BUCHANAN, JAMES, President . Autograph letter signed ("James Buchanan") as Senator, to General Isaac Winters, Washington, D.C., 9 January 1842. 1 1/4 pages, 4to, 250 x 200mm. (10 x 8 in.), lightly browned, three tiny pinholes . BUCHANAN'S VIEW OF THE MASS RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT TYLER'S CABINET Senator Buchanan candidly discusses his lack of influence with the Whig administration: "...It is true that...[President John] Tyler has differed from the Whig party in relation to a Bank of the United States; but every member of his Cabinet was a [William Henry] Harrison Whig & some of them very bitter. As long as Mr. [Daniel] Webster shall continue the premier & [John C.] Spencer be Secretary of War, there will not be the most remote chance of removing a Whig to restore a Democratic postmaster. I have never interfered, in a single instance, with any of the appointments of the present administration. I have no claims upon them & I do not believe that my recommendation would be of service to any person...If you are removed [from your present post] at all then, it will be because you are a Democrat. In former days Mr. W[ebster] & myself served together in Congress & were on terms of intimacy. Not so, now. We have never met since the commencement of the Session..." The Whigs, led by Senator Henry Clay, attempted to restore the National Bank which Andrew Jackson had suppressed, but President Tyler opposed his own party's wishes and the recommendations of his Cabinet, vetoing two bills to create the bank. In protest over his departure from Whig principles, the whole Cabinet except Secretary of State Webster resigned in September 1841, leaving Tyler "a President without a party."
BUCHANAN, JAMES, President . Autograph letter signed ("James Buchanan") as Senator, to General Isaac Winters, Washington, D.C., 9 January 1842. 1 1/4 pages, 4to, 250 x 200mm. (10 x 8 in.), lightly browned, three tiny pinholes . BUCHANAN'S VIEW OF THE MASS RESIGNATION OF PRESIDENT TYLER'S CABINET Senator Buchanan candidly discusses his lack of influence with the Whig administration: "...It is true that...[President John] Tyler has differed from the Whig party in relation to a Bank of the United States; but every member of his Cabinet was a [William Henry] Harrison Whig & some of them very bitter. As long as Mr. [Daniel] Webster shall continue the premier & [John C.] Spencer be Secretary of War, there will not be the most remote chance of removing a Whig to restore a Democratic postmaster. I have never interfered, in a single instance, with any of the appointments of the present administration. I have no claims upon them & I do not believe that my recommendation would be of service to any person...If you are removed [from your present post] at all then, it will be because you are a Democrat. In former days Mr. W[ebster] & myself served together in Congress & were on terms of intimacy. Not so, now. We have never met since the commencement of the Session..." The Whigs, led by Senator Henry Clay, attempted to restore the National Bank which Andrew Jackson had suppressed, but President Tyler opposed his own party's wishes and the recommendations of his Cabinet, vetoing two bills to create the bank. In protest over his departure from Whig principles, the whole Cabinet except Secretary of State Webster resigned in September 1841, leaving Tyler "a President without a party."
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