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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Dr. Tyler's Diagnosis. (search)
the inner vestibule of the Cabinet. To be sure we do not exactly understand what an inner vestibule may be; but we are satisfied that it is such a sanctum sanctorum, such a place of places, and such a closet of closets that if Mr. Tyler had therein met Mr. Buchanan, and had suddenly presented the status quo in a mild medium of Monongahela to the President what with the surprise and the spirits, the status quo would have glided down the Executive oesophagus into the Executive stomach) and so in a state of chyme through the Presidential pylorus into the next proper place in the Presidential person — and all with the happiest possible effects. But it is useless to speculate. What is the value of a doctor, when the patient pitches his medicines out of the window? What could Dr. Tyler do when Mr. Buchanan steadily refused to take his physic? What could he do, says the reader, but write another letter to somebody else? Sir, or Madam, that is precisely what he did. February 8, 1861