, 1862-05-28
ONE OF JOHN TYLERsS POST
0H1TS,

The readers Of the public journals will I
not fail to recollect the course Of Ex-Presi-
dent Tyler at the one~horse Congress-the |
Peace Convention in Washington in Feb |
ruary, 1851. With the loudest professions |
Of patriotism on his lips. he made himself |
the mouth piece Of the Border States and
the special ido1 Of the compromisers Of that
period. His claim to occupy the position
was based on his supposed loyalty to the
Union, his willingness to submit to the Will
Of the people us expressed in the election
of 1860, and his earnest desire to harmon
ize all differences between the sections, and
10 go on in peace as before. His character
for fairness was good deal damaged by
the speech made by him on his return to
those who sent him; but his friends Of the
compromising party in the North were
willing to believe that the bitterness Of his
words and the tierceness Of his threats were
due to q natural disappointment at the
result Of his supposed pccidc endeavors
He is dead now, and has gone to his own
place; but it is not uncharitable to expose,
even at this late day, the wicked duplicity
ard treachery which marked his whole
course On this Union question.
We hare in our possession manuscript
article IN Mr. Tyler's Handwriting, appa-
rently ono OF series written for some Wiz
ginia newspaper, anterior to the election
Of Lincoln, in which the question, Secession
r.. Union, is discussed in the Elk Presidents
well known style, and in manner that
can leave no doubt that he was at that tinae
and ever af'erward, q Thoroughbred dis
unionist-as rank and malignant d traitor
as ever conspifed against the liberties ot
mankind. The article opens thus:
the sEcEas1oS OF THE South AND NEW Gov.
FEDERATION NEcE:aAnT TO TIE PRESENTATION OF
CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY AsD soc1A1. MORALITY
Having unfolded the designs Of Black Repabl
canlrm and traced their sequences. politically, ID
the eubrereton of the Republic and the establish
men. Of EMPIRE and, socially, to the prostr4t1o1
oftlle Domestic Altar and the universal spread
Concnb!nsgc; ending, on the one hand IN Dictato
rial Tyranny, and, On the other hand, in mos
Ubiquitous pollutions, az the inevitable fruits Of
Government without Constitution or pr.ncipl,
OF conservatism, and Of Society.withonta Patri
1rcnA institution, Or an element OF Snbozdinztion
let us now consider the consequences to be derives
in both respects from Southern Secession and ,
Ncw Confederation.
From THIS text the President of IN,
tPcace Convention" proceeds tbrono1
twelve closely written fools-cap pages ~
riviDg very eafly at the conclusion exnrese =
cd in the following:
The ascendancy Of the Klaek Republican na7t
in 1860 81 might hasten, and that Of the Deao.4att
patty might retsrd, the u1timste doom that awa.,
the South In the Union; but neither can measu.,
bly, al.cr the terrible catastrophe Of the South, /
be followed BY the subrersion Of Constitutions
Liberty and Social Morality, under the FREEDOM
mating influences Of the North. From these =
cults there il Iut one sure mode Of escape, II
but one portion Of safety for the South, and the
are Secession and New confsdezation!: -:
We need say no more to establish Il
character Of the paper before us; nor nee
We add :word TO prove that In his pr
tended efforts for pesce; as the Preside1