SHERWOOD FOREST, Nov. 1, 1861.
MY DEAR SIR: Your
letter has been duly received, and I have read with the highest pleasure your
article in the Enquirer of the 29th October. It does me full justice, and is
the more agreeable to me as proceeding from one whose past life has been
without reproach of any the slightest kind, and whose name is everywhere and by
every person repeated with honor. I know not what will be the termination of
the approaching election. My own motives are faithfully set forth in my card to
the public. At my time of life, with all my personal surroundings, the place of
ease and comfort would be my own fireside; but when I look to the condition of
the State, and how greatly she is threatened, I can take no counsel from my own
desires, remembering that on another occasion even the "widow's mite"
was esteemed the most valuable. So I feel that I have no right to withhold any
particle of service from the public cause which others may esteem me capable of
rendering. Express to Mrs. Rutherfoord [sic]
my constant and most sincere regard, and believe me to be always, most truly
and faithfully, your friend,
J. TYLER.
SOURCE: Lyon
Gardiner Tyler, The Letters and Times of the Tylers, Volume 2, p.
665
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