Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-14
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And TYLER too -


Fedcrast indeed! Why, if ever There s., dam
ocrat dyed in the wool, odd Tip" was one. 1t was
that role, and his perfectly natural performance Of it.
which drove the really polished gentlemanly and
arstocratc Martin Van Buren, out of the White
House. in spite of all his smiles, his smrks, his gr-
maces and his democratic" professions, and even
his ncessan excrtons TO plant his delicate little feet
IN the footprints Of his ustrous, but also uniuck
ily for a dwarf gigantic" predecessor
As to John Tyler, he was mere riGcr. When the
managers of the Whg Harrisburg Convention in
1910 abandoned Henry Clay and democratized that
party by setting up "Old Tip" nobody cared who
would be MIR. Vice" Webster said, at Il private
supper table in Richmond, in this very month of
October just after his great speech in front of the
Capitol in 1910: "Ifyou will take the infntesimal of
a man, and reduce him ninitesimally you will have
some idea of John Tylers calibre!" If | am not
mistaken, the Prince John himself did not hesitate
In 1912 or 49, or sometime hercabout to signify his
loathing for Captain Tyler and his whole crew. He
was replying to some fancied slight which Daniel
Webster then Secretary of State, had put upon the
eldest son of an exPresident. Webster occasionally
rode high horse, as Hayne, and Benton, and other
Senatorial gadiators, had been made to experience
more than once. The man who could make even
those redoubtabe combatants feel rather small
being obliged once to answer Prince Johns snarling
apologized for stopping to insignificant a quarry
needed to a rude speech give him credit for that
But what was it? Why that the man who had stucl,
to John Tyler, when the rest of the Wing Cabinet
John Bell of Tennessee and Badger, of North Caro-
lima, (secessoniss in the late rcbcllion) Tom Ew-
ing, of Ohio, and Frank Granger, of New York
abandoned the apostate, might tolerate anybody
without turning up his noSc This was considered
very fair hat at Webster, 'and Tyler too" in Wash
ngton circles AT the time when neither of them hap
Dened pdp is
funny, therefore, to find Prince John neutrazing the
effect of this and other good stories about himself by
rhetorical glorifcation of Tylersm!
1t was equally absurd to put down old Rough and
Ready as Fcderalst.
Zach. Taylor was not even Wing. lie never had
any politics. The military success of the United
States over Mexico elected him President
But the classification of Prince John reaches the
climax of the tolseHo when he sets down the success
sor Of General Taylor as a Democrat" What! Mil
lard Fillmore Democrat! There are a good many
old opponcnsS. hcreabouts. of Democracy-lthOugh
their fathers were Jefcrsonian, Nadsonian and
Monroe Democrats}-who have been accustomed to
hear Millard Fillmore talked about as bitter Fede-
rast, but never before alluded to as a Democ,Gf. and
these begin to believe that the Prince is fast win
ming the reputation of "a bit of goose instead Of
keeping up his fame a 'f That, you know. is the
f1cilis desceR8us of joker.
But his mention of the namc of Mr.. Lincoln, in a
merely parry connection, at this time, is not
what the gentlemen Of the United States OK
pected from a person who sets himself up as a
gentleman par emiaeHcc.
The American people have not yet so moderated
their great grief for the loss Of their first citizen and
their horror at the manner of his death, that they
listen with patience to this complaccnt chatter
ing about Abraham Lincoln as a "Federast.''-
There are themes too sacred and TOO high TO be
ohout hn hus tiups nd thn and FAM
of our martyred President are of that character.
A LOOKER OK.