Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-01-30
From the Now-York Hcrald.l

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From the New-York Herad1
THE DEATH OF Bx-PRESIDENT TYLER. |
Our latest intelligence from the rebel States
informs US that the venerable ex-President John |
Tyler departed this life at Richmond, Va, on
Friday Jan. H. at the advanced age of seventy
two years. This announcement has no political
or national significance or importance, and Mr.. !
Tyler's course in advocating rebellion had long
since alicnated from him all personal sympathy
and rcspcct-that due to age alone excepted
To the usual comparative obscurity which
awaits the eX-Presdens of this Republic, and
TO the shades of declining years, Mr.. Tyler ad-
dcd the darker gloom of treason, and closed
his life in the capital of the rebels. surrounded
by armed traitors, and making the last weary
days of his long life Infamous by earnestly as
sisting awretched attempt TO break up the gov
ernment of that country over whose destinies
he had once presided, and in whose service he
had enjoyed at least official honors. lie died,
therefore unmourned and unhonored, and the
interesting "reminiscences which his career sug-
gests alone make his death noticeable Mr..
Tyler has been most happily called an "acciden-
tai President" lie came of one of the first
Virginia families, and, before the memorable
"hurd cider campaign" had represented his
State in Congress- both in the House of Rep
resentatves and in the Senate, where he was
noted chiefly as a Democratic wit and raconteur
of CHOICE humorous stories When the revul-
sion of politics, consequent upon the crisis of
'37 and the delalcaion in Van Buren's admin
istration, carried Tippccanoe Harrison into the
Presidential chair in lS40 the Wings selected
John Tyler as Vice President merely because
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of Virginia for their party, and not because of
his political anteccdents-for he had always
been a strong Democrat--nor on account of his
personal popularity. a song prevalent at that
time expressed the general opinion OF Mr.. Iy-
ler's qualifications in the couplet-
We vote for Tyler, therefore,
Without why or wherefore.
That tremendous political campaign resulted
in the election of lIarreon and Tyler, as it
would have resulted in the election of any can
didates supported by henry Clay, hard cider,
log cabins, coons and songs of unprecedented
popularity. The enthusiasm of the people was
unbounded, and from the outset Van Buren,
had not the ghost of chance of success. His
requiem was chanted all over the land, in rude
log cabins, with drinks of hard cider to clear
the throats Of the singers, in the glorious old
chorus
OH what has caused thfs great commotion,
Northumberland
All the country through;
1t is the ball a rolling on
For Iippccanoe
And Tyler, too
For rippccanoc and Tyler, tool
And with them well beat little Van
Van! Yah, Van!
For van is u used up man!
Without a why or wherefore the Wings put
int tirl OH nnt i,Vli
anti-bank politician, vino was designed to de-
feat their most cherished schemes. Maddened
with greed for the offices to which they had
seldom before had access, the Wings worried
and badgcred poor Harrison, whose simple cam
paigning experience little fitted him to cncoun-
ter this office hunters, until at the end of
month they had succeeded in efectualy running
their own chances by killing the hero of Tip
pecano and making Tyler the accidental"
President. 1t will be remembered that John
Minor Botts of Virginia, accompanied Tyler
to Washington to assist him in assuming the
Presidential purple Already rumors of Tyler's
Democratic procliyities had taken wind, and
Bolts thought it prudent to sleep in the same
bed with the "accidental" Chief Magistrate, so
as to endeavor to keep him true to the Wing
faith, and see that he did not change his polit-
cal coat upon the morning of his Inauguration.
This bedfellowship has become historical and
| it is generally supposed that Tyler kicked Bolts
out upon the floor that night, so completely did
the "accdental" President turn his back upon
the party and veto any attempt at pure Wing
legislation, and 80 energelicaly did Bolts ex-
claim in speaking of Tyler and his vetoes-
1--WE must head him or de!' During his term
of Office, Mr.. TYLER was a sensational President.
| Eyervthing he did astonished his party, and
| took the country by surprise. a.d he worked
the official guillotine with marvellous and I'M
| precedentcd rapidity and zeal. lie left Office
! cordially hated by the Whigs, and so distrusted
hv the Democrats that they refused to renomi-
nate him. At the age of ffty-two Mr.. Tyler
c;,y and n,oav norsors vrt remember the ex-
citement he created BY driving down Broad
way, in "A coach and four, on his wedding day