New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-04-12
THE TRIBUNE.


for some days on our table, bat overlaid by more
pressing cares and duties Even now we have but
partially perused its ~ well filled pages, but all
we have read is so good that We are eagerly await
ing time TO read the residue 'Thiers' French Re-
vou,ion' Is the text OF graphic and impressive es-
say while Some Words with Mummy though
marked by Mr.. Poc's extravaganza OF fancy, Is a
most amusing rebuke TO the vanity and concei' OF
the Nineteenth Century. About Birds and Au-
dubon must interest every lover Of the winged
Tribes, while Watonisna displays the treasures OF
the lake and brook 10 the gaze oil the intellectual
angler How shall Life be made the most OF p
fruitful theme-is treated as Christian phloso-
phcr should treat IT, A Railroad 10 the Pacific
is made the text of most suggestive geographical
and statistical paper But we cannot speak farther
of the more strictly Literary contents Of the Re
view.
The Las, Chief Executive is the title Of the
opening or Political article, which, in the compass
of ten pages, gives The history and philosophy Of
Tylerism. The following extract will speak It's
character:
'srhe moral Of this strange, instructive history s
one which cannot be too early or too deepy I'M
pressed on the understandings and hearts OF our
piring eager youth. From the grave OF Mr.. Ty
savs To every attentive soul, BE TRUE" False
hood, unfaithfulness, discrimination, treachery-
these may seem 10 prosper Tor the moment, but tie
eternal laws oil the Universe are against them and
must prevail A brief hour OF hollow aud tot'erIng
triumph is all that the most brilliant and perfect sue
cess III lii-dolng eau hope Tor
Had Mr. Tyler been true man, he could not
have overrued aud defeated the action OF Congress
nearly every important measure. except on the
most Imperative aud powerful convictions OF duly
He must have realized that the representatives oil
the People (not by accident, but by deliberate Sc
lsc,lon,) elected either simultaneously or subse-
qurntt 10 the choice OF President and Vice Prcsl
dent, were far more likely 10 understand the wants
and requirements ofthe country than he alone could
be. He must have felt that the unprecedented
manner OF hi. unexpected elevation 10 the Prtsi-
dency, instead of the man designated for that post
by the People, and who stood publicly pledged 10
unite perecting such measures with regard 10 the
currency, the wisdom oil Congress should devise,
furnished strong additional reason for his torbear
INK the exercise of the extreme power OF the Veto.
He'must have been tortured by the thought that the
act which he medated was certain 10 send pang
of disappointment and chagrln 10 nearly every heart
that had beat with JOY al the tIdngs OF his election
and be hailed with shouts OF emulation ana delight
by every relentless adversary OF that cause winch
had gu honored him, and 10 which he had protested
DEVOTION He must have known that wherever his
Ve,oes should reach a rude opening IN the wilder
ness saw-mill. a shlnglc ehanly, the ready IN
sijnct OF every Wing, however IMMERSED III public
Ia lofty trusts may be- vanished, would proclaim
him a designing traitor. Must not an upright man
have shrunk from the confusion OF his Trends, ana
the eyultallon vt his adverareS mus suoweu,
as more To be dreaded than death Must he not
have sought If need were, IN the resignation oil his
accidental pusionan escape from an alternative so
full OF horror
"But admit that the Veto OF the first Bank bill was
impeled hv Mr. Tyler's cherished convc,lons-ad
nit that he knew not what he did, when, IN the
tod b,tl HT-.
Indignation, he SrGcd the PREPARATION and dictated
the provisions ot IA Sank bill which he 'eoiad assent
to(and his is stretch charity beyond the oounos
of Observation-Disclosures that the second Bank Y eto
may IN some way be justified-who can attempt 10
Justify his Veto at that most important and pa
uenIly elaborated measure. the INST ARM OH oi
lSi2 because it provided Tor the continuance oi
the Land Distribution to the States ! That Land
Distribution had formed one OF the great practical
tests party affinity for the preceding ten years -
The Distribution was originated, and ably. untlr.
incly advocated by Mr.. Clay whom Mr. ~ Ter had
protested SO realously 10 support IN 1881; II had
been advocated by Nj. 1gto' htwS'B, IN Report
10 the Virginia Legislature IN his letter QSiuD 10
Mr.. Robinson, Jun of Pittsburgh Pa. and at other
times The Wing party and lie were alike com
mitted 10 that measure and his letter TO MI hob
inson, rebutting charge preferred against nm ~
Antl-TariiiSm, paiuly set to!Ih The entire WINK
doctrine on the subject, VIZ snttlclent revenue !"
be raised BY means OF a Tariff exclusively. and ne
Land Proceeds 10 be fairly and permanently divided
among the States OF the Union. And yet THIS same
John TYLER vetoed the great beneficent measures oi
the Wing Congress. solely on The ground O! lis pro
viding for this Distribution and Congress was com
PEELED 10 surrender il, or leave the Government
without the means OF subsistence. Inns was the
second time that this benign measure oil harmony
and peace with regard the Public Lands has been
crushed beneath the weight OF Presidential Veto,
purely because lis author was Henry Clay
f" But lei Us imagine that some mlrG can be found
so peculiarly constructed as 10 find 40 difficulty 10
reconc.ne with Integrity and good talth The whole
series OF Mr., Tyler's Vetoes-to discover some
principle en- which he may ejuStied IN accepting
a nomination as Wing, and yet using the power
thence resulting 10 thwer, and defeat the Wings on
every important measure on which they had ap-
peaed 20 the country-how shall he, how can he,
justify Mr.. Tyiers sweeping removal from office Ct
Whigsi 10 make room Tor thelr nveterate opponents
The Wings had been rlsidiy excluded from Once
during the twelve preceding years; they had Ia
bored faithfully with aud for Mr.. Tyler IN the great
contest o, 1910; they had been appointed 10 ounce
IN part bv General Harrison. the remainder by nun
self But MIR. TYLER sees til TO differ from the Wing
majority of Congress on most vital administrative
Observation-Disclosures and alienation ensne-and
he proceeds 10 remove from Office neatly all those
who had supported, and put IN their places men
who had vchcmentiy opposed INN, some OF whnm
were the very men he had previously Supplemented
Was ,.ct here PaiPable confession on his part, not
merely OF reachely, bu; OF Conscious trescheIy
The closing scene Of his miserable public life
the Gradual NdSilNs away Oi the raNenOuS CROWD
which 50 recently beslesed the portals Of the Exc
cu,ive Mansion--thc shameless transfer OF their
sycophancy 10 the prospective dispenser OF Urea
s1ry manna--,hc solitude (save when entertainment
was psovidci) ot those dFs9ry hours of waning,
vanishing srea,ness-why SHOULD we attemp, 10
portTay Personally. Mr. TYLER has passed into
ti,tins otscuri;y, which his friends must nope may
be Disturbed by no future acciden; Be reflection
and peu,ence the companions OF has future years."
sec General uarr.ons speech a, Dayton. Ohio. s>p;.
10Th, lSio
We have already EXPRESSED our belief that the
American Review prefers strong CLAIMS 10 the
general and hearty support of the Wing party he
g,rded merely Literary work, II has no superior
among our American periodicals., while lis single
ESSAY Monthly on some leading Political topic can
not fad 10 do much toward the diffusion Of sound
principles aud correct views among our reading
Peonl- BIT lts power 10 do good will depend en-.