Alexandria Gazette

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The Oaks, N. C. July 6, 1842.
Dear Sir:--I reached Baltimore on the morning of the 3d of December, about 8 o'clock A. M. on my way to Harrisburg. I went immediately to Barnum's Hotel to get my breakfast, as I was informed the cars would leave for York at 9 o'clock. When I entered the breakfast room, I found Mr. Kinney, of Elizabeth City, and Mr. Benjamin W. Leigh, of Virginia, at the table alone, both on their way to Harrisburg. In a few minutes after, Mr. Tyler entered the room and I was introduced to him by Mr. Kinney. As soon as breakfast was over, we all moved off for the depot and took the cars together. Mr. Tyler and myself happened to fall in conversation on the way to the cars, and we got seats near each other, and had considerable conversation together, turning mostly upon the subject of our trip to Harrisburg, and the prospects of the Whig party and the nominations to be made by the Convention at Harrisburg. In that conversation, Mr. Tyler declared himself in warm and strong language in favor of Mr. C. I thought at the time, he was as warm for Mr. Clay as I was, and you know that I voted for Mr. Clay in 1832, with only 40 others in the County, and that I have been his constant and unwavering supporter and advocate ever since. Our conversation turned also upon the grounds of our opposition to Van Buren's Administration, the subject of the Currency, Banks, Exchanges, &c. Mr. Tyler declared himself decidedly opposed to the Sub. Treasury and to the State Banks as Fiscal Agents of the Government. He spoke of the derangement of the Currency and Exchanges, and of the great necessity of reform in the one, and of equalizing the other, and seemed to consider this the prominent object the Whigs had in view. I do not recollect that he stated in so many words, that he was in favor of a National Bank, but from the whole tenor of his conversation upon the subject, his anxiety to regulate the currency and to equalize exchanges and his being so warm for Mr. Clay, whose plan for effecting these objects, was the establishment of a National Bank, I inferred that Mr. Tyler himself was favorable to a National Bank. I had no doubt about it from the general tenor of his conversation. I was the more attentive to his conversation, because it was my first acquaintance with him and I was an Elector on the Ticket that supported him for Vice President and Judge White for President. I never had a conversation with any person on any subject, that left a more decided impression upon my mind as to the opinions of another, than this left on me, that Mr. Tyler was in favor of Mr. Clay for President and of the establishment of a National Bank. As to the former I am not mistaken, I know that he said he did prefer Mr. Clay to any other person, and I think that no person could have heard him upon the other subject without coming to the conclusion that he was a Bank man.
Yours truly,
WILLIAM W. CHERRY.