The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-04-26
NEW YORK HERALD.
Vew York, Friday, April 30 Is4A.
The Rival MaKiclsns, and the Great Tyler
Movement at last.

For many long months We have been expecting
and awaiting, and looking and longing, for the
commencement of the Great Tyler Movement.
Day after day and week after week. John Jones's
organ-hke the voice of one crying in the wilder
ness-has been proclaiming the speedy advent OF
the Tyler forces in all their omnipotence, but sill
not even the dust of the coming host could be des-
cried IN the distant horizon Bat, at last, when
the hearts of the faithful had began in the extrem
ty of disappointed hope, to excaim, like the I'M
believing Jews of old, 'Where is the promise of
this coming ~ the great Tyler movement sweeps
over us like a sudden thunderstorm on a sultry
summer eve among the mountains. Yesterday, the
Tyler Convention, nearly three hundred strong, as
sembled in Washington Hall, and New York was,
indeed, at last, evidently, decidedly clearly, une-
quvocaly sin notion
New York has hitherto been most resignedly
under the Influence of little magician, who dwes
amid the mystic groves of Underwood. But
lesser magician still has entered the field and from
the specimen he has given of his powers, 1t Is
clear that the little necromancer up the Hudson is
not worthy TO unfasten the strings of his busklns.
Captain Bob Tyler is this magician. Abandoning
the muses. and the laurel crown, Captain Bob has
resolved, for This year, to be the great political
master-splrt of this republic, and TO show that he
can almost as well act as describe the hero of an
epic. Like the man in Athens who, on being
asked why he voted for the Ostracism OF Arstldes,
replied sob l am tired of hearing him always
called 'the Just'' Captain Bob has got heartily
tired of hearing Martin Van Buren, called all the
time the little magician, and has resolved to show
the world that he is a greater And Is he not
Why here, in three or four weeks, he effects what
John Jones and the whole Tylerhost couldn't do in
a year. With DR.. Sutherland on one hand, and
Duff Green on the other he takes up the Custom
House in his right hand and the Post Office IN his
leit-makes Curtis, Graham, and all the Office
holders dance to his music, and with one wave of
his wand, makes New York, from Sandy Hook to
Buffalo, start up In ecstacy to shout the name of
his sire, so, that throughout all Its borders,
John Tyler, the woods John Tyler the floods,
John Tyler the hollow mountains ring !"
Talk of magic. talk of the egg-hatching machine !
talk of mesmersm talk of the witches in Mac
beth what is all this to magician Bob! Did we
not see with our eyes the Convention! Did
we not that there three hundred living,
and breathing and talking men in Washington
Hall yesterday! Now read the report of the
Notwithstanding, if you can, that the movement
has not commenced-that it is not sweeping all be-
fore it, Yes, there is the evidence, tangible and
undeniable, of the potency of the superlatlvely
small magcans, and the briliancy of the prospects
of Captain John Tyler.
But magic is thing and stubborn destiny is
another. Notwithstanding all this tremendous
movement, with Captain Bob Tyler at its head and
Duff Green at its tail, Van Buren, must be nom-
mated at the Baltimore Convention. The only ef-
feet of this Convention in the great movement of
parties may be, 10 aid in the election of Clay, Or
perchance, to operate in favor of Mr.. Calhoun in
the contest of lS4S.