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Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor, by Paul Raymond Audibert, Paris.
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Zachary Taylor, Twelfth President of the United States, Born Orange County, Va., September 24, 1784; died Washington, D. C., July 9, 1850. The following is excerpted from the coverleaf of the engraving:
"The roll of our chief magistrates, since 1789, illustrious as it is, presents the name of no man who enjolyed a higher reputation with his contemporaries, or who will enjoy a higher reputation with posterity, than Zachary Taylor, for some of the best and noblest qualities which adorn our nature."
"His indomitable courage, his inimpeachable hoesty, his Spartan simplicity and sagacity, his frankness, kindness, moderation and magnannimity, his fidelity to his friends, his generosity and humanity to his enemies, the purity of his private life, the patriotism of his public principles, will never cease to be cherished in the grateful remembrance of all just men and all true-hearted Americans."
"As a soldier and a general his fame is associated with some of the proudest and most thrilling scenes of our military history. He may be literally said to have conquered every enemy he has met save only that last enemy, to which we must all, in turn, surrender."
"As a civilian and stateman, during the brief period in which he has been permitted to enjoy the transcendent honors which a grateful country had awarded him, he has given proof of a devotion to duty, of an attachment to the Constitution and the Union, of a patriotic determination to maintain the peace of our country, which no trials or temptations could shake. He has borne his faculties meekly but firmly. He has known no local partialities or prejudices, but has proved himself capable of embracing his whole country in the comprehensive affections and regards of a large and generous heart."
"But he has fallen almost at the threshold of his civil career, and at a moment when some of us were looking to him to render services to the country which we had thought no other man could perform. Certainly, sir, he has died too soon for everybody but himself. We can hardly find it in our hearts to repine that the good old man has gone to his rest. We would not disturb the repose in which the brave old soldier sleeps.*** But our regrets for ourselves and for our country are deep, strong, and unfeigned. "He should have died hereafter."
"Sir, it was a fit and beautiful circumstance in the close of such a career, that his last official appearance was at the celebration of the birthday of our National Independence, and more especially that his last public act was an act of homage to the memory of him whose example he had ever revered and followed, and who, as he himself so well said, "was by so many titles, the Father of his Country."--ROBERT C. WINTHROP (1809-1894), from an address in the House of Representatives, Washington, July 10, 1850, on announcement of the death of President Taylor. Effective published copyright, ©Mickey Cox 2002. All Rights Reserved, Mickey Cox 2002.
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