Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-06-12
A LETTER FROM Ex-PREsIDENT TYLER.


but courteous appeal from us to his fellowctizens
by the last President of the United States, that we
should transfer to our columns the following Letter
from Mr.. TYLER, which we find in the Richmond
Enquirer of Saturday last:
TO The Editors Of the Richmond Enquirer:
have been constantly and increasingly the object OF vio
lent attack during and since the period that by an act OF an
al-wise Providence, and through voon of my own the
powers and duties of the Executive devolved upon
to have become quite Indifferent what should be said
of me by others. Hence have remained silent amid the
attacks Of the public press the fumnatons of Congressional
orators and the bright scntatons Of wit which festive
sions have brought forth my expense Secure in the pos
session Of my integrity, have for the most part smiled
the assumptions of bad motives for my conduct which had
pure Of emanaon than in the bad motives Of those
who orr iated them Nay, further-when review the
course my Administration and its efforts o The puSiio
good crowned with complete success in the accomplishment
of every important save one, which was suggested
proposedwhen compare the actual condition of the
try the 4th April, ls4, with what it was the 4h of
March, ls45-and when know that after the struggles Of
the pee day shall have passed away and those who have
taken part them shall have sunk into their graves the great
part not be remembered impartial history will not
fail to write faithful account Of all my actions, may well be
let the bawlng demagogue the sly ntguer in
facts of ny public life matters of record, and neither
be expunged altered The impartial future will see the
noce in the act and the just historian will look the good
or evil only which will have been developed, and find in the
other Of of praise To this ordeal
submit myself without fear. My only soctude is that
lectures and supposions and naked statements
aned and unsustanab should be regarded authentic,
merely because the from which they flow esteemed
respectable 1t is to guard against this, in reference to
of the most prominent of my Administration, that
address you, and, through you, the public.
In the National Inteligencer of the 25h Maya paper
which desevedy ranks amongst the most respectable journals
of the day, and which, along with others of the same high
class will be hereafter regarded of the lights of history
following has arrested my attention Under the
head Of an article "The Administration and its Organ" it
holds the following language
'Its editor speaking of the editor of the Unon had not
been week installed in his present official station, before
he began to foeel the existing with Mexico, the curse
of which, by his influential agency the Texas annexation
scheme he has had to do in nlcng upon the coun
try than any other person Whatever NOT eccephng fr
dent Tyler himself the specuLaors in 1crds stocks and
lands by rhom he surrounded, counsed, and I'M
| PEELED to that unaoise measure
Now, do object to the ascphon of great in
fuencc Mr. Rche then senior editor of the Richmond
Enquirer in aiding carry the Of Texas annexa
on Far from it, The Of that able and talented edi
has been sensby felt all questions of public policy 70
more than quarter of century and do cheeruly comics
that when the Enquirer espoused the Texas felt in
creased assurance of the ultimate of that grea
measure Nor do into any contest whethe
the exation Of Texas either the immediate
Of e existing Mexican The editors Of the Intel
gencer and their able ally in the antannexaton tn
Hon. Thomas Hart Benton may have this either way tina
they please will not stop to inquire whether, if tn
treaty had been ratified by the Senate should have ha
not but, taking into consideration that at that mo
there existed prospect of immediate collision witt
Great Britain the Oregon question, and far from il
that stronger feeling Of amy had been produced between
the countries by the then negotiation of the Ash
burton treaty. may well be doubted whether Mexico with
the hope Of aid from any quarter would have
waged the United States for matter in which she
had no right interest," both having been conquered from her
San Jacnto and the conquest recognised by the whole
world. When she struck her first blow Gen. Taylor,
relations with Great Britain had undergone material change,
and stood, the world believed IN most critical condition.
Equally far from canvassng, at this time of day, the
wisdom or its opposite of Texas annexation. Unwse the
editors and others have from the first declared be- The
large majority Of the people of the United States have differed
with them in opinion and the popular judgment having been
formally entered up in favor of the measure the minority
should certainly be permitted to utter their complaints when
they please and as they please.
But what do complain Of is that the editors should
placed in the company, and under the influence of those
Of whose individuality have not the slightest knowledge
the suecuaors in Texas stock and lands by whom he was
surrounded counseed and mpeed that unwse
Now the editors have decided advantage. any
spectators Texan stocks lands counseed much less
mpeed action upon that subject Idecae myself be
wholly ignorant of the fact. Certain is that owned
foot of Texas land dollar Of Texas stock in my life
do understand the editors of the Inelgence intending
to intimate any such thing The plain truth is that
nothing but the country and the ,Oho counyno this
that section this that local interest but the wHoLE-he
good the strength, the happiness, the glory of the whole
country the Nor tunl received authentic
information that other nations exerng all their efforts to
induce of action the part of Texas, at war, as
firmly believed, with the permanent interests OF the United
States that gave directions my amented friend, Abel
Uphur then Secretary of State to break up and scatter to
the winds the web Of their ntgues by direct proposition for
annexation advised with one, consulted with one
save him. in taking the initiative. knew no holders of
stocks owners lands in the matter " and that the
public considerations which have before referred to alone
impeIed direct the negotiation. Nay, may even
further and declare that before the initiative taken, and
when the peminares nearly all arranged, their com
peon being alone prevented by the death OF Mr. Uphur and
the appointment OF adjunct commissioner to Mr. an
Zandt by Texas have believe that the holders
Of stock or owners OF land knew any hing of what
going secrecy enoned indlspensaby neces
sary avoid awakening into action what we had reason to
expect more subtle and still active intrigue the part
Of other Governments order TO counerval So much
Ihave felt myself constrained say, with view to true
history Of the measure in its ogin-and trust that what
have said will be sufficient relieve the minds Of the respec
table editors ntegencer of the impressions under which
they have seemed labor and to which they have given ut
terance.
As the thousand and newspaper paragraphs, which
would egn persuade the country that leading strings
during my Of service, first under the influence OF this
man and then of that man, care but little and quite in
different to the with which sometimes the
myad