A Funeral Oration On The Death Of President Zachary Taylor

Author : John L. Miner
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ISBN 13 : 9781331276197
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book An Oration on the Life and Character of Zachary Taylor written by John L. Miner and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Oration on the Life and Character of Zachary Taylor: Late President of the United States, Delivered in Cincinnati, at the Funeral Solemnites in Honor of the Deceased, August 1, 1850 A Second time, my friend, within a period of less than ten years, we are assembled within this house of God, sorrowing for the loss of the Chief Executive Magistrate of the nation. On the 14th of May, 1841, we met here to mingle our tears and give expression to our great regret for the death of the President of the United States our own beloved and venerated friend and neighbor, William Henry Harrison. The Almighty, in his inscrutable Providence, has stricken down by death, from the same exalted office, one equally illustrious, on account of his public services, and especially beloved and revered for the rarest combination of great virtues - Zachary Taylor, the Chief Magistrate, the chosen head of this great nation, has "gone to his long home," and all the people mourn, mourn the hero, mourn the magistrate, mourn the man. Harrison and Taylor - these two of all the Presidents, and these within, comparitively, a very short period of each other, died in office - the one, as it were, on the very threshold, the other in the beginning, of their administrative career - died, when hopes of wise guidance and greatest good from them were strongest and brightest - died, "when our need was the sorest." Our minds go back to the times when these two distinguished men were last, and for the last time, in our midst; the times immediately preceeding the periods of their inauguration into that high office, to which they had been chosen by the suffrages of a majority of their fellow citizens, by reason of services rendered, and qualities possessed by them, in many respects of striking similarity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.