"I never regarded Tyler as a man of very high capacity, and his public documents since he has been President have not increased my estimate of him. The last veto--which I have just read over--is better in matter and manner than the former, which was very objectionable in principle, but neither of them is creditable. "I will confess that at first I was not without apprehensions that Tyler's course might be such as to conciliate a portion of our people, and weaken the efficiency of our action, while it would not be such as we could fully approve or safely support; and that he might construct a half-and-half administration in which real and thorough democratic principles might suffer more than by open hostility. But my fears are diminished. Our people seem to be taking the right ground; and the enthusiasm at first excited will, I believe, settle at about the right point. A gentleman to whose opinion I very much defer thinks that Tyler is not a man to accumulate any political strength around him; and can in no event be dangerous. "I do not know whether the Whigs will attempt to put in execution any of the desperate means which have been shadowed forth--such as a formal demand by the members of Congress for Tyler's resignation--a rejection of his nominations of official advisers in case the present cabinet shall retire--a systematic clamor to intimidate him to a surrender of his constitutional authorities. If they do, we must stand by him and his official rights to the uttermost. "I intend to return to the city in about three weeks. Meanwhile I shall be particularly glad to hear from you. "I thank you for the paper you were so kind as to send me. "Sincerely y'rs, "S. J. TILDEN." SILAS WRIGHT, JR., TO ELAM TILDEN "WASHINGTON, _December 6, 1841_. "MY DEAR SIR,--Your favor of the 15th ult., directed to me at my home, came round to me here on this day. I left home on the day of the date of your letter, and when I reached New York found you had left there but a day or two before. I had a very pleasing visit from your son at my room at the City Hotel, but should have been greatly pleased if your visit to the city had been prolonged, as my stay was unusually long and I could have seen more of you than I have been enabled to see for many years.