Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Eulogy on Gen. Zachary Taylor: Late President of the United States
It is almost peculiar to our country that while in the tumult of political strife, invective and seemingly bitter resentments prevail, the resentments are as sungod, and the expression of them is hushed bv the sanctity of death. The press, so active and so criti cal, returns to its quiver the envenomed arrow pre pared for ?ight, and sheathes the sword sharpened for assault. Ilessed would be the sorrow that should keep them there! Rival politicians in the national legislature vie with each other in terms of eulogy. State legislatures, ordinarily opposed in political sen timent, unanimously adept resolutions of fen eiit praise. Justice, which may have been withheld from living merit, is freely offered, when the voice of honor and the voice of shame are alike unable to provoke the silent dust, or soothe the dull cold ear of death.
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