Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-05-20
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Ex-PREsIpENr TrLER.-A brief article, de-
scriptive of the various ex-Presidents of tho
United States after their service in that. ca
pacity, was copied, among other selected articles,
into the Star day or two since, to which our
attention is drawn for the first time By the com
munication printed below which, in explaining
its incorrectness in an important particular,
does no more than sheer justice to the distin-
guished statesman to whom it refers:
- WASHINGTON, May 10, 1859.
To W. ID. Walldeh, ESQ,
Editor of the ErsRing Star:
Sic: In your paper Of the 18th May, In an article
purporting to be original with you, headed "The
Wealth Of our Statesmen, ~ when you come to
speak Of ex President Tyler, you say as follows
viz: -..-.-
John Tyler is worth fifty Thousand dollars
Before he reached the Presidency he was bank
rupt In office he husbanded his means, and then
married u rich wife"
/ have every reason to believe, from the kind
sentiments you have usually avowed towards ex.
President Tyler and his family, that this tissue
of falsehoeds entirely escaped your eve before its
insertion In your journal; bat, being there, and
having gone before your readers, / am forced to
ask that you retTact 1t, and also publish this note
John Tyler, before he was T. esident. never
was bankrupt. Besides paying, as surety for
been, from the day Of his manhood, that he had
not ample means always ut hand to meet every
ooilgation resting upon him. The real estate lie
now owns Is but transfer Of the real estate he
men owned; and the slave property he now owns
Is the identical slave property he then owned
True, both have largely inc eased In value; bnt
what their value is shall not say, either to graf
lily private or public curiosity. Let Il suffice TO
say, that he will die as he has lived-wbetber
poor or rich-an honest man, and no mans
debtor
IoI,., TIL
pie Of his great predecessors in that high Office
from Virginia, and literally ex pended upon the
Publlc every cent OF the salary he received from
the public. he paid ont Of his salary for every
thing he used Ina the Presidential Mansion, save
the furniture he found there, and which was
never renewed I'm his time, through the want of
an appropriation from Congress. He paid for
his own fuel, his own liyhts-even to those I'm the
street, his own servants. his own doorkeepers
his own steward, and his own secretary and as
sistant clerks: How has all this been since, aud
how Is ID now
The NAV who, among other things anne xed
the broad realm Of Texas to the Confederacy;
who settled the Northeastern Boundary and All
| our impending foreign difficulties who opened
up our trade with China; who restored bank
ruPt Treasury; who rescued the country from
bankrupt condition, attended hy universal ruin
ana disaster In every avenue Of trade; who ham
mered the veto through the skull Of the monster
bank, and destroyed II forever; who kept and ad /.
mlnistered in every Department Of the Govern
mem Its entire revenues for four years neatly,
without the loss OF dollar by negli gence, fraud
or force, and without the realization of cent to
himself or family; who reinvigorated the army,
elevated Scott, Taylor, Worth, Wool and Riley
| to lis bead, and thus closed the Florida war and
held Mexico in awe; who raised the Navy to its
| highest and nobiest mark, aud held sauadrons
| In every sea; who established the National OBJ
| servatory ard placed Marry at its head: who re-
formed the Coast Survey and placed Bache at its
head; and who, last, but not least retrieved the
| Democratic party from its Overwhelming and an.
Initiating defeat Of 1880, and raised il again to
power;-this man can afford to smile as he does
ana always has done at the impotent Islander of
| the hour, reliant on history.
| John Tyler did singly and all these things
es. His family motto Is Luxxria ct egestds com.
| mods csdant.
have the honor to be, very respectfully yours,
JOHN 'FyJrp In