Gazette and sentinel., 1860-02-18
Miles Taylor "SIloWs his Hand"

The able and distinguished Representative
of the Second District, Hon. Miles TAYLOR,
has com out in a bold and unflinching eX~
preston Of sentiments and a policy, which
have not a responsive throb, doubtless, in the
breasts of one in a hundred Of his Democra-
tic constituents; and that be will be arraigned
and condemned at the bar Of public opinion
Of his district and the whole State, is as GER
tain as that the principles of his ~favorite are
obnoxious to Southern feeling and fatal to
Southern interests.
Mr.. TAYLOR has placed himself in this IN
enEiable position through the declarations Of
a letter that he has addressed to the Hon.
LOuIs BuSH, aud first published in the True
Delta. We should also be pleased to insert
it in full, If other matters, which occupy our
space, had not precedence. We can there
fore only endeavor to give our readers a faith
full synopsis.
The letter slludcd to was in response to one
from Mr.. BUsH, enclosing the Resolutions up
on Federal Relations, submitted BY Capt. II
w. ALLEN, in the House OF Representatives,
requesting his opinion upon them. Mr.. TAY-
LoR deprecates any action upon those Reso-
lutions at this time. He says the slavery ques-
ton has reached a crisis, and that it must be
put an end to or the Union dissolved. 1t can
only be stopped in one way, by putting down
the Northern agitators Of the question-and
this can only be accomplished by their North
ern fellow citizens in the approaching election,
or the South must withdraw from the existing
cohfederacy. He is opposed to any action at
this time tending to a separate government,
because of its tendency to prejudice our Nor.
thern friends, TO whom We owe a deep debt
OF gratitude for The manner in which they
have, up to this time, battled against the
workings Of Northern fanatics. He has re,
Elected deeply upon the present position Of
parties, and be can see no hope for the Union
but in the candidacy Of STEPHEN 4. DoUGLAs
for the Presidency IL such is the ultima
tum, we may be permitted to e~xclairn, God
save the country!
Mr.. TAYLOR floceeds to say that Mr.. DUUG
LAS entcrtains principles condemned by the
South, IL was unnecessary to tell the South
cur. His reasons for supporting DoUGLAs are,
that in the event Of the ensuing Presiden.
tial election going, in the North, against the
Democratic party, the South in his opinion,
must pronounce the Union at an end. The
election OF a Democratic President, however,
cannot preserve the Union there must be a
complete revolution in Northern politics. Not
~oRiyIuust the DEMOCRACY carryra pajority Fl
the electoral votes, to save the Unieu, but
there must be unrnistskable evidences 10 the
various elective. legislative and judicial depart
ments Of the Northern States to respect the
rights Of the South, and to punish all viola
tons OF those rights. Such p result, Mr.
TAYLOR asserts, can only be obtained by the
election Of a man to the Presidency who is
the embodiment Of the friendly feelings of the
North towards us-and that man is STEPHEs A.
DoUGLAs.-that he has full possession Of the
popular mind OF the North-and that il he is
nominated by the Democracy, such p~atriot-
ism will arise, and so forth, as will-well,
finally elect him.
Entertaining these opinions, Mr.. TAYLOR adj
vises every body in Louisiana 10 90 it with a
rush for ~DoUGLAs-that be would do it were
be here. That rush has already been COM
menced in this State, and the result is typefed
in the intelligence CT the New Orleans prima-
ry elections. 1t is gloirously satisfactory to
US, and to the Democracy Of Iberville. Let
US initiate it-in the Meeting to be held to day .
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