The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-08-21
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WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUG. 81, 1874
THE PRESIDENTS WITHDRAWAL
NEW COALITION.

THE PRESIDENTS WITHDRAWAL
NEW COALITION.
The Madisonian of yesterday contains a long
letter from President Tyler, withdrawing his name
from the canvass for the Presidency.
The Presidents reasons for withdrawing are
as intangible and indefnable as were those which
deluded him into an acceptance of the nomination.
He says something about indicating his char
acter" before the country by submitting his claims
to their confidence; and that he is now satisfied
by the action of the late House Of Representatives,
that the people dsapprove of the charges made
against him by the Wings, and hence no further
reason exists why he should suffer his name to
be run. If the reader can understand or credit
the excuse he thus assigns for Withdrawing, it is
well, but we confess that we have not been able
to do either. Captain Tyler is most stupendous
gull, and he has suffered the lying pack Of Office
hunters and "buzzards," las Mr.. Benton calls
then,) who infest the White House to impose the
most futile falsehoods upon him. His inordnate
vanity has been fattered into the belief that Polk
would be dropped, and himself taken up by the
"democracy;" and he is only just walked from his
dream in time to make good bargain Dith his
riyal.
The letter is " per Sc" "to the back bone" that
is TO say, it betrays total ignorance on the part
of the writer Of the dignity and propriety of his
position. The lowest appeals are made to the
popular prejudice, and the most unbecoming al
lusions to individuals. Messrs. Clay, Adams and
Benton, come in for the heavy censures Of the
President, and Mr.. Van Buren,, whom it might
have been expected from his present party predi-
lections he would have spared, is unceremonous-
ly hauled over" because he thought proper to
dissent from the propriety of immediate annexa-
ton.
In announcing the withdrawal of Captain Tyler
from the contest for the Presidency, we think
we hear our readers asking, swell, what Of
it?" And if it had been otherwlse-if he had
thought proper to declare that he would not with
draw-still the same question would have been
pertinent, "what of it,"
At most, Captain Tyler could only have re-
ceived the vote of single State-Accomac -
and as there are twenty-six others in the Union
to be divided between Messrs Clay and Polk, it
would have been matter of little consequence
what course his Contingency thinks proper to
take. "
The President affects to draw class lines in the
ranks of the Wings, and eschewng all right TO
the sympathy of those he terms Federalists, he
appeals very strongly to the other class, whom he
calls Republicans - appeals for what for Mr..
Polk! Having withdrawn from the contest We can
see no reason why he should make such appeals to
~. De-, Inuy
unless he expects to transfer their sympathy for
him to Mr.. Polk; and, if such is the case, what,
we ask, is the consideration p what are the
terms of the coalition ?-what is he to get !-and
what are his friends to get?
Captain Tyler sets up claim to the purest
democratic" lineage-if he is to be believed,
he was died in the wool Democrat and that
he has been, some how or other, josled into
the ranks of the Wings, or Federalists, as he is
pleased to term them. He delicatey attributes
the accident by which he became Wing to some
rather latitudinous doctrines which appeared in
the celebrated Proclamation of his dear old friend
General Jackson-that is TO say, he Joined the
Wings, because the great leader of the so.ca)ed
democracy" avowed himself Federast. 1t is
fair to infer from this admission, that those uoho
did not Join The Wings at The same time, mere Fed
eralists likeoise. The inference is inevitable. He,
Captain John Tyler, joined the Wings, because
he ascertained that General Jackson was Fed
eralist and hence it is clear that those who ad-
hered to General Jackson are Federalists. And
who adhered to him? Who sustained the Pro-
clamation and Force Bill! Let us see There
is James X. Polk and George M Dallas, James
Buchanan, Levi Woodbury., C. ]. Ingersol, Ben
jamn Tappan, Sas Wright, B. F. Butler, Gov
ernor Cass-in word, the whole party with which
Tyler now coaesces and claims affinity from