The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-09-09
Euiogy on Gen. Zachary Taylor,

EuIogy on Gen. Zachary Taylor
DELIVERED RorGE, July %, 1S o. ELAN,
10 every age of the world and every cline whether Of
civilized savage men, few have apyearel blessed By
ture with commanding address, endowed with attractive
order oi mind possessing moral and ply courage that
inspired admiration with strength Of enduraGGe and dec
Of character that emueny qualified Them for the great ur-
Of life, and fitted them for the discharge Of those duties
beneficial their kind and agcsGch commanding armies
deherng in council and representing their country in the
muadOus relations that spnng the great family cf
nations.
The master spirit that appears among such men, whether
acuaed by ambition for selEaggrandzemen love for his
kind and generation seeks and readily the goal his
aspirat The Of mankind slow confer honor
and confidence, unless those who have sgnaized them.
selves IN the field OF battle IN the council OF State,
other contributes in filing the of their coun.
rys glory THESE evidences Of seldom lose their
| reward.
The right rule and command being once conferred it
becomes the duty OF the obey. And unless there
organic law binding the well the many
OF inOrdnate amb ton and plausible address, i'm
percepuby draw all pow er from the himself when
willing obedience gives Dace 10 absolute Consrant, and
hero and ends his the despol and the tyan
Few have been found who voluntarily resigned power
obtained, enquisted it ALL unless in obedience
organic law which but few nations have established for
| the preservation and protection OF equal rights
EmperO and kings when confirmed, claim the right
which necessity often comedies perpeuae their power in
The descendants their blood mOug the ancients as
taught IN heather mythology such died. They
the fines Of human life by celestial mes
-enEer Civ drink 1t amDfCs.a clothed with immortality
| and their recorded in heaven.
Such eryIe obedie from fellow man-such
prosalon OF mans Givne image before fellow mortal
such sacr gious pola the claim immunity for
kings repugnant the order heaven the economy
established by the only eat Potenlaehe King OF Kings
The establishment of hereditary and the ordination
kings earth device Of mans choosing. never
| emanated from the divine J1mand.
When the children Of Israel be fascinated and dazz
with the glare and peuGor of th and kings which flashed
them from the surrounding nations until their
souls los the image OF the divine and they mpouuued
for king, they informed bY divine inspiration that
Eng would take their and point them himself for
his charots, and be horsemen and shall run before
his chaot- Their aughers be confecones and to be
cooks, and to be bakers. That he would take and
vineyards and give them to his That lie would
take the tenth OF all their subst That they would
because Of the king which they shall have chosen.
and G'l would not hear them. They said Nay but we
| i0N have king U.S.
The OF the universe ha wing created after his
image endo we'd them all will equal naneable rights
having light and darkness set beoH' them with viii free
choose the good Or the ev-God yielded to their importantly
and granted his chosen people kEE. But, said va,
done in his wrath.
The divine Truth having bsln stampel on the hearts OF all
men, that governments receive their Just force from willing
obedience and the OF the oycrnei God cast on his
chosen people the responsibility of their in asking for
KING, with the adm0n0n to remember what things had
been done for Them. That he would still teach them the good
and right but, If they wOuId do wckedy they sEor ID
| be destroy ed, both they and their king.
God having yielded to his chosen people point of such
momenous importance their political and social happiness
established the only rule both for king and peOpe
strict obedience to law rule OF duty Both the king and
people eOned obey the law of Oder 1cisdom and
justice, which alone ut the eternal fitness of things
In ne strict rule of action should be established never to
he given departed from by king people. uty the
cboie If duty and nothing less than dy agas to be the
| IF their counsel
To the Israeites king given but in mercy to the
weakness and folly of degenerate man. GOD placed their first
ruler under ohe ence to divine command and for the
violation thereof he lost his ie When he attempted to
apOgize for his GsobeeuCe, he told: to obey is bet
ter than sacrifice, and hearken than the fat of rams
That the kings o Israel might arogate to themselves
the immunity of immortality taught by the heathens the
second ruler mads to know and feel that As for man
his days grass flower the field SO he fouri.heb
For the wind passeth over 1t and gone the place
thereof knows it mOre.' The third king the wse that
ever lived, learned from wisdom that As it happeneh to
the fool it happens even 10 me, and how deh the wise
| man? US the oo.''
Chadea's proud king, The falnesl of hi, power whilst
hOdrg in subsection the chosen people of God no refused
to be governed by that form OF which conferred
equal rights and by dsobedienCe lost their king and their
country and when Chadea king thought in The vanity of
his heart, that the word ruled by his WISDOM he i'm.
perousy asked Is this tc Babylon, that have
built for the house of the kingdom by the mig my power
and for the honor of my majesty 2''
TO silence his vain bOastns, and instructive lesson TO
all earthly rulers who be disposed boast Of their
power, While the word in his mouth, there fell
from heaven saying, Oh king Eehuchainezzar
s sloken thy kiuguUm departed from hsei And as
more certain evidence of the impotence Of kings the
hour he driven from to eat the oxen,
and his body with the dews of heaven, till his hair
like eagles feathers and his nails like birds claws.
Doubtless the design Of the of the universe
mpart by this example and this might Of his power and
glory Of his maiesty, the solemn truth Tor every age
and cline know, That the most higth rueh in the king
dom Of men and gveh them to whomsoever he will. And
they who fear God and work Righteousness alone accept
| able with him..
In this our day, this great republic, founded after the
divine will in 0rer csdoa and jastice-and it claims