Two  days  after  the  veto,  every  member  of  the  Cabinet  except
Webster  resigned  office.    Seventy  Whig  Congressmen  met  in  a

caucus,  and  prepared  an  ad-
dress to  their  fellow  Whigs
which  read  Tyler  out  of  the
party.  They  denounced  the
President  as  a  man  who
had  betrayed  his  party,
even  as  Benedict  Arnold  be-
trayed his  country.  Tyler's
vetoes,  they  said,  had
wrested  from  the  Whigs  the
fruits  of  a  victory  crowning
twelve  years  of  effort  to  se-
cure control  of  the  govern-
ment. For  the  remaining
three  and  a  half  years  of  his
term,  Tyler  stood  alone,  a
President  without  a  party.
Over  Congress  he  could  ex-
ercise no    control,   for   the


John  Tyler

From  an  old  print  after  the  portrait  by
Thomas  W.  Sully,  Jr.
Whig  majority  opposed  him  in  a  solid  phalanx,  Henry  Clay  at
their  head.  The  chasm  between  Tyler  and  the  Whigs  could
scarcely  be  widened,  even  when  the  President  sent  in  another
veto,  this  time  against  a  Whig  tariff  law.
