New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-09
INTERR 0GATORIEs.

III ID
il a highly respected citizen Of New Orleans
sends US the subioined interroga and oour-
II teously solioits answers thereto:
aIs the Hon. Miles Taylor a native of the United
stases Has he not passed as native And il he not
actually a native Of 1reland2H
Up to within few days we have always I'M
derstood that the Hon Miles Taylor was native
born citizen Of the North American confedera-
A oy. We have known him to run for office seve-
raj times during his particularly unlucky politi-
cal career, and have never heard the slightest
whisper that he was anything but simon
pure, out and out native. Neither himself, nor
his friends, so far as our knowledge extends, or
J any body else, have ever intimated, or caused
J to be intimated, that he was born across the
water. We cannot bring to mind solitary in
!; stance where either he or they have ever re-
! ferred to- or made known, in any manner what
ever, any claim that he possessed to the distinc-
ton Of foreign parentage.
4 Indeed, his course in the Convention of 1876
was such as to lead one to suppose that he was
the strongest sort of a native American-almost
as good q g Know Nothing " as the present era
can produce. He spoke and voted in favor Of
Senator Benjamin's proposition to erclude all
but natives from the office Of Governor Of Louis
lana; was in favor of five years residence to
make man eligible to the post of representa-
| tive; and sought to make the requirement i'm
4 perative that naturalzed citizens, after re-.
ceipt of their certificates, should be compelled
to remain four gears in the State to entitle
them to the prerogatiyes of citizenship!
1 Such course as this, on the part of the dis
tinguished gentleman, naturally led to the con-
clusion that his proolivities tended to native
American principles If not, why should he
seek to engraft upon the organic law of the
State such stringent restrictions upon foreign
ers' Why should he strive to render the Gu
bernatorial chair unattainable to adopted citi-
zens, and to hamper their political aspirations
by the enactment Of constitutional difficulties !?
| Whether tbs conclusion that Mr. Taylor was
| native of the United States was we'll founded
or otherwise, one thing is certain: the career
of that gentleman naturally led the public mind
| to its formation. We have now answered the
two first questions, satisfactorily, we trust.
| AS to the third interrogatory, whether Mr.. I.
| is actually 'snative of Ireland we are una
\ BILE to say. We will remark, however, that we
have heard it asserted that such is the fact!
| And, we listened to the assertion with more
| than ordinary establishment. 1t seemed to us
| almost impossible that man who had worked
to exclude adopted citizens from the highest
office known to the constitution of Louisiana,
could, himself q foreigner by birth, be now a
candidate for Congress on the foreign side The
Inconsistency Of action seemed actually incred-
| ible. At one period striving to strike do,oaa
adopted citizens, as sworn member of con-
stitutional convention, and, at another, seeking
the ootes of those same adopted citizens to ele-
yate him to Congress!
| Aside from these considerations, which con-
Germ Mr.. Taylor more than anybody else, we
| are unable to see why native of Ireland should
| deny his birthplace. Ireland has produced
many great and glorious men. In arms, in
eloquence, in literature and in song, some of
the noblest names that sparkle on the pages Of
the earths history, belong to Ireland Let her
sons cherish and honor her, instead of passiyely
denying the spot of their birth. There may be
cloudy present--a gloomy future, so far as
independence is coneerned-but as Daniel Web
ster once said about Massachusetts, i" the mast
at least is secure" We're we Irishmen, as we
are Americans, we would suffer q thousand
deaths, were that possible, before we would adj
init, directly or indirectly, that the sun of
another land first shone upon our infant ewes.
And we would as zealously maintain the funda-
mental doctrine, g ireland for the Irish.' az Wa
do now the self-same doctrine" America for
the Americans" There is not the smallest diff
ference in the great principle enunciated by
oGonnell, and the cardinal principle of the
American organization of the United States,
save that which is involved in its application to
another country. And, SO with ell other ma
tionalities. While the Irish should rule Ire
land, the English England, the Scotch Scot
land, the French France, the Germans Ger.
many, the spaniards spain-and this is what
the natives Of those countries assert an explicit
and exclusive right to dot follows, as natu- |
raj consequence, that Americans should rule |
In America. The principle is exactly the same, |
and if 1T is wrong in one instance, it is wrong
in all the others
Ihat the exclusive doctrines of the American |
party may operate oppressively in many in |
stances, we are free to admit. We would like
to see it otherwise Among our Oldest friends |
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adopted citizens; and we know not Of one who
does not approve of our policy as whole. But
is it possible to enact general law of natural
zatlon that will discriminate between the intel |
ligent, the honest and the Industrious, who are |
always welcome, and the pauper hordes that are |
thrown upon our shores That is the question
involved. We are unable to perceive how the
object can be accomplished. General laws are
made for the general good, and it will not do to
permit individual grievances to arrest their ope-
ration.
But we find we are depressing widely from our
subject and therefore will clip the thread of our
DISCOURSE suddenly at this point
DEMOCRATIC PARISH CONVENTION We un-
lerstand that the Parish Convention of the
Antics, which met last night, made the following
Senatorial nominations: Messrs d. d. Withers,
ienry st. Paul and H. NJ. Hyams.
The two latter are we'll known, old, true blue
Wigs, the former q Democrat! What, sin
ne name of all the Gods at once,'' has got into
he faction that claims the once henored title of