The State guard., 1848-10-03
Gen. Taylor,s Maryland letter.

throughout the country has been made
 public at last, by the Hon. Reverdy John.
 son, ct last who has been authorized tc
 publish it by Gen. Taylor himself It i; :. published in the Baltimore Patriot, and we think the man who would now say thai Gen. Taylor never surrendered, must be very much in want of sense, for it proves the Peyton ard,-and no longer can the whigs cry out Gen. Taylor is no-party candidate. We hope those of our rea- ders who have supported Gen. Taylor so far, as no-party candidate, may read it atte ntively:
 BATON RoUGE, LA, June 18th, lS4S.
 Gentlemen: l have the honor to ac- knowledge the receipt of your polite com munication of the l2th instant, calling my attention to certain statements, rela- tive to my position before the country as a candidate for the Presidency, which are rep resented to have been made, in the whig National Convention, recently held in Philadelphia, pending the action of that body, by Judge Saunders, of Louisi- ana, in the name of the delegation from that State and requesting to be informed whether such statements were made by my authority. have to inform you, in reply, that, on their way to that Conven- ton, Judges Winchester and Saunders, of the Louisiana Delegation,-who have been, for many years, my personal friends and neighbors,--wrote to me, requesting my views, before the meeting of the Con- vention, as to the course 1 desired my friends to pursue in that body. In two communications addressed to them in re- ply, l informed them, in substance, that at my distance from the scene, it would be quite impossible for me to give any spe. cific instructions upon the subject that many questions or contingencies might arise, during the action of the Conven- ton, the character of which 1 could not foretell; and that they must, therefore, assume the responsibility of acting for me ;-that 1 felt my honor and interest safe in their hands, and that whatever they should see fit to do, would most cordially approve.
 I substantially informed them, further that, unless they should discover an evi- dent disposition to treat me unfairly which had no reason for supposing would be the case,4 thought that my friends should go into the Convention, as they had been selected by their fellow citizens for this purpose; bnt that, having once entered it, they were of course, bound, if 1 were not nominated, to sus- tain and support the nominee, whoever he might be and that hoped they would do so heart and soul. That was a candi- date for the Presi iaency, only so far as my friends had chosen to make me one but that having been placed in my pres- ent attitude towards that subject, without any agency or act of my own, directly or indirectly, I did not feel myself at liberty, by any sush act, to withdraw myself; that my friends, in whose hands I had ever been, could do so whenever they should see fit, and finally that if they could sue. ceed in eleciing to that office any one bet. ter qualified for its duties than was, and who was at the same tip honest, truth full and patriotic, it was thr duty to go for him; and that, so far from being disap. pointed or mortified, I shtuld hale the re- suit with joy.
 Such, I think, has been the language which have uniformly leld on this sub- ject since my name was irst mentioned in connection withit. I regret that have not copy of my communications of Judges Saunders and Winchester, but the above believe to be heir substance.--j Under the general authority then thus given these gentlemen, lshall deem what. ever statements they my have made to be right and proper; ind, confident in their integrity and in the sincerity of their friendship for me, I shall sustain them without qualification. l, therefore, now take upon my ownshoulders the re. sponsibility of the acts If the Louisiana delegation, in that Contention, and am prepared to stand by theconsequences, in their length and breadth,
 regret exceedingly hat my friends in Baltimore, whom you Dpresent, should have thus misunderstood he course in the Convention, and shouk have imagined that l had abandoned Imposition which l have uniformly held my published let- ters on this subject.
 l feel bound, howevr, to respect the opinions of those who bnestly differ with me and, therefore, while I feel con- scious of no change offeeling or incon. sistency on my part, lcannot expect or desire that any of my friends, whom you represent, should do vilence to their own sense of right and wrng, by supporting my election while thy believe I have changed my politicalyiews. I ask no , man, be he whig, derocrat or native, for his vote. Itake ever Amarican citizens { interest in the welfse of his country, to be as pure and as dep as my own ; and l have, therefore, n right, and certainly no desire, to infueEe his action in the exercise of the imPrtant duty of voting 1 for the officers of tb government. |,
 Though 1 haveno objection to your circulating this communication among