Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-09-23
GEN. TAYLOR'S LETTER.

BAToS RouGE, QLA.) JUNE 20, ls4s
GENTLEMEN have the honor acknowledge the receipt
Of your polite communication of the 18th instant calling my
attention certain statements relative my position before
the country candidate for the Presidency, which rep
resented have been made in the Wing National Conven
ton recently held in Philadelphia, pending the action Of tha.
body by Judge SAUNDERS Of Louisiana in the Of the
delegation from that State and requesting to I've informed
whether such made by my authority have
inform you, in reply, that their way that Conven
ton Judges WINCHESTER and SAUNDERS of the Louisiana
deegaton-who have been for many years my personal
friends and neshbors-wroe requesting my views be-
fore the meeting of the Convention the desired
my friends to pursue in that body In communications
addressed to them in reply, informed hem in substance
that my distance from the would be quite mposs-
bic for TO give any specific instructions upon the subject
that many questions contingencies might arise during the
action of the Convention the character of which could
foree and that they must therefore. the response
bly Of acting for that felt my honor and interest safe
in their hands, and that whatever they should fit do
would most cordially approve.
substantially informed them, further, that unless they
should discover evident disposition treat unfairly
which had for supposng would be the case-I
thought that my friends should go into the Convention,
they bad been selected by their eowczens for this pur
pose but that, having entered it they Of
pound, III nominated, sustain support
nominee, whoever he might be- and that hoped they would
do 50, heart and SOUL That candidate for the Pre-
sidency only far my friends had chosen make
but that having been placed in my present attitude to-
wards that subject without any agency act of my own
directly indirectly, did feel myself liberty, by any
such act, withdraw myself that my friends in whose
hands had been could do whenever they should
h and finally that If they could succeed in ecctng that
office any better qualified for its duties than was and
who the time honest, truthful, and patriotic it
their duty 60 for him and that far from being dis
appointed mortified, should hail the result with joy
Such, think, has been the language which have uni
formy held this subject since my first mention
ed in connexon with it, regret that have not copy Of
my communications Judges Saunders and Winchester
but the above believe be their substance Under the ge
neral authority, then, thus given these gentlemen shall
deem whatever they may have made be right
and proper and confident in their integrity, and in the sim
cety Of their friendship for me- shall sustain them without
qualification. therefore, take upon my shoulders
the responsibility the Of the Louisiana delegation in that
Convention, and prepared stand by the consequences
in their length and breadth.
regret exceedingly that my friends in Baltimore whom
you represent should have thus misunderstood the course
pursued by the Louisiana Delegation in the Convention and
should have imagined that had abandoned the position
subject.
feel bound, however, to respect the opinions Of those
who honestly differ with and therefore, while feel con-
scious Of change Of feeling Inconsistency on my part
cannot expect desire that any Of my friends whom you
present. should do violence to their sense Of right and
wrong by supporting my election, while they believe have
changed my political views | ask man, be he Wing,
Democrat Native, for his vote. take every American
citizens interest in the welfare Of his country to bo as pure
and deep my and have therefore no right and
cerany DESIRE influence his action in the exercise of
tho important duty Of voting for the officers Of his Govern
ment.
Though have no objection your circulating this
municaon among such Of your friends may be interested
IN H. yet request that may not be published My
sion to the appearance Of my in the public prints in
csaneon with such subjects. my apology for the request
With great respect gentlemen your obeden servant
Y. TAYLOR.
Messrs. Cas-. II. PrTrs, JoHs w. wALKyr. Tn. s.
ALEXANDER, and others, Baltimore, Md.