Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . e a year had elapsed he had lost the confidence ofthe Whig party, principally by his veto of the bank bill, which was strictlya Whig measure. When the bill had been amended so as, it was thought,to meet his approval, and had been again vetoed, his entire cabinet (theone chosen by Harrison) resigned, with the exception of Daniel Webster,Secretary of State, who was then engaged in important negotiations withEngland, and who resigned as soon as th
Presidents, soldiers, a prefix giving a compendium of the history of the United States and history of the Declaration of independence . e a year had elapsed he had lost the confidence ofthe Whig party, principally by his veto of the bank bill, which was strictlya Whig measure. When the bill had been amended so as, it was thought,to meet his approval, and had been again vetoed, his entire cabinet (theone chosen by Harrison) resigned, with the exception of Daniel Webster,Secretary of State, who was then engaged in important negotiations withEngland, and who resigned as soon as those negotiations were the three remaining years of his administration, Tyler was threetimes compelled to form a new cabinet. In May, 1844, a Whig convention assembled at Baltimore, Maryland,nominated Tyler for the presidency, and the nomination was the convention was not a voice of the people, being composed princi-pally of office holders under Tyler, and the president, finding that hisdefeat at the polls wa3 certain, withdrew his acceptance of the nomination,and at the end of his four years retired to private 302 PRESIDENTS, SOLDIERS, STATESMEN. -In 1861, Tyler again appeared in public life. In February of that yeara convention of peace delegates from the ** Border States between theNorth and South was called at Washington to endeavor to arrange termsof compromise between the seceded States and the Federal this convention ex-President Tyler was called to preside, but nothingwas accomplished by its deliberations. Thirty-six hours after the adjournment of the peace convention, , speaking in Richmond, Virginia, denounced the convention and it?measures and declared the South had nothing to hope but in upon his convictions, Mr. Tyler renounced his allegiance to thegovernment, and entered upon active labors in behalf of the SouthernConfederacy. He was one of the committee who, in April, 1861, trans-ferred
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