The New York herald., 1862-01-22
Tho Death OF Ex-President Tyler.

Tho Death or Ex-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 last, at the advanced age of seventy
two years. This announcement has no political
or national significance or Importance, and Mr..
Tylers course In advocating rebellion had long
since alienated from him all personal sympathy
and respect-that due to age alone excepted.
To the usual comparative obscurity which
awaits the ex-Presidents of this republic, and
to the shades Of declining years, Mr. Tyler added
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 assisting
q wretched attempt to breakup the government
of that country over whose destinies he had
once presided, and in whose service he had
enjoyed stleast official honors. He died, there
fore, unmourned and unhonored, and the in
teresting "reminiscences which his career sug-
gests alone make his death noticeable.
Mr.. Tyler has been most happily called an
accidental President" He came of one of the
first Virginia families, and, before the msmora-
BILE "hard cider campaign" had repre-
sented his State in Congress, both in
the House of Representatives and in the
Senate, where he was noted chiefly as
democratic wit and raconteur Of choice, hu-
morous stories. When the revulsion, Of politics.
consequent upon the crisis Of '37 and the defal-
cations in Van Buren's administration, carried
Tippecanoe Harrison into the Presidential
chair in ls40, the wings selected John Tyler as
Vice President, merely because of his presumed
influence in carrying the State of Virginia for
their party, and not because of his political ante
cedents-for he had always been strong demo
crat-nor on account of his personal popularity.
A song prevalent at that time expresses the
general opinion of MIR. Tyler's qualifications
the couplet-
We vote for Tyler therefore,
Without why or wherefore.
That tremendous political campaign resulted
in the election of Harrison and Tyler, as it
would have resulted in the election Of any can
didates supported by Harry Clay, hard cider,
log cabins, coens and songs of unprecedented
popularity. The enthusiasm Of the people was
unbounded, and from the outset Van Buren had
not 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 this great commoton,
otion-motion-motion-
All the country through
II is the ball rolling
For Tppecanoe
And Tyler, too
For Tppecanos and Tyler, tool
And with them well beat little VAN
van vani van
For Van 10 q used up man
Without why or wherefore the wings put
into the Vice Presidential chair an anti-whig,
anti-bank politician, who 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 badgered poor Harrison, whose simple
campaigning experience little fitted him to en-
counter this army of Office hunters, until at the
end of month they had succeeded in effectu-
ally running their own chances by killing the
hero Of Tippecanoe and making Tyler the "ac-
cidentalD President. It will be remembered
that John Minor Bolts, Of Virginia, accompa-
MED Tyler to Washington to assist him in as
suming the Presidential purple. Already ru-
mors of Tyler's democratic proclivities 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 whig faith, and see that he did
not change his political coat upon the morning
of his Inauguration. This bedfellowshp has
become historical, and it is generally supposed
that Tyler kicked Bolts out upon the floor that
night, SO completely did the accidental"
President turn his back upon the party and veto
any attempt at pure whig legislation, and SO
energetically did Bolts exclaim, in speaking Of
Tyler and his vetoes, "We must head him or
die!"
During his term Of Office, Mr.. Tyler was
a sensational President. Everything he did as
| tonishpd his marty and took the country by sur