Litchfield enquirer., 1862-01-30
JOHN TYLER.

John Tyler is dead, at Richmond. Va, aged 72. He was born in Charles County, Va. in l790, and elected to the Legislature of that state when 25 years old. The next year he was cho. sen to Congress (House,) and served through three terms with no particular distinction. A few years later, he was chosen Governor of hls State by the Legislature, and in l627 was cleo ted to the U. s. Senate-all the Adams combln- | ing with minority of the Jackson men in his support, in order to cut John Randolph, whose unmeasured vituperation of Adams and Clay made their friends willing to unite on any one who could beat him. Mr. Tyler was Crawford Jackson Calhoun man, but opposed the removal of the U. s. deposits from the U. s. Bank by Gen. Jacksons order, and was in 1886 instruct cd out of the Senate on that issue, having pre- yiously been very strongly sustained by the Leg. islature. He was thus thrown into qusssi oppo. ton, and was run for Vice President with Judge White for President that year-receiving tho votes of several Southern States, and barely mis. sing those of others. Virginia was carried by the Van Buron party, but would not vote for Col. Richard NJ. Johnston for Vice President, nor yet for Mir Tyler, but. threw her 9 votes away on William Smith, of s. C., whereby the election was sent to the U. $. Ssnate, where Col. Johnson was chosen.
 In December. 1889, MT. Tyler appeared as DSASSotV bu toO " uIS ANhStOu2l SOnVcattOu ueiu at Harrisburg, where he figured as jealous aud uncompromising advocate of Mr. Clay's nomina. ton for the Presidency. He was reported to have shed tears when Gen. Harrison received the nomination. He dried them however on receiving the nomination for the second office, whereby the support of the " White" men of 1886 was concliated, and the votes of Tonnes see, Georgia, North Carolina. Mississippi, &c.,, secured to Gen. Harrison. Virginia, however, was still carried for Van Buren, and did not vote for Mir. Tyler, who was nevertheless elected by an overwhelming Electoral majority.
 Gen. Harrison was inaugurated March 4th, l84l, and died thirty days thereafter leaving the Presidency to Mir. Tyler. How false he proved to those who had elected him, and how contemp- tible he rendered himself, even in the eyes of those who profted by his trcachery, we need not here set forth. He tried to be the Democratic wouldn't touch him with ten foot pole. He got up bogus convention of his offce-holders, which went through the farce of rendering him a nomination, but the regular Democratic Con- vention did not give him single vote On the 4th of March, l845. he went into obscurity, whence he only emerged last February as Del gate to the Convention or one.horse Congress" assembled in Washington, to bully the Free States out of their principles as the indispensa- ble condition of the adherance of the Slave States to the Union. He presided over that anomalous body, and was one of the most bigot- ed and exactng of the Pro-Slavery magnates- His next appearance on any stage was as full blown traitor engaged in forcibly dsrupting and destroying the Union.
 Mir. Tyler was a person of uncommanding presence, but of courtly, winning manners. He was tall and thin in person, deferential and pleas ing in address, empty-mlnded and hollow-hearted. By choosing first Judge Upshur, then John c. Calhoun as his Secretary of State, he secured the Annexation of Texas, and commenced the long train of Slavery aggressons which are be- ginning to bear truit.-1ribune.