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)= , ?=a - Five Minufe Chats on Our Presidents L By JAMES MORGAN ~ m o. o (Copyright, 1920, by James Morsan.) MARTIN VAN BUREN P" * ?? r \ ~ " ? s ^ 1837?Martin Van Buren inau- ? xgurated eighth president, aged 54. Revolution in Ontario. j I Revolution in Texas. The Seminole war. ' 1840?The sub-treasury law. Van Buren defeated for i re-election. 1844?Defeated for nomination. 1848?Free soil candidate for president. r 1862?July 24, died at Kinder- ! * hook, N. Y., aged 79. (>= =Q THE most notable event of Van Buren's administration was the occurrence of one of the great panics < from which in the nineteenth century the country regularly collapsed every 15 or 20 years, as in 1S19, 3S37, 1S57, 1878 and in 1893. Those periodic prostrations always followed wild debauches in speculation, but since it is convenient and consoling to blame some one else for our own sins, the president invariably has been made the scapegoat in each period of hard times. No doubt Jackson's removal of the public deposits from the United States bank caused financial disturbance and his distribution of the federal surplus among the state treasuries also was disturbing. The government, the banks and the people generally had all merrily joined in sowing tHe wind, whose harvest was the Whirlwind of 1837. v. The nation had been indulging in v the first of its big western booms. The river steamboat aided to open up new l regions, where mushroom states, in I ambitions emulation of New York and I its Erie canal, ran wild in appropria tions for the building of canals. Van 8Mfc|^ jjs | fi !>* Martin Van Buren. Bui'en was the first president-elect to I ride in a train even part of the way j to Washington, and the expansion of tfie steam railway system was beginning to inflame the national imagination. whan +ho dflv nf reckoning and re morse came; when bread riots broke out; when laborers stood in line Dear New York to get jobs at a wage of $4 a month and board; when banks % suspended payments in coin, and when ' > business houses were tumbling into bankruptcy, the bankers and business men, who had always been violently anti-Democratic, turned upon Van j Buren and pointed their accusing fin- j gers at the White House. The lore- ] most man of business in conservative; New England, Abbott Lawrence, did not hesitate to hint to a public meeting in Boston, the incendiary suggestion that the time might come for forcible resistance to the government,! when the crew, as he said, would have to mutiny and seize the ship of state. , ' Van Buren faced the gale without ueuuiug. XiC ivsc auvic j/vm.vu. I maneuvering and the temptation to j flatter the mad passions of the hour I ?and preserved an attitude of mas-1 terful inactivity! v The president did call congress in' Wk extra session, but only to recommend j the adoption of the sub-treasury sys-1 tem. The banks having failed, he pro- j posed that Uncle Sam, like a timid old j woman, should lock up his money in i the bureau drawer. And the economic; folly of the sub-treasury was persisted j in until the establishment of the led- j eral reserve system. It was squally weather all around,; with the costly Seminole war dragging ^ its slow course through the malarial % gverglatfes of Florida; with embarrass* Ine revolutions on both sides of us, J in the revolted Mexican province of Texas and in Ontario. The defeats of the Democratic ticket in the off years plainly foreshadowed the ill-starred presidents own defeat fn his candidacy for re-election in 1840. No prophet was needed to write the refrain of the popular campaign song of the Whigs: Van! Van! v Is a used up man. Nevertheless Van Buren remained in active politics 10 years. For still an( other 10 years he lived on in retire" meet *t JLindenwold, his country estate in his native village, where he died In the midst of the Civil war. i \ _ .. _ , %r,. ^ ' f ?v - . ==o [ Five Minute Chats . j on Our Presidents' By JAMES MORGAN 0" - Q , (Copyright, VJZ'J, by James Morgan.) FRESIDENT FOR A MONTH O " -0 1773?February 9, birth of William Henry Harrison at Berkeley, Va. 1791?Entered the army. 1801-14?Governor of territory of Indiana. 1811?Battle of Tippecanoe. 1316-19?Member of congress. 1819-21?Member of Ohio senate. ! 1825-28?United States senator 1828-29?Minister to Coiombia. 1836?Candidate for president. 1841?March 4, inaugurated ninth president, aged 68. April 4, died in the White House, aged 63. i>, O ALTHOUGH William Henry Harrison was elected to the presidency as the log-cabin candidate, in the first of our frenzied, parading campaigns, he was born to one of "th6 first families of Virginia," in a manor house on the banks of the aristocratic James. As a son of Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration, with the blood of Pocahontas in his veins, and as a descendant of a Cromwellian colonel who signed the death warrant or a King, no president nas uau a longer, more historic lineage. In ability William Henry Harrison i fell below the standard of his predecessors. He was elected not because j he was a great statesman or a great j soldier, but because he was thoroughly , representative of the new West, which j was flattered to see in the White House ! for the first time a man created in its own image. At Harrison's inauguration the presidency entered an eclipse and j was held for 20 years by secondary J characters, who reigned, but did not j rule. With men of the eminence of Clay and Webster, Calhoun and Ben William Henry Harrison. ton, latterly Cass and Houston, Doug-: las and Davis, Case and Wade, Seward and Sumner in the senate, dis tinction and leadership passed from the White House to the eapitol. It wfts an ignoble period in our politics when both parties were dodging the irrepressible issue of slavery, and the smaller the candidate for president the better chance he had to dodge the question. ! In the teeth of a piercing northwest wind, the old farmer president-elect, bareheaded and disdaining the protection of an overcoat, rode horseback to the eapitol. After addressing a great crowd that shivered in its shawls and furs, he insisted, though half-frozen, i on remounting his horse and leading the inaugural parade. . j No sooner was the first Whig president in the chair than the claims of factions and the clamor for patronage assailed iiim. Clay had declined cabinet honors?and labors?in the confident expectation of playing the easier and more powerful role of the power behind the throne. The imperious manner of the Great Com-: moner wounding %the presidential pride, he was requested to make his calls at the White House as infrequent and inconspicuous ns he conveniently could. Thereupon his total absence became embarrassingly conspicuous. The one clear mandate of the election of 1840 was to turn out the Democrats and give the jobs to the Whigs, Straightway a hungry horde .fell upon Harrison and literally devoured him. In a month to a day he was dead of pneumonia, the first president to die in office throughout the more than ."ft rpnrs of its existence. Tills briefest of administrations is a pathetic little story of a simple, lonely old man, lured from Mo farm to be the sport of polities. Ailing in body and harried in mind, he was without the rare and companionship of his good wife. Anna Synimes Harrison. daughter oC a New Jersey colo-_ nel in the Revolution who became one of the pioneer soldiers of Ohio. Broken by the hard toil of a frontier i household and sorrowing for the loss of eight of her ten children, this wife of one president and grandmother of another, still was making ready to , take Tip *ier duties as mistress of the j White House when the news of her ( husband's death came to her, I j' -+ 3 =0 f Five Minute Chats on Our Presidents By JAMES MORGAN O--. 1 '"Q i (Copyright, 1920, by Jamps llorgan.) ^JOHN TYLER 11 o- ' ?o 1790? March 29, John Tyler born in Charles City, Charles City county, Va. I 1827-36?United States senator. ! 1840?fciectea vice president. 1841?April 6, became tenth pres- ' ident, aged 51. 1845?March 3, signed joint resolution for annexation of Texas. N j 1861?President of the peace convention in Washington. Elected to Confederate congress. ' 1862?Jan. 17, died in Richmond, Va., aged 71. i O oj GREATNESS and the presidency; found John Tyler down on one T-norv nlnvirifr "lcnnoks" with his boyS : IV"VV? l"lV 4"0 "" ? - J in a pathway of his dooryard in Wil- i liamsburg, that stately old vice-regal! village o? colonial Virginia. He had J not even heard that Harrison was ill, j until destiny, without steam, wire or | rail to carry it, sped to him from Wash- i ington by boat and buggy with the J news that the president had been dead j a day and that the empty presidential j chair was awaiting the vice president, j Tvler belongs amonjr the third or \ fourth-rate presidents. Although a j clean-handed, kindly man of good prosonce and polished manners, he was! a mediocre country lawyer and a nar- j row-minded politician, with a gift for; getting offices that he had no gift for j filling. As John Tyler stepped into the White House, its door closed against! the party which had elected him only j five months before. Death had turned j out the Whigs after 30 days of power jiud caused a political revolution. Clay looked upon the accidental president as only a regent for the Harri John Tyler. son administration and for the Whig party. Early in the extra session of' congress, that impression of the senator from Kentucky was sharply corrected by a presidential veto of one of j his own bills?a banking bill. The Whigs were wild with rage; the Democrats filled with glee. The! Democratic senators hastened in aj body to the White House, where theyj were patting Tyler on the back while a Whig mob outside in the yard was i I making a vociferous, but futile i>rotrst. When the next veto- came in (lay himself called the cabinet together and the members, with one exception, agreed to resign. The exception was none other than that of the secretary of state, Daniel j Webster. "Where am I to go?" the god-like Daniel thundered in his bewilderment. told him to go to one place, some 1) another. He held on for two years? until he had concluded the negotiation of the Ashburton treaty, which fixed the disputed boundary between Maine and Canada, and then lie resigned. Upon Webster's retirement,' Tyler J installed in the state department his j mentor and idol, John C. Calhoun, and t thus completed the overturn. The i cabinet was now out and out Demo cratic and of the pro-slavery brand, j Texas had seceded from Mexico, j which had abolished slavery, and its | American settlers, who were facing the j choice of slave labor or free labor, were anxious to be admitted to the j Union. The slave holders of the southern states wanted to expand: their power over the vast Texan em- j pi re as an offset to the rapid expan-; sion of the free states in the great: West. But northern sentiment was opposed. At an opportune moment for the annexationists, the ubiquitous John JHIll, v.llll Ills UlillilfH t'SCilt guiliwirtl, appeared on the Texan scene as a mediator between Mexicans and Texans. His entry gave the slave interests the needed villain for the play, and ike cry went up that we infist annex Texas to keep the BritisI' from grabbing it. j Nevertheless the senate rejecreOi i overwhelmingly the treaty of annexa- , tlon. 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