New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-10-03
Ms, MILES taylor,

we nave TAKEN OCCASION 10 snow, several
times, that this gentleman possessed no claim
whatever upon the suffrages of the people Of
New Orleans, or upon the sutfrages of adopted
citizens in the Second Congressional District,
whether residents of the city or country. In
fact, we think we have demonstrated, that in
stead of receiving the support of the one or the
other, he should encounter their hearty and
jealous opposition. And he will encounter it,
unless, indeed, the christian precept Of return
ing good for evil, love for hate, friendship for
enmity, has obtained controlling influence among
the persons and parties interested.
But, as Christianity has little in common
with politics, unfortunately, we are inclined to
the opinion that those whom Mr.. Taylor has
taken every occasion to smite and despitefully
use, will strike back, hard and heavy, whenever
the opportunity presents itself. We don't be-
lieve, because he has buffeted them on one
cheek, they will then turn round and present
the other for blow from his stalwart fist. 1t
is not natural they should do SO and we have
little confidence in anything unnatural That
they will attempt to knock his political as
pirations in the head, is more in consonance
with the American character.
We regard it as an unwarrantable piece of
presumption in Mr.. Taylor to come before the
people of New Orleans and ask them to aid in
his election to Congress. We are alluTing to
the politieian--not the individual, As q poll
tician, MIR. Miles Taylor is SO justly obnoxious
to the citizens of New Orleans that we cannot
see how any of them, with decent elf-respsct,
l. lo -,
Office be opposed their best interests. When he
had power in his hands he trampled them under
foot as though they were not entitled to ordi-
nary consideration. When he was armed with
plenary authority and unbounded influence, in
the Convention of 1916, he aided in drawing,
and insisted that it should be drawn-no en-
treaties and arguments suficed to move him-a
circle, aye, a DaH Of disgrace, around the
city of New Orleans! He would not allow the
seat of government to be located within sixty
miles Of this metropolis. The polluting i'ltiu-
ences Of the Crescent City were of such de-
grading character that Mr.. Taylor felt hardly
safe in the distance fixed upon. And, when ap
pealed to not to affix the stigma Of constitu
tional reproach upon New Orleans, and to locate
the capital where he pleased, he would not
listen to it, but insisted that the prohibition
should form part and parcel of the organic
lawi And there it stood, section of the high
est law of the land, until 1852, a fostering, cor
roding disgrace, upon the great commercial en-
porium of the Southwest a.u1 -.....
Yet before this wronged. insulted, injured
and outraged people, Mr.. Miles Taylor has the
n n nlicitt hap To al eat
him to Congress!
In the same Convention he sought to restrict
the rights of adopted citizens-to circumscribe
the privileges of the very men upon whom he now
mainly depends for an election to Congress
without whose aid he would not muster a cor
porals guard of supporters He voted and
spoke in favor of Mr., Benjamin's proposition
that none but a natiue should be eligible to the
office of Gopernort He also voted for five
years residence in the State to qualify one to
be representative, and to require four gears
residence in the State, By naturali=ed citizens,
AFTER RECEIPT OF CERTIFICATE OF NATURALIza-
TIoN
Here are few Of the claims Of Mr.. Taylor
upon adopted citizens, whose votes he now asks
to enable him to accomplish an object Of darling
ambition. Of course, they are at liberty to
vote for him if they choose, but we are at loss
to understand the consistency of the transac-
ton. We have no right to object Still we
may inquire.
But we are not done with Mr.. Miles Taylor
yet. We have other developments to spread be-
fore the public, and we are determined that
everybody shall know all about his peculiar
claims to the Office he seeks at the hands of the
sufragans Of the Second District-both native
and adopted, metropolitan and suburban. He
is entitled to that justice from the journalists of
the district, and SO far as we are concerned, he
shall have it.
We have already shown how particularly
friendly Mr. Taylor was to foreigners, as q
member of the convention of 1876. We now
proceed to bring forward other evidence, going
to prove that the same friendship, although
somewhat more extended, animated Mr.. Tay-
lor's bosom in April last. And, to do SO tho
roughly, we beg to refer the reader to the state
ments contained in the subjoined letter from
Judge james M. Elan, of Baton Rouge, than
whom more truthful man does not live, as is
We'll known throughout TIC Dtate: Anu, IN
passing, we will remark that the statements, if
will be verified by two other ire
proachable gentlemen.
By reference to Judge Elsm's letter-the
italics, etc., are our own-the fact is made
clear that Mr.. Miles Taylor, nti-American
candidate for Congress in the Second District,
in April last, made use of language towards
foreigners more offensive in itsscope and bearing
than any embodied in the American platform,
which is furiously denounced by his adherents
This may sound strange. but it is, nevertheless,
true, He was understood to say, sswithout
qualification, that if something was not done,
aud done speedily, to purify the ballot box from
the corrupting influence Of the vote Of for
eigners, american liberty mould be lost,n
Strong language from foreign candidate
language that ought to be remembered. But
strong as this phraseoiogy unquestionably was,
Mr. Taylor proceeded to indul in still stronger,
going beyond anything advocated at the present
day. For instance: he was free to confess
that American liberty would be better pre-
served by restricting the electius franchise TO
THE FREEHoLDER; that none but man who
had identified himself with the community, BY
AN OWNERSHIP OF THE SOIL, SHOULD BE AL