Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-09-28

BAroN ROUGE, La, June 10, l8iS


Gentemen,-I have the kes<sS 10 acknow-
ledge the receipt OF your polite communication,
Of the l2th inst, calling my attentJn 10 GER
tain statements relating TO my position before
the country as candidate for the Presidency,
which are represented To have been made IN
the Wing National Convention held at Phlladel-
phia, pending the action of that body, ny Judge
Saunders, Of Louisiana, in the name of the
delegation of that State, and requesting to he
informed whether such statements were made
by my authority. inform you in reply, that
on their way to that Convention, Judges Win
chester and Saunders, ofthe Louisiana Delega-
iion, who have been for many years my person
al friends and neighbors, wrote, requesting
INV views before the meeting of the Conyen-
tion, as to the course desired my friends To
pursue in that body In two communications
addressed to them in reply, informed them IN
substance, that at my distance from the scene,
it would be impossible for me to give any
special instructions upon the subject that many
questions or contingencies might arse during
the action Of the Convention, the character Of
which | could not foretell, and that they must
Therefore assume the responsibility of acting
for me that felt my honorand interest SAFE
in their hands that whatever they should see
! III 10 10, WOulu uOSt l&PPlO'S'
| Substantially informed them further, that
unless they should discover an evident dlsl osl-
ton to treat me unfairly, which had no reason
for supposing would be Il case, thought
nv friends should 90 into Convention, as Athcy
had been selected by their fellow citizens for
this purpose but having once entered 1t, they
were of course bound, If were not nomInai-
ed to sustain and support the nominee, whoever
he might be and ! hoped they would do so,
heart and soul that was candidate for the
| Presidency only 70 far as my friends had
chosen TO make me but having been placed IN
my present attitude towards that subject wltE-
out any, agency or act Of my own, directly or
indirectly, did not feel myself at liberty by
any sdch act to withdraw myself; that my
friends, in whose hands had ever been, could
do so whenever they SHOULD sec fit and finally,
! if they could succeed in Gflecting TO that Office
any one better quallfeaaiur us duty than was,
and who was at the sass. time hopse+, truthful,
and patriotic, it was thAf ddty to- 80 for him,
and so far from being disappointed or mortified,
| should hail the result with JOY.
Under the general authority fhus given 10
these gentlemen, shall deem whatever state
ments they may have made to bu right and
proper and confident Of their integrity and in
the sincerity of their friendship stall sustain
them without qualification. ] therefore take
upon my own shoulders the responsibility of
of the acts of the Louisiana delegation in the
Convention, and am prepared to stand by tho
consequences, in their length and breadth.
regret exceedingly that my friends III Baltimore
whom YOU represent, should thus misunderstood
the course pursued by the Loulsiana delegation
in Convention, aud should have imagined had
abandoned the position | held in my published
letters on this subject.
/ fee. bound to respect the opntens OF those
who honestly differ from me and while feel
conscious of no change in my feeling, or IN
consistency on my part, | cannot expect or
desire that any of my friends whom you repre-
sent should do violence to their own sense OF
right and wrong by supporting my election,
while they believe have changed my political
views.
4 ask no man, be he Whig or Democrat, or
Native American, for his vote. take every
American citizens interest in the welfare f
his country to be as pure and as dep As my
own and have therefore no right, and certain.
" no desire, to nnunce his action the eXer'i c
of the important duty Of voting for officers OF
his government
\ With due respect, &c.
Il. TAYLOR.
To Messrs. Chas. II. Phillips, J. w. Walker,