Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1848-07-14
The LOUISIANA DELEGATION AND


6. B Duncan, member OF this delegation
has written a letter indicating their proceed
j 8 in the Wing Naliins Convention against
certain presentations. The letter closes
with the following interesting and manly
5 atement.
AT a meeting of the Louisi1ni delegation
before referred to, an effort was made By rea-
5 n and argument on the part of the ma jnritY
TO secure uuanimity; this however, Idiled.
| Dr.. BTasear aud myself were asked whether
! we bad any doubt about General Taylor's
politics. aud his being true genuine Whlgt
| Dr. Brasear, answering for both of US, replied
that there could not be particle ot dpnbt on
that subject, and al all events he had none -
| that no man in louisiana who knew any
tning on the subject could doubt. We were
] thdn asked whether we had any doubt about
he power OF the friends OF Gen. Taylor to
withdraw his name from the canvass in case
h. dbl not receive the nomination, and his
determination to support the nomine in case
ui hts own withdrawal? On this point, ! I'M
dsrsiood DR.. B. 10 have no difficulty; but the
Case with me was far different. | told them
that III this lay my only difficulty, and al
! though | knew him to be true hearted, gen.
=
! questions; rast and present of Governmental
1! policy, yet that upon this isolated point
had difficulties of so grave a character as 10
have induced me publicly to declare in New
Orleans that would not 90 to the Phlade-
phla Convention, aud that | had been indu ced
to abandon this resolution only by the urgent
solicitation, oral and written, OF many Wings,
Tor whose opinions | had the most profound
respect, and TO oblige whom was ready TO
make any sacrifice. The delegates then in
formed me that the question had been asked
IN special reference TO the position which
they understood occupied They asked Inc
whether was willing to be satisfied that
was wrongf My answer was that was not
only ichlhg, but my solicitudc was bound
less. | was then asked whether | was not a.
ware that Gen. Taylor hs d said that he never
offered himself as a candida,e-that his posi-
ton as such was the work of bis friends, that
as he had not offered himself, so he would
not withdraw himself but that his friends
might! replied that was aware OF all
that, but that wished TO know were the
organized body of hist riends could be
found, that ght address them and thus in
form myself upon the contingency upon
which they withdraw him. To this | was
informed that bis friends in this Convention
were those recognized. | asked for the evil
dence. They asked wheat evidence | wished?
To this replied that there are genlmen here,
members OF this delegation, whom know
from their intimate personal intercours. with
General Iaylor-the fact that they are his
neighbors aud friends, personal and political
aud from my knowledge, too, of them, that
no word would be uttered By them in which
did not place implicit reliance; il they
tn, ,h,t l. l.. A
from General Taylor, | would be perfectly
sstsfed
1t was then that then read me letter from
General Taylor himself, uhich contained the
recognition Of his friends in the Philadelphia
Convention as those authorized to loithdraw
his name, if they thought proper, as those re-
terrcd to IN a precious publication of his
| at once informed my friends that this had re-
moved mountain ofdifiiculty from my mind
and though had before resolved, under all
circumstances, to support General Taylor at
Ter the first ballot, if Mr. Clay was unsuccess-
iul, | should now do ii with Iigh, aud cheer
ui heart. This Wing as he was, as | knew
him to bc--as good Wing as Henry Clay
himself thought that theuhcertainty which
hung over his position on this point was pc
cularly unfortunate.
The Louisiana Delegation then discussed
the propriely OF their making statement to
the Convention on this subject founded on
Gen. Taylors lettrr.-SoAe opposed it--not
| on the ground of such not being The duty of
as the nominee, but lhatt would h. s,na;ru
Gen LAY lor out as standing, on a difIere,,17
platform from other captftr~s,-.. -
d statement would not bt.lntdc or expected
behalf of any other candidate, aud nothing
should be done ON his behalf 10 influence the
Convention. which was mt done by other
candidates This discussion ended IN de-
termination to draw up statement in strict
conformity to the letter OF General Taylor
as literally SO, as possible, and to present it
to The Convention in the name OF the Louisl-
ana Delegation. Such is the history of the
statement made to the Convention made in
the name of the Louisiana Delegation, both
Taylor men, and Clay men.
The Louisiana Delegation assumed noting
in that statement upon tlfeir own authority
but made it from the highest and best author
ity.
'Yours, respectfully,
| n r DIrNCAN