The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1850-07-20
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NORTH CAROLINIAN
WIN. HI. Bayne. Editor and Proprietor.
FA AYETTEVILLE n. C..
JULY 20, 1850.
THE LATE PRESIDENT.

The death Of President Taylor has beenxe
celved with astonishment every where, because
SO sudden and unexpected. He joined in the
ceremonies of the fourth of July. and was slight
ly indisPosed on the 5th, when he was attacked
with cholera morbus, foil lowed by intermittent
fever OF these symptoms he only relieved
by death. His physicians did not make known
the danger of his situation, until the morning OF
the day of his death, hoping favorable change
He died on the night of the 9th, at 35 minutes
past 10 o'clock after illness Of only five days,
and that illness not made public until within a
day two of his death. He leaves behind wife
and several children. (H;s wife was very much
opposed to his being candidate for the Prcs-
dency, and prayed that he might not be elected
IA doubt anticipating what hundreds OF others
anticipated. that the change Of mode Of life, and
the excitement and turmoil Of politics, would
prove fatal in his case, it had in Gen. Harri-
sons. Cholera morbus is often times the pecu-
liar offspring of the passions; and where it is
hrousht on by excitement and fatigue, it is almost
certain to prove fatal, unless the excitement can
be allayed. OF course it was impossible to allay
it in the case of the President; surrounded as he
was by politicians of all sorts, and knowing as he
did, the agitated state of feeling in both Houses
of Congress and the country.)
The last words uttered by the President are
given in different versions. One version we gave
last Saturday in the proceedings of the meeting
held in Fayetteville We that Vice Presi-
dent Fillmore gives another version, to- wit:
'sI have always done my duty l am ready
My only regret is for the friends leave behind
me-"
As soon as the President expired, the bell Of
the State Department was rung, followed by all
who were all present at the Executive mansion
immediately waited on Vice President Fillmore.
and announced the fact, and rendered aheir resig-
nations. Mr. Fillmore requested them to remain
at their posts until he should select others to
relieve them.
So that it appears in government affairs, there
is very little ceremony used about filling places.
AS it is in the ranks of the army, the living
march steadily on over the corpses Of the dead to
fill the gap which grape and canister have made
and the living body which encompasses "great-
ness' sinks to the level of 'the dust of the earth
as soon as its vitality has fled.
Mr. Hilliard, in his euloGy, alluded to the re-
mark of a French orator, who, when requested
to pronounce an Grafton over the dead body of
king, laid his hand upon the head Of the monarch
ard said
Gen. Taylor born in Orange county, Vir-
ginia, oath September, 1884, and was there
fore &c years efage. His last appearance in pub-
lie was on the 4th of July, at the Washington
Monument; and his last public act was to affix
his gnature to the Convent recently conclud-
ed between the United States and Great Britain.
He has left wife (the first and only onc), two
daughters and son. The daughters married to
DR. Wood, surgeon of the army, and toNlaj Bliss.
He entered the army as a Lieutenant on the Sd
of May, 1903, and continued in it without inter
ruption to near the time Of his taking his seat as
President Owe hope it will be the last time
that the American people will show so little
gard for s'fitness of things as to elect officer
of the army to the office of Chief Magistrate Of
the country.}
1t will se seen by the extracts which we take
from the eulogies spoken in Congress, that the
death of the President is looked upon az an in
of Providence, tending to quiet the
sectional agitations which threaten the peace of
the country, burying all animosties in the grave
Of the hero-President. Mr. Webster alluded to
it in his remarks, by saying that great wss1
the foss if the blessings Of quiet and good feeling
" ere restored to the country, the price was not
too great; and if the spirit of the departed Pre-
would be happy that his death had secured more
for his country than he could have hoped to do
had he lived
Mr. Winthrop expressed the idea that the death
of the President interpositfon of Provi-
tence for the good of the country. Mr. Hilliard
caught at the idea and reiterated it!
These the days of 6 strange eventfuI
,cenes,' and venture to say, that never be-
fore did the leaders of political party declare
that the death Of their chief was the salvation
Of their country.
Gen Harrison was President just one mouth
Gen. Taylor one year, four months, and days.
Gen. H. died 4th of April, 1871. Gen. Taylor
is the second President who died in Office, and
the FIRST who died during the session Of Con-
yress When President Harrison died, and Mr.
Tyler succeeded to the Presidency, Hon. SamI.
L. Southland, of New Jersey, was President pro
tens of the Senate, and succeeded to the Vice
but he died soon, and Hon. w. P.
Mangum was elected, and received the pay of
Vice President for the time he served. At the
death of Gen. Taylor, Mr. Atchison of Missouri,
was President pro tenn but the Senate went into