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...Confederate Leaders and Other Citizens Request the House of Delegates to Repeal the Resolution of Respect to Abraham Lincoln, the Barbarian...
...factor: among the contributors to the pamphlet was Lyon Gardiner Tyler. Onetime (1888-1919) President, now President Emeritus, of William and Mary College, Dr. Tyler is a son of John Tyler. John Tyler was tenth President of the U. S. Since the death of Robert Todd Lincoln (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926), Dr. Tyler is the oldest living son of a U. S. President. That he should join in an attack on a President beside whom his father is historically a dwarf, was not without interest...
Reason for Son Tyler's anger at the memory of President Lincoln is not far to seek. President John Tyler entered the White House in 1841 upon the death of President William Henry Harrison, hero of Tippecanoe. His hand-me-down administration, unlike that of Calvin Coolidge, contemporary prototype, was very unhappy. He had been placed upon the Whig ticket to catch Democratic votes in the South. His own Democratic tendencies, consistently displayed, made him hated by the party which he nominally headed. He retired from politics, embittered, when his term ended, and did not appear in public life...
...resolution of respect" to which Son Tyler objected was passed in February when the Virginia House of Delegates adjourned in honor of Lincoln's Birthday. Dr. Tyler's contribution to the pamphlet of protest was a letter written by him to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. It said...
...resolution of the House appears based upon the idea that Lincoln would, if he had lived, have prevented the horrors of reconstruction." Dr. Tyler advanced two reasons for doubting this: 1) the manner in which Lincoln waged war, involving the wholesale destruction of lives and property; 2) "the instability of his character, which made him incapable of standing up against any real opposition...