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TYLER, JOHN

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TYLER, JOHN
1790 - 1862) Tenth President of the United States following the death of Harrison, annexed Texas, and remained loyal to Virginia following its secession. Fine content A.L.S. ""J. Tyler"", 2pp. 4to., Sherwood Forest, June 9, 1856 to a Mr. Wheaton who had asked Tyler to address an organization. The ex-President graciously declines to give his lecture ""The dead of my Cabinet"", mentioning that he had lectured on but a few occasions. He then adds his philosophy on the extremely tense situation between North and South, in part: ""àI feelàthe necessity of a resort to every proper expedient to kindle anew upon the alters of our country the fires which warm into existence sentiments of fraternal feeling among the people of the States - but if all the glories which cluster around the past, if the happiness and overflowing prosperity of the present, and the bright anticipations of the future, are not to induce us to live in peace and good brotherhood together, then I much fear that all the other expediencies will failà"" Very good. Of course, the ""other expediencies"" did indeed fail, leading to the Civil War in which Tyler supported the South.