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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