Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Eulogy on the Life and Character of Zachary Taylor: President of the United States, July 18, 1850
I know, gentlemen, it will be your Wish to pay every mark of respect to the memory of one whom we have delighted to honor, the chosen of the people, and the favored of Heaven - one whom we had hoped to see among us, and to welcome to our homes - but whom we shall now never meet on earth.
Bred from his early youth to the service of his country, having devoted his whole life to her cause, and having never shrunk from danger or avoided responsibility in herdefence, the last great summons was promptly met, and his characteristic response was.
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