The Life and Public Service of General Zachary Taylor: An Address E-Book

Abraham Lincoln

• Herausgeber: Krill Press
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 39

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) is one of the most famous Americans in history and one of the country’s most revered presidents. Schoolchildren can recite the life story of Lincoln, the “Westerner” who educated himself and became a self made man, rising from lawyer to leader of the new Republican Party before becoming the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln successfully navigated the Union through the Civil War but didn’t live to witness his own accomplishment, becoming the first president assassinated when he was killed at Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth.

As impressive as his presidency was, one of his most lasting legacies was his writing. In addition to masterful writing for everything from orders to his generals and condolences to the aggrieved Mrs. Bixby, his Second Inaugural Address and Gettysburg Address are considered masterpieces that rate among the greatest writings in American history. Perhaps Lincoln’s most impressive feat is that he was able to convey so much with so few words; after famous orator Edward Everett spoke for hours at Gettysburg, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address only took a few minutes.

In the generation after the Civil War, Lincoln became an American deity and one of the most written about men in history. Understandably, all of his writings and papers were intently scoured and collected, and they’ve been preserved in seven volumes of Papers and Writings . 

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THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICE OF GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR: AN ADDRESS

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Abraham Lincoln

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICE OF: GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR

THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICE OF: GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR: AN ADDRESS BY

INTRODUCTION

EULOGY

MORTALITY: By WILLIAM KNOX

THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICE OF: GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR: EULOGY

The Life and Public Service of General Zachary Taylor: An Address

By

Abraham Lincoln

The Life and Public Service of General Zachary Taylor: An Address

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AFTER LYING BURIED FOR ALMOST three quarters of a century in the columns of a single newspaper, unknown even to Lincoln specialists, this eulogy on President Zachary Taylor was discovered by sheer accident. It was then brought to the attention of Rev. William E. Barton, D.D., of Chicago, who has long been an ardent student of Abraham Lincoln and has published several books about him. By diligent searching he was able to gather the many details which he has embodied in his Introduction to the eulogy, and the publishers have gladly coöperated with him for the preservation of all the material in a worthy and attractive form.

4 Park Street, Boston

September 1, 1922

THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICE OF: GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR

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THIS EDITION IS LIMITED TO FOUR HUNDRED AND

THIRTY-FIVE COPIES, PRINTED AT THE RIVERSIDE

PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A., OF WHICH FOUR HUNDRED

ARE FOR SALE. THIS IS NUMBER [Handwritten: 273]

THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICE OF: GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR: AN ADDRESS BY

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BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

The Riverside Press Cambridge

1922

COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY WILLIAM R. BARTON

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

INTRODUCTION

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THE DISCOVERY OF AN UNKNOWN address by Abraham Lincoln is an event of literary and historical significance. Various attempts have been made to recover his “Lost Speech,” delivered in Bloomington, in 1856. Henry C. Whitney undertook to reconstruct it from notes and memory, with a result which has been approved by some who heard it, while others, including a considerable group who gathered in Bloomington to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of its original delivery and of the event which called it forth, declared their conviction that “Abraham Lincoln’s ‘Lost Speech’ is still lost.” So far as I am aware no one now living remembers to have heard Lincoln’s address on the death of President Zachary Taylor. Lincoln’s oration on the death of Henry Clay is well known, and his speech commemorative of his friend, Benjamin Ferguson, also is of record. His eulogy on President Zachary Taylor, however, appears to have been wholly overlooked by Lincoln’s biographers and by the compilers of various editions of his works. Nicolay and Hay make no allusion to it, either in their “Life” of Lincoln or in their painstaking compilations of his writings and speeches. I have found but one reference to it, that in Whitney’s “Life on the Circuit with Lincoln.”

Lovers of Lincoln are to be congratulated upon this discovery, of which some account is to be given in this introduction. The address was delivered in the City Hall in Chicago on Thursday afternoon, July 25, 1850. It was printed in one Chicago paper. It was set up from Lincoln’s original manuscript, furnished for the purpose.