The Arkansas Banner

Another Letter from Gen. Taylor.

We find the following extract of a letter from Gen. Taylor, to a friend in Charleston, in the Evening News of the 10th instant:

"I never had any aspirations for the Presidency nor have I now, further than the wishes of my friends are concerned in the matter, nor would I have it on any other terms than I stated when the subject was first agitated, which is, that my acceptance must be without pledges or being trammelled in any way, so that I could be the President of the Nation and not of a party.

I have accepted the nomination of the Philadelphia Convention, as well as the nomination of many primary assemblies gotten up in various sections of the Union—in some instances irrespective of party—and would have accepted the nomination of the Baltimore convention, had it been tendered on the same terms. I am now fully, if not fully, before the country as a candidate for the Chief Magistracy; and if I should be by good or bad fortune to be elected, I trust my course will be such, for the most part, as regards the management of our national affairs, as will meet the approbation of my fellow-citizens. Should they fail to do so, they will, I feel, have the charity to attribute my errors to the head and not to the heart."

Very respectfully,

Your friend,

Z. TAYLOR.