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

    By William Eleazar Barton and Abraham Lincoln

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    Release dateFeb 1, 2009
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      The Life and Public Service of General Zachary Taylor - William Eleazar Barton

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      Zachary Taylor: An Address, by Abraham Lincoln

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

      Author: Abraham Lincoln

      Editor: William Eleazar Barton

      Release Date: September 20, 2007 [EBook #22681]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR ***

      Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was

      produced from scanned images of public domain material

      from the Google Print project.)

      NOTE

      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

      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

      ABRAHAM LINCOLN

      BOSTON AND NEW YORK

      HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

      The Riverside Press Cambridge

      1922

      COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY WILLIAM R. BARTON

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      INTRODUCTION

      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.

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