Hope & New Orleans by Sally Asher

Author:Sally Asher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2014-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

City Bark, on Zachary Taylor Drive in City Park, is a 4.6-acre dog park for dogs of all sizes to play off leash. The Mardi Gras Bead Dog sculpture by Kathy Miller Stone is part of “Paws on Parade,” a citywide project that raised money for the Louisiana SPCA.

Taylor earned the nickname “Old Rough and Ready” during the Seminole War for his willingness to endure the hardships of field battle. He frequently appeared disheveled and scruffy but was nevertheless exalted as a national hero. Consequently, multiple political parties wooed him for public office. His background had national appeal: northerners admired Taylor’s military background, and southerners appreciated that he was a slave owner. Ultimately, he aligned himself with the Whig Party. Political clubs called “Rough and Ready Clubs” sprang up across the country. Taylor was immensely popular in New Orleans, and on January 22, 1848, his supporters met at the Commercial Exchange to promote Taylor’s potential candidacy. There were so many that the building could not hold them all.359 In September 1848, New Orleans held a torchlight procession in honor of Taylor on the anniversary of the Battle of Monterrey; more than thirty Rough and Ready Clubs participated.360

During his presidency, Taylor vowed to follow his nationalist views, and despite owning about one hundred slaves, he took a hands-off stance on slavery, preferring to limit federal involvement and maintain sectional peace.361 Still, as talk of southern secession grew, Taylor announced in 1850 that he would personally lead the army against southerners who threatened secession, promising to hang anyone involved (including son-in-law Jefferson Davis).362

Taylor served only sixteen months of his presidency before dying of cholera morbus. He was the nation’s first (and so far only) Louisiana resident elected president. Years later, New Orleans named two streets after him. In 1924, parts of McDonogh, Elk and Urania in Uptown were renamed GENERAL TAYLOR, and in 1937, the city dedicated ZACHARY TAYLOR DRIVE in City Park during the annual City Park Festival. In life, he may have been disheveled and unkempt, but in New Orleans, Taylor fits well in the manicured confines of City Park.

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