Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1850-07-13
The Death Of the President.

Returns 10 deck their halowed mould,
She there shall dress a sw1Sceier sod,
Than Fsncy's feet have trod.
BY fairy lands their knell is rinias
BY forhIs tinseer Their dirge is sung;
There HorF,T comes. a %prilgrinl gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
10 dwell . weeping hermit thete,'
1t is with feelings Of sorrow and pam
Mst1ch as We have no language to express
.Mtitat we this morning announce the deatf
Hof Gen. ZACHARY TAYLOR, President o
Rthe United States. IT. departed this life
Wat five minutes p,st 10 O'Clock on the even
,Miug Of Tuesday last, 9th instant. lii
Hdiscasc, AZ a~nnouhced III the telcgrnphit
gdrspatclies, was bilious cholic. He was
i'll on the sth. aid before midnight
Non the OH, lis great heart had ceased tt
Nbeat. and his soul had returned to the Coz
Xwllo gave it.
n This sudden; this unlooked-for, this NV,
Nful event, will fill the hearts of "A whole
Enntion with mourning and sorrow. Nc
Hintelligelce of his illness preceded the sac
M1 announcement of lis death. The last
Hucws from Washington gave forth that
Ntle illustrious Chief of the Republic was
Hin the cnloyme,u Of good health and the
Edesratch, borne on the Lightning wings OF
@the telegraph, that he, whom all hcatts
Slowed and vrnerated as an individual, and
Mwhoin millions revcrcd rs a President,
Hwas laying cold and silent in that dream
@lcss sleep that knows no waking, came
4 upon our startled senses like aclap of tinul-
adcr from n clear sky, The event was 50
i Sudden, On the morning Of the Sth well,
5Nalid before the "noon Of night the day
Naflcr succeeding, the Head ofthe Mightcst
. Nation the earth knows, was rs cold, as
d IelrIcss, as powerloss, rs the meanest clo'|
Ndf the valley! That mighty heart of pa
u riotisin had ceased to beat. That great
.llcart, whose tlrobbings were all for his
Ncot1ntry, which had known no other love,
(which had ycartlcd towards his native land
with all The affection mother bears to her
ntirst born, had become pulsclcss, void Of
and shroudcd in the icy embraces
Rof the fell destroyer of the great, the good,
xand the lovely. That arm, erst SO stall
4wart and 60 strong, when danger gathered
Naround his coultry's banner on fields Of
5carnagc, and cufccrc1 on the deadly lance.
Aand lowered IN the unfolding wings of the
Hcharging cavalry, could no more strike for
Hlhe land he loved SO wcIl-no more en-
aforce the sublime expression that its owner
4 'ncver surrendered'-no more prove to
Hl,is country's enemies that the might of a
a%frecmau's arm was as irresistible as the
Adccrees Of fate or of the power of the ocean
8whcn dashed into widest fury.
! The youthful victor at Fort Harrison,
9luring the last war, the srbd,tcr of the
Riron-hcarted Scminoles, the coilq,irror at|
EPalo Alto and Resaca dc Ia Palma, thc|
I victorious storrner of Monterey, the lau|
relied Chief of 0comparable Bnena Vista,
the soldier of forty years, and the patriot
president, made SO amid the plaudits of nj
grateful people, has been stricken down inI
8 the hcighth of his power, in the midst of
6his usefulness, and in the enjoyment Of Il!
position that acknowledges no equal al
Smong the high places Of the earth. AL
round his yet Enclosed grave let no unpat-l
1riotic thoughts intrule. He was II patriot
lie loved hie country, and upon her ali
tar, in her defence, and for her prosperity
would have clicerlully shed the last drop
+ of his hearts blood. Let the great men of
hour country at Washington read an IN
= structive lesson III his untilncly deccasc.I
lie had reached the topmost round in theI
ladder of honorable ambition. without
stain or blerhish upon his escutcheon. Lc,I
them strive, to initiate his example-lctl
them be patriotic as he was patriotic--let|
them gathe{ around the newly made gravel
cof the illusttious departed, and there makcI
W covenant ahat they will heal the wounds
OF this dlstrs cted coulltry-restorc peace to-
Sour national councils, and exercise tile fell
Esprit of scctionalis1n from the land of
\ Washington. Let them do this as he|
would have done had he lived, and thew
Twill render the highest honor to the memo-|
Try Of the erc~at-departcd. And, finally, lett
samhitions aspirants reccollect that in the'
Hour of thea triumph they may be called
ITO settle with the Great Judge to whomI
fall secrets are known, who distinguishes
Between the patriotic and rnpatriotic, the,
sgood and the bad, and that it will be best
sfor them if they have acted their parts
HERE below as he acted his, periodically,
awisely, anG with pure and noble intentions.
: Acknowledgements.