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reply 10 a committee inviting him TO partake O
the celebration at Frankfort, Kentucky. HI
shows up Mr.. Tyler 10 the real attitude in which
he stands before the country.
RIcHMoND, October ), 1912.
Gentlemen--I have been honored with the re
ceipt Of your favor Of the 23d September, invi
ing mo TO a Wing festival, TO be held at or nea
Frankfort on the 26,h Of the presen, month, in
which you say, "you would like 10 meet me al
the festive board" and promise me "a welcome
in the cordial style of old fashioned Kentucky
hospitality"
OF the generous and warm hearted hospitality
Of the people Of your State, one can doubt,
that has ever travelled through it, It can only be
surpassed ny their patriotic devotion TO high po-
tical principle 10 all times, and through all chan
ges and reverses Of fortune.
| In the summer Of 1889, travelled through
Kentucky, on my way TO the far west, and from
tha, time have earnestly desired 10 renew my
visit, and there is no part Of il to which | could
go with moro pleasure, than the very spot to
which you invite me, not only because have
some highly cherished personal friends among
your Citizens, but because ] am under great
obligations 10 my political brethren Of Frankfort,
who have given me some evidence that they were
not Indifferent to the humble part it has been my
lot to play the public stage; but absence Of
nine months from home, IN attendance on Con
gross, with tho period almost al hand when shall
have 10 repair again 10 that great theatre OF poIti
cal action, will render it impossible for
leave home 80 long would be necessary to make
such trip You must therefore, tnke the will
for the deed, with the assuraDce that both my
mind and heart will be with you, uniting in all
that may be calculated to promote Wing princi-
Piles and Wing success, and to repair The disasters
that follow ed in ''hot haste" upon the heels Of our
never to be forgotten triumph of 1910
reference to this subject reminds me Of
what some Of you will recoect, that on the
sion to which have alluded ] travelled in COM
wi he IF hos hon
then had every reason TO believe high
spirited, true sou!ed, genuine Wing; one who, on
all occasions, peached the true whig doctrine
Bank. Distribution, Tariff and all-but the Bank
chiefly md in particular; denounced in the strong
est terms, the Democracy of which he now claims
to BIO one, for the ruin they had brought the
country, not less by the folly and madness Of
their measures, than the mere,r,cious wickedness
attending their purposes; damned Loco Focoism
with unspaHing pains, as much for its democrat.
izing Influences, as for its most destructive and
detestabe heresles; extolled MIR. Clay far beyond
the reach Of comparison with any living man,
and ranked him only with the greatest benefac.
tors OF the age that had passed, until, by his
dor IN the wing cause, and the iervor Of his op
position TO the party then in power, he wormed
himself into the confidence aud sympathy of
those he clearly saw, at that day. were soon to be
n iri"rr!h.. - Is. ~-I fn uu by bod.
ding crocodile tears over the defeat of Mr.. Clay
at the Harrisburg Convention, and making pro>
LESSONS OF change of opinion on the sub Iect of a
bank, to Governor Owen, Che Chairman Of The
Committee Of Nomlnations,) and others, he secu-
red for himself the nomination for the second Of
flee IN the Government
With all the prohgacy and degeneracy of the
presen, day, the disregard of moral obligation,
and reputation OF solemn contracts, who could
have believed il possible, that within few
mon, tbs after this mans accession to office, he
should have proved The only obs acle to the estab-
Ishment of Bank, renowned Distribution. and
forced its repeal, vetoed Tariff bill, recomrnen
ded himself to the favor of the L,cotoco party
and claimed their support for the fatal stab he
claimed TO have given the Wing party; rejoiced
The success Of Locofocos. claimed each defeat
of tho Wings Tyler victory, denounced those,
by whose votes alone he had been elevated, as
Federaiists. tories and des,ructives, and to have
the government with an exclusive
reference to the defeat Of Mr.. CLAW at the next
election, whom he thought at the time Of his own
election to be the only fit man in the nation 10
fill the place? All this has he done, and now (to
use the parliamentary phra seology Of the Locofo- |!
COSY is ''employed by the job' by men who spurn
his advances, and shun all connexion with him
with much loa,hing md disgust they would
kick filthy out of gentleman's parlor, as
soon the jobs performed. They tickle him
for a veio-,t comes; and they laugh at him for
a fool. They coax him for al office-he grat6es
them; and they denounce him as knave. They
fatier him for the removal OF worthy Wing Of
his own appoin,ment-he complies; and they de-
soise him for a traitor.
But there is part of that Faneu Hall speech
tina, should net go unobserved should it be /
allowed TO pass unexplained Upon Subjects OF i
high and grave Importance affecting nations
veal, man has the right to trf1e or prevaricate,
and a public agent, The peoples representative,
least of ALL
Within few days,of that on which the FaneuIl
Hall speech was made, the Madisonian, in refer
ence 10 Mr.. Tyler and the Bank, sad-"WIth a
view to set this matter forever rest, dis.
tinctly declare, that between the nomination and
election Of Mr.. Tyler 10 the Vice Presidency, and
during the intermediate session of Congress, Mr..
Tyler declared that his views ia respect TO the
of bank were unchanged and
that if President, he could never consent 10 APP