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TYLER 



ADMINISTRATION OF TYLQ] 



Florida Admitted O 

 to the Union, 1845 



Morse 



and his 



Telegraph 



1844 



1842 

 Webster -Ash burton 

 Boundary Treaty 



Bunker Hill Monument 

 Dedicated, 1843 



Copper Discovered 

 in Michigan, 1844 



In 1834 Tyler again showed his willingness to 



independently of his party. Like .lad, 

 he believed tli.-it the Bank of the United St 

 was "the original sin against the Constitution, 

 which, 'in the progress of our history, has called 

 into existence a numerous progeny of usurpa- 

 tions." Strongly as he disapproved of the 

 Bank, Tyler could not countenance President 



oil's methods of fighting it, and when the 

 President ordered the removal of the govern- 

 ment's deposits, Tyler openly broke with the 



.ni.-tration. In February, 1834, he pro- 

 posed to submit a constitutional amendment, 



r directly forbidding or permitting a na- 



1 bank, but nothing came of this plan, be- 

 cause Calhoun held aloof. 



< oursc of events during 1834 and 1835 



1 doubt that thero was a set 

 split in the Democratic party. Not only h nl 

 Calhoun nullifiers broken away, but 



r body of "States' Ki-hts Whigs" was 

 formed out of anti-Jackson Democrats. 

 States' Rights Whigs agreed with the norl 

 Whigs, or National Republicans, only in their 

 opposition to Jackson, and differed from ti 

 on the fundamental issues of the Bank, tariff 

 and internal improvements. These Souti 



Whigs in 1836 nominated Hugh White of Ten- 

 nessee for President and Tyler for Vice-Presi- 

 dent. Van Huren wa- 



Earlier in the year Tyler refused to obey in- 

 structions from the Virginia 1 1:1-' 

 in favor of Benton's famous "expunging reso- 

 lution." Twenty years previously Tyler had 

 gone on record as to the binding force of such 

 instructions, but he now disregarded i! 



I against the Henton resolution and then 



:il from the Sen ::iry 23, 1836. 



In 1838 he sat in the \ and 



in 1839 he was again a candidate for the B 



The contest was a deadlock, and was 

 : because < ned 



to take Tyler out of the race. 

 The Presidential Election of 1840. In the 



ntime the Van Burcn administration had 

 fallen upon evil times in consequence of 



of 1837. This panic was attributed, at 

 least m justice, to Jackson, Van 



:\* old rl . l.nl to reap 



the haiv<>(. In the election of 1840 the oppo- 



*unk their difference* of p< 

 to adopt :n, and nominated 



ml Will. H ry Harrison, a popuh^ 

 To eatch the votes of discontented 



