Recarving Rushmore - a book that states that John Tyler was the greatest American president.
This day in history: U.S. President John Tyler vetoed a bill on this day in 1841 which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members rioted outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
"The nineteenth-century Jeffersonian John Tyler is described as 'arguably the best president in American history,' which is why most Americans have never even heard of him. He was a hardcore Jeffersonian who, as president, vetoed the entire 'American System' of Henry Clay and the Whig Party (protectionist tariffs, a national bank, and corporate welfare), after which the Whigs kicked him out of his own party."~Thomas DiLorenzo
Thomas DiLorenzo explains the situation in 1841: "Tyler vetoed the bank bill by saying: 'The power of Congress to create a national bank to operate per se over the Union has been a question of dispute from the origin of the Government . . . . [M]y own opinion has been uniformly proclaimed to be against the exercise of any such power by this Government.' Kaboom! He also vetoed protectionist tariffs for the same reason that South Carolinians had earlier nullified the 1828 Tariff of Abominations: It was an obvious plot to plunder the agricultural South for the pecuniary benefit of Northern manufacturers.
Henry Clay and the Whigs became unhinged and deranged, organizing a mob to literally break down the gates to the White House (the Secret Service was not created until the Lincoln administration), throw rocks at the White House while shouting “A Bank! A Bank” and 'Down with the veto!' as recounted by Oliver Chitwood’s biography of Tyler. They imposed an early-day version of Guantanamo Bay-style sleep-deprivation torture with incessant shouting, pounding on drums, blowing trumpets and horns, and firing rounds from blunderbusses. They burned President Tyler in effigy, threw the 'corpse' out into the street, and expelled him from the Whig Party...Every member of the cabinet resigned except for Daniel Webster, who was in the middle of a treaty negotiation. A letter-writing campaign was organized that resulted in hundreds of letters being sent to the White House that threatened the assassination of the president. Like today’s Democrats, the Whig Party was paralyzed with obscene hatred.
John Tyler also became the first president to be subjected to Articles of Impeachment, which were filled with rather hilarious political bluster. He was accused of 'arbitrary and despotic abuse of the veto power'; 'open hostility to the Legislative department of the Government,' as though that was a bad thing; and 'vacillation, weakness, and folly,' among other absurdities. The Articles of Impeachment were ultimately rejected."
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