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1841
1845
JOHN TYLER.
The Ty-lers, of Vir-gin-ia, from the first, would cut free
from Eng-land if she could not be made to do what
was right for the folks in this land. One of them had held
a post which the King gave. The son of that man, when
quite young, was in a place in his own State where he could
hear and know what it was best to do then for the good of
all. He could hear Har-ri-son, Pen-dle-ton, Ran-dolph,
and Col. Wash-ing-ton. The hot words of Pat-rick Hen-ry,
too, were in his ears.
While the war of the Rev-o-lu-tion went on, and when it was at an end, this man, the first John Ty-ler, had good pla-ces in which to work for our land in his own State. His wife, Ma-ry Arm-i-stead, with all her kin, too, was on
