Norwich bulletin., 1920-04-17
Five Minutes a Day
 With Our Presidents
1s2o-Ry James Morgan

X>tx-A POLITICAL REVOLUTION 1s41-Aug. 16. Tyler vetoed cIays
 bill for setting up new
 bank of the United States.
 Sept. 11-AH the Cabinet,
 except Webster, resigned.
 1842-Ashburton Treaty signed. ....... Death of Mrs. Tyler.
 1243-May, Webster resigned from
 from the Cabinet.
 1844-Feb. 28, explosion on the U.
 s. S. Princeton.
 June 8, treaty annexins
 Texas rejected by the Sem
 ate.
 June 26, marriage of
 President Tyler and Julia
 Gardiner.
 1S45-March B., Tyler signed joint
 resolution for annexation of 1sS1-FS,esident of the Peace
 Convention in Washington Elected to Confederate Con-
 gress.
 1862-Jan. 17, died in Richmond,
 Va, aged 71.
 As John Tyler stepped into the White House, it's door closed against the party which had elected him only l five months before. Death had turned out the whigs after 30 days of power and caused a political revolution. 1 In vain the Harrison cabinet whicf was largely under the influence O. Clay, proposed that Tyler should de scribe himself only as vice presiden and acting president. lie rightly in sisted that he was full presiden without qualification.
 Clay looked upon this accidenta president as only a regent for tn Harrison administration and for tn whig party. Early in the extra ses sion of congress, that impression O the senate from Kentucky was sharp ly corrected by a presidential veto O one of his own bills-a banking bill The Whigs were wild with rage the democrats filled with glee. Tn democratic senators hastened in body to the White House, where the were batting Tyler on the back whil a Whig mob outside in the yard wa making a vociferous. but futile pro test. When the next veto came i Clay himself called the cabinet to gether and the members, with one ex ception agreed to resign.
 The exception was none other tha that of the secretary of state. Danit Webster. Where am I to go?' tn god-like Daniel thundered in his be wilderment Some told him to go one place. some to another. He hel on for two years. until he had con cluded the negotiation of the Ash burton treaty, which fixed the dis puted boundary, between Maine an Canada, and then he resigned.
 Upon Webster's retirement, Tylt installed in the state department h mentor and idol. John c. Calhoun and thus completed the overturn. I'll cabinet was now out and out demo cratic and of the pro- slavery bran
 Although the president only stoe ) true to the principles that he WE well known to entertain at the tin | of his nomination and election, gre; l was the outcry. Nothing like it h. . assailed any other president excel Andrew Johnson. The name ( 8 Tyler became a hissing and bywol e in the mouth of every Whig in u 9 land, and old women blamed hi . even for their. rheumatic twinge l which they called "Tyler's grip" : A southern states rights oligarcl Q was enthroned in power in the first t a series of pro slavery admfnistri ] tions. Secretary Calhoun proclaim the ambitious policy of guaranteeil the security of slavery not only in u | United States. but also "througho : the whole of this continent" < Texas had seeded from Mexio 2 which had abolished slavery, and i | American settlers, who were faeir 2 the choice of slave labor or free labc U were anxious to be admitted to u