Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-05-25
WASHINGTON, May -, 1858.
To w. d. IpdiLach, Esq,
Editor of the Errniug Star:

To w. D. WdEach, ESQ.,
Editor of the Erening Star:
SIR: In your paper of the 18th May, in an article
purportinr TO hs original with you, headed The
Wealth OF our Statement when you come 10 speak
of ( x.President Tyler, you say az follows, VIZ:
John Tyler is worth fifty thousand dollars. BE-
fore he reached the Presidency hs was q oankruptI
In office he husbanded his means, and then narfieda
rich WIFE,"
have every reason to believe, from the KIND sen.
,ineuts YOU have usually avowed loward FL. President
Tyler and his family, that this tissue OF ialsehoods
entirely escaped your eye before its Insertion I'D your
I YOUR frlsa der h I am ife ofcea H 10 AK IL tina; you Slr retract it,
and also publish this note.
John Tyler, before he was President, never was
a bankrupt. Besides paying, az surety for others,
the day of his manhood, that be had no, ample means
always at hand to meet every obligation rssting upon
him. The real estate he now owns is but a transfer
of the real estate he then owned; and the slave pro
perty he now owns is the Identical slave property he
Men owned. True, both have largely increased in
valve; but what their value is | shall not Jay, either
to crafty private or public curiosity. La it suffice
TO say, that he will die IA he has poor
or rich-an honest man, and no mans debtG.
Johr Tyler, rs President, followed the example Of
his great predecessors in that high office fIomVirginia,
and literally expended upon the public ever, cent Of
the salary he received from the public. II epaid out
of his salary for every thing he used in the %lresiden-
tal Mansion, save the furniture he found th,re, and
which wa never renewed III HE llIHo, lDTO1kn me
want of All appropriation from Congress. He paid
for his own fuel, his own lights-eyeu to those in the
street, his own servants, his own door keepers, his
own steward, and his own secretary and assistant
clerks. How has all this been since, and how il it
now'
Tie man who, among other things, annexed the
broad realm of Texas to the Confederacy; who settled
the North Eastern Boundary and all our impending
foreign difficulties; who opened up our trade with
China; who restored a bankrupt Treasury; who res.
cued the country from q bankrupt condition, attended
BY universal ruin and disaster in every avenue Of
trade; who hammered the veto through the skull Of
the monster bank, and destroyed it forever; who kept
and administered in every Department of the Gov.
eminent It's entire revenues for four years nearly,
without the loss Of a dollar by negligence, fraud
nr force, aud without the realization of a cent to
himself or family; who reinvgorsted the army,
elevated, Scott, Taylor, Worth Wool and Riley
to its head, and thus closed tie Florida war and
held Mexico in awe; who raised the Navy to its high
est and noblest mark, and held s~quadrons in every
SEA; who established the National Observatory and
placed Maury at its head; who reformed the Coast
Survey and placed Bachs at it- head; aud who, last,
but not least, retrieved the Democratic party from lie
overwhelming aud anulhilnting defeat of 1910, aud
raised il again IL power;-tlism INN can afford 10 emile,
~ he does and always has done, at the impotent
Islander Of tn. hour, reliant Oh history.
John Tyler did ,ingly and all ;hese things. They
.piac. him equally above poverty and riches. ilis
family motto il Lu9urIn Ct egsNat conmofiS c,d0Nt.
] have the honor 10 be, very respectfully, yours,
JOHN TYLER, JR.