TYLER, John (1790-1862), President . Letter signed ("J. Tyler"), as President, to [James I.] Roosevelt (1795 - 1875), n.p., 30 May 1842. 2 pages, 8vo . TYLER TERMS HIMSELF "A PRESIDENT WITHOUT A PARTY", AND COMPLAINS THAT "BOTH PARTIES MAKE WAR UPON ME" Writing to an ancestor of two future Presidents (most likely New York's Democratic Congressman James I. Roosevelt, grand-uncle of Theodore Roosevelt) John Tyler reports: "The two letters of Mr. Chute and Mr. Hassing I have referred to Mr. Forward being all that I can now do. Mr. Chute writes as a Freeman and shows himself to be a true party man. Both parties make war upon me. I am 'a President without a party.' So the contingency of a party convention cannot concern me as alluded to by Mr. Chute." The "President without a party" went through many political permutations in his career. Starting off as a Jeffersonian Republican, he evolved into a Jacksonian Democrat, only to turn against the President during the Nullification Crisis. Slavery proved to be the keynote to his politics. He cast the lone Senatorial vote against Jackson's Force Bill, and left the Senate to serve as a Whig Party representative in the Virginia House of Delegates. Harrison added him to the 1840 ticket to gain Southern votes, and when Tyler succeeded "Tippecanoe" the new President made it clear that he would not push through a Whig agenda, leading to mass resignations in his Cabinet (all but Secretary of State Daniel Webster). He declined to run as an independent candidate in 1844, in order to insure that Democratic James Polk would defeat Whig Henry Clay. Tyler naturally gravitated back to the Democrats as the slavery-sectional crisis heated up. He chaired the Peace Commission convened during Lincoln's interregnum, but never relinquished his pro-slavery convictions. He has the dubious honor of being the only former President of the United States to align himself with the rebellion against the Union. He was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives, but died before he could take his seat.
TYLER, John (1790-1862), President . Letter signed ("J. Tyler"), as President, to [James I.] Roosevelt (1795 - 1875), n.p., 30 May 1842. 2 pages, 8vo . TYLER TERMS HIMSELF "A PRESIDENT WITHOUT A PARTY", AND COMPLAINS THAT "BOTH PARTIES MAKE WAR UPON ME" Writing to an ancestor of two future Presidents (most likely New York's Democratic Congressman James I. Roosevelt, grand-uncle of Theodore Roosevelt) John Tyler reports: "The two letters of Mr. Chute and Mr. Hassing I have referred to Mr. Forward being all that I can now do. Mr. Chute writes as a Freeman and shows himself to be a true party man. Both parties make war upon me. I am 'a President without a party.' So the contingency of a party convention cannot concern me as alluded to by Mr. Chute." The "President without a party" went through many political permutations in his career. Starting off as a Jeffersonian Republican, he evolved into a Jacksonian Democrat, only to turn against the President during the Nullification Crisis. Slavery proved to be the keynote to his politics. He cast the lone Senatorial vote against Jackson's Force Bill, and left the Senate to serve as a Whig Party representative in the Virginia House of Delegates. Harrison added him to the 1840 ticket to gain Southern votes, and when Tyler succeeded "Tippecanoe" the new President made it clear that he would not push through a Whig agenda, leading to mass resignations in his Cabinet (all but Secretary of State Daniel Webster). He declined to run as an independent candidate in 1844, in order to insure that Democratic James Polk would defeat Whig Henry Clay. Tyler naturally gravitated back to the Democrats as the slavery-sectional crisis heated up. He chaired the Peace Commission convened during Lincoln's interregnum, but never relinquished his pro-slavery convictions. He has the dubious honor of being the only former President of the United States to align himself with the rebellion against the Union. He was elected to the Confederate House of Representatives, but died before he could take his seat.
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