Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1850-07-26

death of the President of the United States,
but was not furnished in time for our last
paper:
Address Of Gen. II. G. HaIes
Nix FRIENDs:-Thc occasion which calls
us together is one Of peculiar solemnity. As
children meet together to pour forth their
united grief at the death of beloved pa
rent, so on this day our nation mourns the
death of its political parent. President
Taylor is dead! and we, as part of the
great family of States. have left our homes
10 unite in lamenting his death, and paying
proper tribute of respect to his memory.
A few months since and death seized in
his icy grasp the lamented James *. Polk,
ex-President Of the United States; and on
two successive occasions, apparently but
as yesterday, we were assembled in this
temple TO mourn the death of President
Harrison and ex- President Jackson. They
were all great men--beloved in life and
mourned in death. By long and arduous
service they had merited honor from the
people, and the people had bestowed upon
them their highest honors; and when they
died nation mOurned. Again has the
angel of death swept over our land, and the
great head OF the people has fallen from the
high pinnacle to which he had been eeva-
ted by his grateful countrymen. At the
capital of our country, at this very moment,
a noble array of the great and the brave of
our land are following the lifeless remains
of the hero to his tomb. Such honors are
fitting, and speak we'll both for him who
died and those that mourn. But we,
though unaccompanied by the pomp and
parade there displayed trust, mourn our
loss with grief equally sincere, and render
TO the memory of the noble dead homage
equally ennobling. In every village, town
or cottage throughout this whole country,
Zachary Taylor was ho1ored and beloved,
and in each and all the news Of his untimely
death has spread the dark clouds of grief.
Zachary Taylor was born in Orange coun-
ty, Virginia. September oath, 1884. His
father had been a soldier of the Revolution,
and in the year 1903 he followed his faith
er's example, and entered the army as
First Lieutenant. In 1912, as Captain, he
commanded at the gallant defence of Fort
Harrison, and won his first laurels, for
which he was brevetted Major. In 1919,
he was made Lieutenant Colonel; in 1882,
a Colonel, and served with distinction in
the Black Hawk War. In 1886 he was
ordered to Florida, and, at the battle of
Okee-Chobe, won the distinction of Brevet
Brigadier General, In lS45 he took the
command of the Army of Occupation, on
the Rio Grande, and won imperishable re-
nown in the battles Of Palo Alto and Resaca
de la Palma, on the 9Th and 9th of May,
lS46. The 2lst, 22nd, and 23d of Sep
tember, gave him the victorious possession
of Monterey; and on the 22d and 23d of
February, l647, he won his richest gar
land on the field Of Buena Vista. The
land mcurned for the blood of her best and
bravest, poured forth on that CORY plain;
but with her tears for the lost, she watered
the laurels with which to crown the Hero
Chief.
The highest honors Of this great republic
were conferred upon him; and, although
opposed by one of the greatest and most
popular men of our land, General Taylor
was elected President in November, l846.
On the 4th of March, lS49, he entered
upon his duties as the Chief Magistrate of
this great nation, and now, after the brief
period of sixteen months, we are called
upon to inourn his loss. From every part
of our land we hear the cries of mourning
the outpouring of the hearts by whom /,
he was beloved. All parties and all classes
for time forget their chickering's and unite !
in testifying their gratitude for his services
and their mourning for his loss. But the
richest tribute to his memory is to be found
in the proceedings of the United States
Senate. There we find, amongst other
distinguished Senators, his late competitor
for the Presidency, Gen. Cass, pouring
forth his deep, heartfelt feeling at the death
of his victorious opponent. What noble
contrast does the simplicity of our free IN
stitulions here present, when compared
with the old world! There the unsuccess-
ful competitor for the crown would be con-
signed to gloomy dungeon, or ban!shed
to foreign land. Here the defeated can
didate records, in undying language, the
services and virtues of the victor.
1t is gratifying to US, to see the waves OF
political strife stayed in the Halls of Con-
gress, and heart joined to heart in this hour
Of bitter grief and mourning. May this.
kind feeling reign there, as elsewhere,
throughout our whole land; and as we
stand around the grave Of our honored and
lamented President, let US unite our hearty
prayers that the Union may be preserved
unimpaired, and the blessings of civil and
religious liberty rendered perpetual in our
beloved country!