Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-10

abank Wings /" while regular Democratic
journals were filed with laudations of the
President and s~ugar-coated appeals to his
Glove of country above party" Said the
Richmond Enquirer significantly, HMr.
Tyler's principles, duties policy interests,
are all with US 1.-THE Democratsl if he can
only see them. But will he see them ?
We hope and trust he will not throw him
self into the arms of the Federal. Wings"
In the light of these revelations, the clear
est-sighted Wings knowing Mr.. Tyler'I
moral weakness, predicted his slaughter of
q MEASURE to which he had virtually pledg-
ed hissupport. They knew he was piled
with the fattery of proaigate friends and
the promises Of willy foes, and they were
prepared for his inadelity. 1t is hard for
human nature to bear up against such q
tide Of counter influences man of great
egotism and jealousy can never do it. Mr..
Mr.. Tyler yielded, and on tho 10th pub
Ished his veto.
The Wings were mortified and indig-
nant, but under the advice of the Cabinet
again tried their intraetable President.
A committee waited upon him and sscer-
tanned what he would sign, 8 bill was
drawn after his suggestions labelling the
proposed bank a oFiseal Gorporation'( it
was submitted to him for approval, was
.interlined in his own hand, then intro
duced in both Houses and passed without
altering q word. About the same time
the famous letter of John u. Bolts came
to light, saying HRead Captain Tyler or
die" This sentiment from an influential
Representative, added to the known dis
trust of his colleagues, the arrsignment
by Cushing and other Tyler men of
Clay as the instigator Of e caucus dicta-
torship,f and the csaseless eulogies and
appeals of the Demecracy-seem to have
neryed the President to the final act of
enforcement. He retained the bill six
days, and then vetoed It. This second
veto instantly arrested all effort of COM
promise or thought of harmony between
the President and his party. Two days
after its appearance all tho Cabinet-ex-
cept Webster-resigned, declaring they
could no longer hold confidential relations
to the President with consistency or per-
sonal honor. The night Of their resigna-
ton, the Wing members of Congress met
in caucus upon the unfortunate state of
affairs. Among the members were Clay
Berrien, Choate and Tallmadge, of the
Senate, Adams, Fillmore, Thomas F. Mar
shall, R. G. Winthrop, John Sergeant and
Horace Everett, of the House. (Among
the younger Representatives were the
present Senators Fessenden, Howard,
Davis and Lane of Indiana). After
many able speeches, particularly by Fill
moro and Marshall, they unanimously
adopted and published to the country, a
manifesto, drawn by John P. Kennedy,
Of Maryland, declaring that from that
day forth all political alliance between
them and John Tyler was at an end, and
that "those who brought the President
into power could no longer, in any man-
ner or degree, be justly held responsible
blamed for the administration of the
executive branch of the government
Thus it was the first separation of a
party from its official head was brought
about. The Cabinet was speedily reor-
gsnized, three places being aIled by men
who, like Mr.. Tyler, had entered public
life as Democrats and gone over to their
antagonists, one by a State Rights Wing,
and one bya Union Democrat from South
Carolina,-the whole Cabinet comparing
more favorably with its predecessor in
point of ability than in consistency of re-
cord. The President then found himself
at the head of new party, whose l~ieuten-
ants were Gushing, Wise and Gilmer, and
rank and file, it was vainly hoped,
would comprise large portions of both
the old parties. 1t was designed that as
the Wings receded from the President,
the new party should advance toward and
absorb the Democracy, SO that in any
event the Administration would be backed
by a powerful party influence. The prin-
of the Tyler party we're mainly in
dictated by v%irulent assaults upon Clay's
" caucus dictatorship and fulsome eulo-
gies of the President. Caleb Cushing
chung to his neighbor, the Secretary of
State, and set up Webster as an example
of craftsmanship TO eclipse Clay Henry
A. Wise was engaged with the " Kitchen
Cabinet in adjusting heads to the Exec
utive guillotine; while the lesser adherents
Of Tylerism were soon found only in the
pensioned lists of Government officials.
Meanwhile, the two great parties moved
on, each pursuing its own course
Of consistency and individual interest.
The Wings denounced the Administra-
lion, and went before the people on the
offs Wing Congress against a
President. The Democracy,
wedding all q entsngIing alliances, ar
lently encouraged the Presidents course
md vigorously helped him TO break down
his old party. Several years after, the
Congressional leader Of the Democrats
Mr.. Benton, explained their policy, as
follows GThe Democracy rejoiced, and
oatted Mr.. Tyler on the shoulder, even
hose who despised the new party, for
,hey deemed il fair to avail themselves of
/ treachery of which they were not the
and felt it 10 be a retributive
Justice to deprive tho Wings of the fruits
a victory which they had won by log
,abin, coon-skin and hard-cider tactics,
md especially to effect the deprivation in
person of one whom they had taken
nom tho Democratic camp, and set up
against his old friends. To break their
heads with such g stick had ~retribution in
t. as well as qualification and Mr.. Tyler
was greatly extOlled."
In 1892 the President again resorted 70
he veto, to defeat the tariff legislation.
BE Afterwards protested against aresolu-
lion of eensure passed by the House, and
was efFectually snubbed for his interior
snce. In 1913 his Premier abandoned
him, and soon after his Cabinet broke