The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-20

The appended letters from Letters ana Times of the Tylers" an interesting BOOK by Colonel Lyon G. Tyler, president Of William and Mary College Virginia, will De read with interest in Alabama:
 Gro Robert Tyler)
 Wheatland, Near Lancaster,
 3rd August, 1865. !. My Dear Sir-I have learned through our old friends, Baker and owen Jones'. mat you now need the assistance or your friends. and I hasten to send you check for H,000 on the Chemical Bank of New York. Please to acknowledge It's re- ceipt
 Although I could not approve your course in favor of the secessionists. yet l have never doubted the sincerity of your belief and the purity of your mo- lives. Thank God. the war is over. and the Union has not been broken. May His innnite mercy preserve it for ages to come! My health is good for man in his seventy-fifth year.
 With my kindest regards to Mrs. Tyler. I remain always. very respectfully your friend, James Buchanan. Robert Tyler to ex-President 3uchanan1
 Richmond. Va, August A. 1S6o. His Excellency. James Buchanan:
 N"@J 1DSoA oii-1I Was "lth eAN 6A ASAtC~a pleasure that I recognized your we'll known handwriting in the superscri2tion of your letter, which I found awaiting mo on my return from the country the day before yesterday. Your handwriting Is as clear, pure and distinct to the eye as 1t was nearly twenty years ago, when first became your political friend. l hope It may continue so for many years to come.SI have not changed in my sentiments towards you in the least, and maintain the same personal attachment and the same respect for your political wisdom and patriotism that I was wont to express when you were In active put- lie life. Had your counselJ prevailed the country would have escaped the untold horrors of the last four years of blood shed, crime and war. It would have dcne more; 1t would have escaped the imminent perils that now threaten 1t cn ali sides, both within and without. .3 there, in truth, any hope left that the old constitutional equilibrium can ever be restored? Shall we have any Govern ment hereafter except the mere will of an organized mob, in the shape of a predominant party?
 Yes. I frankly confess that I did fer vently believe in the doctrine of State sovereignty as the foundation principle of our system of Government. I did be- lieve in the right and expediency of d peaceable separation between inharmoni- ous States, when the issue was made between that principle and the sword. You well know that the power of coer cion of States by the Federal Govern ment Is not to be found in the Constitu- tion. but was a power which the con vention expressly refused to delegate. But I was not originally a disunionist, as I had no intention of leaving Penn sylvania at the commencement of the war. I was forcibly expelled, and lost all in a day-oflce. home. friends and which I had toled for years. But the conflict is ended. and I bow in submission to the inscrutable will of God! My political race is run, and my destiny is fixed. I only want to devote the rest of my life to work. and to dedicate my remaining energies exclusively to those dependent on my exertions. The war has left me literally nothing except an unstained honor that has triumphed over many temptations,