The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1881-07-21
Vice Presidential Presidents.

lean Republic appear to drift instructive
ly into opposition even when they are not
named, in order to appease the weaker Of
two hostile factions within the party OF
our vice presidential Presidents, Tyler
was the first. He was chosen in 1910 on
the Wing ticket with General Harrison,
who was siXtyninc years old when he
was inaugurated. Within few weeks
afterWard he died from the effects of a
| cold caught while going to market in a
truly democratic fashion one raw March
morning, He fell victim to an over-esti-
mate OF his constitution and physical
powers, and not unWarned by his friends
whose kindly suggestions were not only
unheeded, but seemed to annoy him. He
lay i'll in the White House only nine days.
He was the first President who died in
office. His death was an astounding
shock to the whole country, and when
the people aWOkG to the fact that another
person whom they had elected Vice Pres
ident, and whom they knew only as ''Ty-
ler too,' had become President, there
went up universal and anxious query,
|Who is he-what sort Of a man is he ,"
But the death of Harrison had been an
ticipatcd several days before it happened.
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Potomac Peninsula, was sent for immedi-
ately in Government steamer. He took
the oath quietly and privately. General
IIarrisOn's cabinet concluded that AIr.
Tyler while performing the functions OF
President, ought to bear the title Of "Nice
President, acting President but Mr.. Ty-
Ter, under the advice of Chief Justice Ia
ney, at once assumed the full presidential
title. He announced that he would re
tain the Harrison cabinet, of which Dan
lcl Webster was Secretary of State. The
HanisonTyier Wings were in doubt and
| dismay, for Tyler had been put on the
ticket with the knowledge that he was
rather an erratic member of the party.
| Within three months Mr.. Tyler vetoed
two fiscal measures Of his party in Con
| greSS looking to destruction Of the Van
| Burcn sub treasury system and to the re-
| establishment uf 4 national bank. BY
the lth Of September what turned out
to be a final rupture between the new
President and the Whig party began with
the resignation Of all the cabinet except
| Mr.. Webster, who did not remain much
longer. The new cabinet was composed
Of nominal Wings. but all the congress
siondl Wings, except Henry \. Wise and
Caleb Cushing, deserted Tyler after the
| Nhig congressman had issued in the au-
tumn otlcil d celebrated manifesto drawn
| up 10y John p. Kennedy Of Maryland,
calling for Il caucus committee, of which
| Kenneth g. Rayncr uOW in Government
| employ i'll Washington, is the only sur
Viyor. From that time forward Tyler re-
ccived his main support from the Demo
Gratis.
General Taylor was the second presi-
! dent who died in office. He died in the
month OF July. only five days before his
! death, on Independence day General
| Taylor had attended the exercises at the
| Washington Monument These lasted
above an hour, during which the PresI-
| dent, with the 0bstinacy OF an old cam
paigner in the tropics, refused to shelter
| himself from an uncommonly hot sun even
with an umbrella. Exhausted and over
heated, on his return to the White House
he ate cherries and drank cold milk i'm
prudently and was soon ill., President
| Taylor's death, like that of Harrison, was
| expected for many hours before it occur
! red. Immediately after that event the
cabinet officers addressed an official let
| ter to Wee President Fillmore, giving him
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