Excerpt from John Tyler: His History, Character, and Position; With a Portrait

The primary object of this publication is to repel the calumny which has been heaped upon John Tyler, and to disabuse the public mind in reference to his character, history, and position - his aims, and the purposes of his administration. Up to the period when Mr. Clay arrayed the majority of the twenty-seventh Congress against President Tyler, the public career of no eminent man in the nation had commanded respect more universal, or admiration more uniform and sincere. Consistent in every act of his life, devoted to those sound republican doctrines which have ever been cherished by the democracy of Virginia, unambitious except to promote the good of his country, he has illustrated all the virtues which can dignify and adorn the character of an American statesman. When called by an act of Providence to the executive chair, he carried with him those principles which had been the guide of his life, and an unalterable purpose to administer the government in strict conformity with their spirit and tendency.

But how were his patriotic intentions met by the party which had placed him in power?

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