The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1850-07-13
Gen. ravlor has Surrendered.

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Gen. Taylor has Surrendered
The great Chief whom man could not
conquer, has at last surrendered, to Death
A nation weeps for one, who from boyhood
to old age has Deen fighting her battles or
laboring for her interests and glory. A nation
mourns for one other bravest sons, who mid |
all the glories of his life boastcd no higher
honor than that which his whole lie declared
him-an honest man and firm patriot The
people, shed tears for the loss of their great
ruler With lightning tongue the sad news
of Gen. TayIor's sudden death has by this
time been communicated to almost the whole
people of the Union. Everywhere 1t has
been received with surprise and sorrow
His sickness even. was not known in many
places, as in this till it was proclaimed Gen.
Taylor is dead. A brave soldier, an I'M
finching patriot and an honest man, went
from among us with The death of our Presi-
dent We cannot write as our heart feels,
his eulogy. In the language of cotempo-
rary:
"Zachary Taylor, in his life, wrote his own
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low men in his private life. His good sense
ever won the respect of all. His firmness
ever won the admiration of all His kindly
heart. his unaffected simplicity Of manners
his charity of spirit and his noble generosity
of soul ever won the love Of all.
But not only on the hearts of his friends
and of all who knew him as man, did he
write an imperishable record OF his virtues
but in the annals oft the worlds history he has
4. Of daadS IN live 1ttp
him.
"Alexander conquered the world and per
ished ignobly, slave to his own vices. Cesa
subdned empires and then turned his unhal
lowed ambition against Rome and fell Tor III
offence. Buonaparte over-ran Europe, bu
his vaulting ambition " over-leaped itself,
and he pinned away his life in lonely an
wretched exile.
"But in Zachary Taylor the world had
Hero greater than them all. To a courag
no less. and achievements as brilliant il not {
numerous, and heart more honest and pur
Iy patriotic, he added yet more kindly vlrtu
still.
Elected by the Wing party, or by the vol
of the People, to fill the Presidential chair
this great nation, he has never disappont
party nor people, or in any prominent part
ular. failed TO meet the warmest expectato
ofhis friends. In the heat ofparty virulen
pronounced by his political opponents I'M
pabIe, he yet steadily, firmly and with r
knowledge of the countrv'-i-'si iit''iHeu ITO
-. or c.,,---,s man without political pr
siPies, he yet adopted as his principles Il
People and the Country, " and nobly carrie
them out. Condemned by his opponents
imbecile, he yet exhibited that iron firmne
and moral courage which had marked h
whole lie in the camp and on the field
Slandered by enemies too base to apprecia
the virtues Of the man, or too dishonest
acknowledge that which in him they admire
he lived down their charges and proud
arose above all contumely. Yet among {
the ISLANDERS by which he was surrounde
and opposed by men who spared no abu
that offered hope of inuring no man w
so bold as to face public opinion and the hi
tory of Gen. Taylor's life, by doubling b
honesty.
A long life of public services has sudden
closed. The country has lost faithful pu
lie servant, and the people good friend.
this peculiar time his loss will be felt by IL
country and his party most peculiarly. The
will be additional obstacles, we fear, throw
in the way of the settlement of the Califo
MIA question and the Cuba difficulty. TT
policy Of the administration was beginning
develop ITSELF and the confidence of the pc
pie becoming fully enlisted Yet a fir
Wing succeeds Gen. Taylor, in whom h
party and the people will have confidence
In MIliard Fillmore we can place our tru
and our hopes.