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John Tyler Laments a Speech Delivered by Calhoun: "It is too ultra and his ultimata impracticable."
John Tyler Autograph Letter Signed "J. Tyler." Three integral pages, 8" x 10", Sherwood Forest plantation [Virginia], March 12, 1850, to his son, Robert, regarding the recent resolutions adopted at the Democratic Union meeting that was held a few weeks before. Tyler begins by telling his son that he "...had been drawn to the proceedings of the Democrats of Philadelphia before your letter reached me. With out at the time knowing who was the author of the resolutions I had praised them in conversation with others...They are precisely what they should have been. The Democratic Party can only hope for success by discarding from among them free soilers, abolitionists and all such cattle." He recommends that they "Let the Whigs if they please court them and take them to their embraces but let true lovers of the Union repudiate them as unworthy of their association." Such subversives "...deserve the deepest curses of the patriot for having put in jeopardy the noblest and fairest fabric of govt the world ever saw."John C. Calhoun, Tyler's former secretary of state and the son of a prominent slaveholder, was an outspoken ally of slavery, but Tyler laments a recent speech he gave: "Calhoun's speech does him no credit. It is too ultra and his ultimata impracticable. How is agitation to be quieted or an amendment to the Constitution to be obtained and how above all, can it be expected, that the North will concede a power which has grown up under the Constitution and by our own concessions? How idle to complain of the ordinance of '87 as one of the courses of disturbance to the equilibrium of which he complains. That ordinance is our own and was [illegible] the constitution, and it is idle for us to complain of it. In short I regard his speech as calculated to do injury to the Southern Cause, and in that view I regret its delivery..." Calhoun died two weeks after this letter was written.
Separation along the main vertical fold and at the edges of the horizontal folds. Smoothed folds. Some light ink bleed-through.
W.C. Putnam Collection for the benefit of the Acquisition and Conservation Fund of the Putnam Museum.
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