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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 7: (search)
ticable before the close of the session. It would be useless to refer to the voting on the remaining sections of the amendment, which were carried by small majorities. Senate Journal, pp. 332, 333. The Convention, on the same day, through Mr. Tyler, their President, communicated to the Senate and House of Representatives the amendment they had adopted, embracing all the sections, with a request that it might be submitted by Congress, under the Constitution, to the several State LegislaturStates, to bring about ajust and honorable adjustment of our national difficulties. National Intelligencer, March 14, 1861. This vote, we may remark, was far from being complimentary to the conduct of a majority of their own commissioners (Messrs. Tyler, Brockenbrough, and Seddon) in the Peace Convention. In the House of Representatives, the amendment proposed by the Convention was treated with Still less respect than it had been by the Senate. Con. Globe, pp. 1331, 1332, 1333. The Spe
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 10: (search)
uary the answer to it Colonel Hayne's insulting reply it is returned to him Virginia sends Mr. Tyler to the President with a view to avoid hostilities his arrival in Washington and his proposalsis beneficent measure. Among their other proceedings they had passed a resolution that ex-President John Tyler is hereby appointed by the concurrent vote of each branch of the General Assembly, a co to produce a collision of arms between the States and the Government of the United States. Mr. Tyler arrived in Washington on the 23d January, a fortnight before the departure of Col. Hayne, bearbe observed, requested the President, and not Congress, to enter into the proposed agreement. Mr. Tyler, therefore, urged the President to become a party to it. This he refused, stating, according to Mr. Tyler's report to the Governor of Virginia, that he had in no manner changed his views as presented in his annual message; that he could give no pledges; that it was his duty to enforce the law