The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-09-03
AZ. g." AND ROBERT TYLER


The Montgomery Adrertiser and Mail,
Of the 2Sth ult., comes to us with labored
and able editorial in reply to short para
graph Of ours in which we subjoined the
opinion Of II. G. upon President John
Tyler, TO the effect that the latter had ian
inborn constitutional horror of anything
that wore the semblance of honesty" and
in which we expressed the belief that no
son of John Tyler could justify such a libel
upon his father by approving the author of
it. 1t seems in this, however, that we
were mistaken. Mr.. Robert Tyler, the
gentleman to whom we referred in our
brief paragraph, is the editor-in-chef of the
Adce'tiser' and Nal and he comes to the
rescue of Horace Greeley with chivalry
that is truly Virginan, in the character of
It's magnanimity and forgiveness. He assures
us that his honored and distinguished father
(the aijectives are ours) never noticed or
referred to Mr.. Greeley on any occasion in
his life. AS he evidently intends this as
compliment to the good seuse and superior
judgment of the distinguished dead, the
assurance that "Mr. Greeley had received
no quarter at his Robert Tyer's) hands"
may be taken as a sort of lelt-handed COM
pliment to himself.
Mr.. Tyler is SO gallant and masnanimous
in his defence of the Cincinnati nominee,
that he does not ask him to retract single
malignant utterance of his life, not even
the savage opinion he expressed of Presi-
dent Tyler, but proposes to take him as he
is, with all his multitudinous faults upon
his head, and let political by-gones be
thoroughly by-gone SO far as Ii. G. is con-
cerned. Ihis is truly an amiablc and phil
oshphic mood for one to get into, and as
MIR. Tyler is good representative Vir-
ginian, who has unfortunately left his own
State because he absurdly imagnes that
" the pure old Democratic principles of
his fathers of Jefferson, Madison and
Jackson '-have been overthrown and
utterly demolished in the antagonstic
aad revolutionary struggle that has
been going forward, we are half in
cned to urge his return to the State
that he may be instructed in some of the
pure democratic teachings of the STATE
JOURNAL, and not entirely forget the char
acter of the government under which he used
to live. We can assure Mr.. Robert Tyler
that the Virginia Constitution of 1869,
is a thousand times more democratic in its
character, as we'll as in its letter and spirit,
than that of 1851, or that of 1880, or the
two separate drafts submitted by Mr.. Ma
son and Mr.. Jefferson in 1875. Under this
new constitution, and in accordance with
the democratic doctrine underlying our
whole system of government I'VE mean in
the real and not in the partisan sense of the
term,) the power which the General Assem-
bly, Of the State had almost entirely mo-
nopolized under the old aristocratic regime,
has been largely RENTED to the people,
and local sef-government, thing before
unknown in Virginia, begins to assume
hcalthful and inyigorating tone, and to
impart such life and activity generally
as would make Mr.. Robert Tyler doubly
proud of the grand old State which gave
him birth. Mr.. Tyler can hardly have for
gotten the fact that while the Virginia poll
ticiaas Of his own as well as his fathers
time, were loud in their denunciation of
Capitalization as principle entering into
the Federal government, they were i'm
mense sticklers for the same principle as
applicable to the government of Virginia.
There was no such thing as an independent
town or county government known. All |
power was graciously, and sometimes very
ungraciously, vouchsafed by the General
Assembly to the people, who were treated
as subjects to be goeerned under the old
constitutions, and not as the sovereign peo
pie from whom all legislative power pro-