lie down side by side to
await in amicable and lively conversation, or, II may
be, IN peaceful sumbcrs, the dawn OF another day,
when the strife Of battle might be again resumed.
Let me propose, after their example, short sus-
pension Of hostites and the muses., the bes syrens
Of voice and verse, shall intermIngle their divine
sounds in conservation Of the general armstice.
seize from friends table, " The Adventures Of
Poet" and begin at the beginning"
NCANTO
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COURT MARTIAL ITEMS.
Hon. A. ?. UPsHUR
Secretary Of the Mary.

We understand that the Naval Court Mar
tial at New York. by whom Lieut. Nathaniel
G.. Bay was tried upon the charges Of drunken
ness, sleeping on his watch, aud absenting him,
self without leave from his ship, has found him
guilty of these charges, and sentenced him to
be dismissed from the service, and that the SEN
tence has been approved.
Also that Commodore Henry E. Ballard was
found guilty of conduct unbecomng an officer
and gentleman, and sentenced to suspension
without pay for one year from the 18th Of Sep
TENDER, 1912.
Also, that Assistant Surgeon Chas. b. F.
Guillou was found guilty of disobedience of or
ders, neglect of duty and disresbect 10 his COM
handing officer, and sentenced to be cashered
which sentence, in consideration of his high
character for honor and integrity, and the rriva-
tons he has already been subjected to, has been
commuted to suspension without pay for one
year from 9Th August 1912.
We are also informed that Commodore A. ]
Dallas and Lieutenant James Noble have been
acquitted Of the charges against them.
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No other name ever be craven there,
In the first freshness Of that beeehen tree.
And she may listen to another's prayer
And he to other maids may bend the knee
Yet in their hearts abides for aye the token
OF the first VOWS they made, now missraby
broken"
In the fourth and last canto the hero "goes west
TO encounter new adventures, and mingle with an.
other race. Before his departure, however he take,
leave of his boon companions, and instead Of i
speech, gives them original song OF which We
must copy the first
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".4naereontie FaretceH.

Wen drink to those who are drinking now
who, on joys like ours, are ever thinking
Who fill the bowl with laughing brow,
And thus are ever drinking, drinking;
Then dearest, fill my cup for me,
And i will fill thy cup for thee
Thus will we love and wine impart,
Ane pour their gladness in the heart"
Don't you the exquisite aroma of these lines
Are they not Pndaric and do they not give San echo
to the seat where love (of wine) is throned Me
thinks as read them, wholly intent the sensations
they give rise to, have beside me a goblet of thy
glorious liquor, Champagne, with its enlivenng ana
mirth-begettng qualiti Of thine, oh, Hook
ever graceful and fascinating of thine, Madeira
my early friend, with thy many sober and endearing
juices or thine rich Burgundy with all thy sunset
glow" Your creed may be right, We water-drnk-
ers-and total abstiien may be total perfection
but give me iormy heart such songs and for nv taste,
such VINES and for some time yet will be mortal
and hold with Anacreon.
Our hero, westward-driven, travels through Penn
sylyania to past scenes, already story-renowned-
among others, the place of Braddock's defeat,
"Where youthful Washington bestrode
The field Of battle like god %
and pays just compliment to the hardy sons of wcs
tern sylyania. He embarks on the broad Ohio
and on her glorious waters feels glow Of nspira-
ton that suggests noble lyric might esteem
the happiest IN the poem, from which ] may not
quote. nor line of some beautiful stanzas he com
posed, at the request of fair young girl he met on
his first, his only love. No, must resist, however
strong the temptation Est nlod,,s in rebus
The poem closes with stanzas to He len
written after learning her marriage with another
and we must close critique, though sensible how
unjust to the various merits of the work is this slight
sketch )
The author, F. w. Thomas, Esq, is well known to
the reading public the writer of Clinton Brad
shaw, deservedy in the first rank of American nov
els. He finds time, amid other employments, ra-
.M,sis to flirt with the MUSES., to whom as to
all the SEX he has rendered himself agreeable. A
ripe scholar, and gentleman, he needs no greater
he deserves no sghtcr euogy-and as consider his
acquaintance fortunate event in my life, so | shall
hold it my greatest merit to have de erved it.
This poem, am given TO understand, will be pub
lished in the early spring, and will be TO the public
mind source of rich qualification.
AsMopEUs IN W.
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Lore IN eounlru md in to,r.


That gave charm TO solitude,
murmur TO the breeze
Twas when frequent falls the leaf
And we begin to think that brief
And brieier grows the day;
When far away, the evening sky
Looks sad and sober to the eye
When darker grows the rvulet
Where, in some tiny eddes play
The fallen leaves SO ftful fret,
Like hope, when we would hold it yet,
And IT would fam be far away"
beautiful and just description of the matured
days OF autum-snd the lines give cadence TO
thought, and attune our sensations in harmony with
The material objects the poet summons b fore
For the poetry produces such illusion the eye OF
the mind, as the camera obscura produces upon our
bodily enclosing il within the dim lighted cells
OF the Imagination there appears and passes before
II material beauty, multiform the noise Of the rvu-
let, as it rushes the babbng stones the soft
murmurs OF the joyous zephyrs, the evening sky
hanging in It's sad and sober drapery the fall
len leaves tremuous with the slight breeze all are
present to the sense but growing faint and fainter
as the light Of reflection breaks in upon the exhi-
btion,
''W We have voliton where to CO.
And we may wander To and fro,
And yet may not be free"
Not in my opinion / hold with the fatalist and dis
card all kinds of free will Man is the ordained VIC
tim, the chance sport of circum tances if free will
could be proved, IT were unnecessary; and if
sary II could not be proved
Away however, with metaphysics for something
comes which, since the world began, has much more
puzzled man
&c Forth stepping, like the timid deer,
And hearing her own step with fear,
On came gentle maid"
"Oh woman"-but am my good behavior,
and must speak Of the sex only with Bentham and
Nautilus
And IT Is high time TO say something of the story.
The poem commences with the description, before
copied, of the trysting-place Of two seemingly de-
voted oyers--one maiden, ''beauiiful exceeding
y," and of much sweetness of disposition the 9TH
err gentleman (of course, with rather fashionable
notions of the inviolablny of vows They meet
and interchange the usual pledges Of eternal fidelity
which, in Loves calendar, alas too often hold
nuda facta my legal friends have it. G.. pro-
misses Of conside ration. They talk of love- of its
consultations, aud of its anxieties and uncertainties
too for, Colonel, you know that times in our
moments of fanced security, we feel foreboding
prcsen,iment of threatening dsaster-or if you
don't, do The lovers part at the ''beachen tree
and return home
CAT lovers vows, tits said Joye laughs"
His Royal Iiighness then, must have frequent
for amusement, and there is something ridiculous in
them. This story shows their folly.
Change the scene from country {, town: where,
at "great rout," the lovers meet the gentleman
is most devoted 10 widow 'upon whose ionture
land" he would place his gods Our heroine is
naughty, distant and smothers under cold de-
meanor the burning thoughts of passon--a Mount
Heca, with its snowy sides and internal fires: for
within her bosom, as the poet beautifully expresses
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"The Pelican Of passion feeds
Her ever hungry brood :"

1t is the old story of mans injustice to his nearer
angel-our strength is given to make woman suffer-
patience to them for endurance.
For lady readers the poet has composed much
good advice in regard to their proper clothing when
dressed for ball on winters night of which we
shall take no notice, lest hapyw be found cncroach
ing upon their preserved rights ~
But there IS one extract we will give them, even
at the risk of mourning displeasure
"How oft consumption, arm in arm,
Hastens with beauty TO the ball.
Gives to her cheek a tint to charm
higher, holier hue, to all;
The features of her youthful face
And to her form dropping grace,
Such as a raness summer gives
To flowers, that in the early spring
First won the bird o fold its wing
And sing the merry life il lives.
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The Bete.ien Tree.

unfortunately space will allow Us to give bat r's Or
aud last
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XIV.

How often, when the ball is over,
And by b. walks her wooing lover,
Gay with the radiance of the dance
And with the lifelong high romance,
In dwelling in her happy eye;
How oft consumption steals the sigh
On which Love reasons whence or why
With a selt-Pleasng phantasy;
Thinking that sigh is all his own
Yet wondering at its saddened tone:
More anxious still to wear the rose
Whose hectic color comes and goes
Because on lonely stem il blows:
And so her signs all for him,
Love changes not with changing breath;
And such like the martyrs hymn,
That proves the sufferer true in death
How beautiful and true as beautiful are these
lines. What pleasing melancholy they excite
like the mellowcd rays of the departing SUM- sad y
but tenderly they fall upon the heart
We must confess we like the authors serious
much more than his humorous vein. Apart from the
fact that we always agreeably sad when we
hear sweet music" if there be pathos in it, we OBJ
Ject to the introduction of any thing fippant hui
morous, Which, such CRATES harshly with our finer
feelings. 1t produces an unpleasant and unnecessary
revulsion somew hat akin TO the sensation we expc-
rence, when in descending flight of steps in The
dark, we are not aware we have reached the bottom
and attempt lower descent. With such sentiments
we shall give no example OF the authors jocose
style.
a
| encounter, between hero and " job jeremiah y
a wouldbe lover of the heroine il terminates unfor-
tunaely for the reputation of Job, who leaves the
place and goes to Texas, some other city of re-
fuge, and Of his name his discourse we hear no
more In the third canto read of the rejection OF
the hero by the widow, for whose love and stocks
he had so basely deserted the fair Helen our he
roine.
Happy, we read 10 Hudbras, is the man
-" Who has two strings tn his hov
And burns for love and money too"
Douby unhappy, however, must he be, when he
has lost both. And most miserable our hero felt
lie leaves the gay haunts of the city and his dis
tasteful associates, and rep to the spot where he
was first introduced to readers, % the beechen
tree y and while there, ng his folly and more
his fate, t ellen suddenly comes upon him. strayinQ
there from habit by accident. The lovers for
such they are yeti startled at the unexpected in
terview-and before our hero has mustered assuranc.
enough to address her, our heroine, darling upor
him look of mingled hauteur and contempt. retire.
with firm step and lofty bearing She feared the re
currence OF old feelings at that once so dear trystn,
place For some time after her abrupt departure oui
hero gives himself up to bitter musings and feelings
dependence that after some softenne are reduced
to expression in a few beautiful stanzas, Of which
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The Democratic meeting held in Philadelphia, on
Monday evening, is said TO have been the largest
held IN that city The Express, administration
paper, says " it the largest, proudest, and most
enthusiastic of any political meeting before held
in this community The name of the people on this
occasion truly legion 1t is estimated that at lest
FIFTEEN THOUSAND persons were present. From
every ward and district, the Democracy poured out in
armies with music and banners ); and when the
procession finally assembled in front of indie
pendence Hall, sight presented which caused
every patriots heart TO leap in the funess of exstatc
joy
splendid staging erected, suitable for the ac-
commodation of the officers and speakers, which
spread awning in the form of pavilion, fes-
TONED with flags and banners. On the top of the
tent above the speakers heads was placed a large
eagle, proud bird Of Jove,' which called up many
pleasing associations connected with our National
History A thousand mellow lamps and Transparent
cies threw brilliant light the animated counte-
of the people, and added much to the interest
of the scene.
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PRESIDENT TYLER.

Thank God, we have man at the head of
the Government who viii not hesitate 10 dis
charge his duty TO the country in the face of open
or secret opposilion-opposliion IN The halls oil
Congress or Observation-Disclosures proclaimed in
the Capitol or uttered from the house-tops Our
country suffers more from unwise and dishonest
legislation, than from the want OF legislation.
Therefore the President has done his country
ncalculable service by interposing his We oEs TO
prerenrthe enactment of ruinous measures
We approve his veIoes, every one OF them, and
will ever defend them. They were Democratic
acts, and we must look 10 the genuine Democ-
racv To sustain them. We care not what Is
said 10 the contrary, or who may say II, the Pre-
sidenl has planted himself on the broad Demo
cratic Republican platform, and there he will
stand or fall
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Correspondence Of the Madisonian.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. 22d, 1912.

ST. LOUIS, NO. sept 2Zd lo42
J. b. JONES, Esq,
SIR Enclosed are S., being subscription to your
sem-weekly for one year, to commence on LIST Oct
am prompted, in subscribing to the Madisonan,
Tyler and his acts plain justice. look upon him as
unustly assailed and prosecuted his acts neither Of
fetal private, calling for such relentless persecu
ton the right of conscience denied him. He
is not, according TO the r:elcs Of men, to be al
lowed the right Of thinking interpreting the laws
or Constitution for himself, in giving his as
sent to bills passed, the right of Judging Of exped
must sign all, and become mere instrument in the
hands of a party. am Wing, and have been ever
since / can remember but most cordially do
grant President Tyler the po,cers some say he as
sumes. hold to the right of the President ''the
use of the Veto," and if did not approve of BILL
should certainly not sign it, therefore cannot expect
at the Presidents hands what would not yield my
SELF That President Tyler did not sign the Bank,
$50 called,) other bills, of his friends may
regret but protest against this abuse and censure
The Bank bill could not expect him, any other
President, to sign against their scrupuous constr-
tonal opinions. sincerely regret the course pur-
sued by the Wing party and presses, in traducing the
character official and private, of the President, and
would only add, americans, pride, if nothing else,
should dictate different course. As President and
as citizen, SANDER most base is heaped upon his
head, disgraceful to the party and to the nation!
Respectfully your obedient servant.
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eve has never witnessed, ear has never heard,
and which would surpass all imagination and
confound all beliefs system OF prescription
would be introduced, which, in its ruthless ca
reer, would spare neither honorable service, nor
laborious skill--lives OF spotess integrity, nor
peculiar fitness for Systematically relations,
nor lies of blood-but would eontound, in one
universal Marian destruction, age and condition,
useful talent and patriotic labors, qualification,
just claims, aud sterling merit.
To supply stations thus forcibly vacated, the
alms-house would present its mendieants, the
pententisry its refuses, the prison It's convlcts,
Those, who had been beggared through vicious
habits, punished for illegal practices, or convict
cd OF crime, would then look forward TO an uni
versal saturnaia-a general jail delivery-and
positions once respected would be degraded TO
the situation of those selected 10 ill them.
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MIR. WEBTERS SPEECH.

We give. to-day, Mr.. Webster's great speech.
As defence of his own par, in the Admins
,ranon IL is comprehensive, able and triumph
defence Of himself i, does not profess TO GO
A vindicauon of the President, and of others
connected with the Administration, stands
apart from that of Mr.. Webster. We reserve
all further comment for the present