SHERWOOD FOREST, November 10, 1860.
So all is over, and Lincoln elected. South Carolina will secede. What other States will do remains to be seen. Virginia will abide developments. The Bellites will seek to divide parties into Unionists and the reverse. We shall see the result. It is said that Rives is offered the premiership. He will only take it upon satisfactory assurances being given, I am sure. For myself, I rest in quiet, and shall do so unless I see that my poor opinions have due weight. In the meantime confidence between man and man is giving way, and soon gold and silver will be hoarded by those who are fortunate enough to have them.
Love to all.Your affectionate father,
J. TYLER.
SOURCE: Lyon Gardiner Tyler, The Letters
and Times of the Tylers, Volume 2, p. 563
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