The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-07-18

GENERAL TAYLoR.-The following we
take from the speech of Hon. ]. Wightman
4 Smith, of New Orleans, at a recent Wing
Ratification meeting in Brattleboro,-as re-
& ported in the Eagle.
For myself, as a Southern man, and to the
4 extent of the local attachments which every
& one cherishes-I could wish to find him Gen.
3 Taylor) connected with the South by the
strongest tics-ButI may not shut nv eyes to
the reality. His family has resided a. Baton
q Rouge military post-but a few years, and
a since he was called to the vicinity by his pub
4 lie duties. During nearly all the time since
4 he has been absent from the State. Nor does
{ he own, to my knowledge, any property in
4 louisiana, though he docs in Mississippi
: Born in the same State with Washington,
4 Monroe and Harrison, his father soon emigra-
ted to Kentucky, and there Injured his early
4 years to the hardships of a frontier life. He
I WAS brought up as a farmer-not the idle,
wealthy, gentleman farmer, but the hard
working, hard handed, daily laborer in
$the field. Often, said a friend of mine,|
who was brought up in the same neighbor-
hood, have | seen Zach. Taylor at the
plough tail in the field. And a harder
working and more persevering young man
was not to he found. And we often, said
The, attended balls and social parties to-
But there the young beau could
ibis ovenlent Nature had withheld!
from him some of her graccs of manner.
Tie could not trip the light fantastic toe;
i'm the most approved style. His coat did
not conform to tie elegance of fashion,
In fine, he was no hero in the eye of the
bellies of the evening. But by the r%eflect-l
ling fathers and mothers of his acquain-I
.ltance, Zachary was held up as a model
for his quiet, %unassuming department, his
'modesty, his untiriDg industry, his sound
Judgment, his good sense. his devotion|
to the solid and useful requirements, and
his habit of minding his own business.
While Zachary was working at his dali
|ly labor, the Yankee School Master vent
abroad and the young farmer became his'
pupil. Thus was laid the basis of that
acquired intclligence-that solid educa-|
|tion which has been so conspicuous in his|
subsequent public career: in the correct
and elegant dispatches from his pen, in|
the plan drawn up by him for the o%rgani-)
'%zation of the militia of the United States,
in the decisions of the numerous court;
!martials of which he has been a member
land almost always the organ, in hisl
brilliant defence Of the equalization of
Monterey against the assaults of MarcyI
land Polk backed by a L.ocofoco House of
Representatives and fifteen immortal SEMI
|ators, headed by Lewis Cass and aboveI
all in the profound respect and unlimited:
obedience he has always paid. in the NAL
my delicate and embarrassing positions of
his public career, to the constitution and;
laws of his country.
The rumors of Indian barbarities andi
lof the meditated treason of Burr fired hisI
bosom, and leaving the field and his studs!
lies, he offered his services as a volunteer.
Thus was he drawn from agricultural pur-!
3suits, to which he has ever been and vet!
lremains fondly attached, and to which, i'll
he felt at liberty to indulge his own incli-I
nations, he would now gladly return toI
lenioy that repose in the bosom ofhis ami>i
able family. of which he has been depriv>!
ed during the forty years ofhis public life
But the people are determined to makel
even numbers of it by adding four years.
more, from the 4th of March next, sol
as to make Al years of his public service.I
I.u RpOrrxt On S.turJ,, L.,