New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-17
,niIs;wiN1scrasCr Nc. Ann MILES TAYLOR.

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va have already taken occasion I'd show np
the political Inconsistencies Of this gentlemanVs
now the anti American candidate for Congress
in the Second District, for whom all adopted
citizens are urged to vote at the coming eieo.
lion. We have considerable "more grape 1
left, which we shall continue TO use as ''ie a,Au
circumstance may demand.
We have the satisfaction Of knowing thas
our revelations respecting the past public con
duct of Messrs Taylor and Davidson, and ether
a,,,; American aspirants for office, have pro-
dneed 4 profound impression on hundreds Of
class upon the undivided support Of whom they
found all their hopes Of success--namely, the
adopted citizens. These veters--at least those
who reflect and study over the matter-cannct
how it is that party protesting q
devotion to them never excelled, have managed
to put forward men for Office who were notorious
for their bitter, proscripfioe and a1irefentfng
hostility to foreigners They are unable to
comprehend the value Of such devotion. They
hear their quondam friends denouucing on
every hand the prescriptiveness Of the Ameri-
can organization, and then, perhaps while they
are exulting over these evidences Of kindness,
are startled by an unmistakabie Jact, com
pietsly dissipating the dreams of friendship in
which they had NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Of the
character above referred to.
These things have engendered feeling OF
suspicion, which is growing broader and deeper
every day which increases with every develop
ment made and which promises to become very
formidable ere the ides Of November tell the
story Of the magnificent and overwhelming
triumph Of the Americana. That suefl should
he the ease Is net to be wondered at why
should not men prefer an open, bold and manly
party, that naila it's flag TO the masthead where
all the world can see and read the notices IN
scribed upon it, to party that promises
everything and performs nothing, that asserts
friendship and practices hostility
gut. a truce to depression We have slightly
wandered off from Mr.. Miles Fayler.-to whom
We proposed paying some little attention OF the
outset, and then commenced referring to the
unparalleled inconsistencies Of our opponents
Tie anti Americans. As the subject Is fertile
one, and has no parallel in the annals of poll
tics. we imagine no harm has been done. We
have already shown that Mr.. Taylor was inn
bued With a deep seated hostility to the city Of
New Orleans that in the Constitutional Con-
yention of 1S45 he voted to draw line Of dis
grace around her; that he locked upon the
moral atmosphere Of this metropolis as 30 pol
luting that no would not allow the State capitol
to be located within less than sixty miles dis
lance from it; and that, when. appealed to not
to place q stigma upon us and to select any site
for the seat Of Government he might deem adj
yisable, he positively refused!
Yet Mr. Taylor now comes before the same
people he disgraced and injured, and asks their
votes to elect him to Congress
In the same Convention, Mr.. Taylor was Bit
terly opposed to adopted citizens, and voted for
most stringent restrictions upon them. Several
Of these votes were properly referred to and ex-
posed in last Fridays Crescent. We need not,
therefore, refer again to them. as
Yet Mr.. Taylor and his friends look for the
support Of adopted citizens, and are continually
saying all manner Of sweet things to them!
The last Thibodaux Minerva most valuable
number, by the way --furnishes to our hands
several important items respecting the political
tergiversations' of Mr. Taylor, which we sub
Join for the benefit of al parties concerned:
ssThe first heard Of Mr. Taylor politically
was when be opposed Gov White and John
Slidell for Congress in 1888. He may then hare
been in aume Democrat, IN. practice he tca8
d Wing He, in an address to the electors of
the old First Congressional District, announced
himself the advocate of a protective tariff and
a national 5aak--Andrew Jackson and the
Democracy to the contrary, Notwithstanding.
He was in 1874 q conservative Democrat with
decided Wing tendencies, and was candidate
on the Wing and Conservative ticket, and
against the Democratic candidates in the parish
Of Assumption, for the Convention which framed
che Constitution of 1916. He was elected to
the said Convention; and we will now see how
Democratic and anti american was his con-
duct by his course and votes in the said Com
yention.
aHe voted for President Of the Convention, in
favor of the conservative candidate and finer
iea8, JonN r. GRYMEs. He voted to require
residence Of five years on the part Of native and
naturslized smigrants to the State, to entitle
them to citizenship. {see Journal Of Conyen.
ton, page 60.) He voted for proposition re-
quiring residence of four years on the part Of
naturalizsd Americans after having received
certificates Of naturalization, before they could
be entitled to vote. tSee Journal, page 70.)
And lastly, he made speech explanatory Of
these Democratic and anti-.dmeyican opinions
which he then entertained"
From the foregoing it Is apparent that Miles
Tayloris o politician Of various compilations and
faces. In political faces he surpasses all COM
peers, either Of modern or ancient origin,
Janus would be nowhere, wera helm the Second
District He had only two faces, and wasn't
allowed any more. He could only look two ways
at the same time But MIR. Taylor is far more
fortunate. He can face every quarter indicated
by the political compass, moving neither his
head nor his body A good Louisiana Democrat,
he opposed Senator Shdell for Congress A
good National Democrat, he was in .favor Of o
Protective Tariff and National Bank. An ar
don't friend Of foreigners, he strove, in the Con-
vention Of 1915, to deprive them Of rights they
profess to hold most dear A bitter enemy of
New Orleans, upon which city he inflicted iDju-
ries that millions Of dollars would not suffice to
repair, he now comes before the largest half of
the people of that same city and asks them to
assist in his elevation to the national legislature