Robert Tyler has
arrived, after wonderful risks and difficulties. When I left Mr. Tyler in the
North, the people were talking about electing him their representative in
Congress. They tempted him every way, by threats and by promises, to make them a
speech under the folds of the “star spangled banner” erected near his house.
But in vain. No doubt they would have elected him to Congress, and perhaps have
made him a general, if he had fallen down and worshiped their Republican idol,
and fought against his father.
SOURCE: John
Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States
Capital, Volume 1, p. 33-4
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