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York, and all the principal cities of the Union, 

 attended with great expense. I was surprised to see 

 so intelligent a people as the Americans engage in so 

 foolish and meaningless a display to 



" Mimic sorrow, when the heart's not sad." 



General Taylor was a slave-holder, and is said to 

 have had upwards of three hundred slaves ; he ap~ 

 peared, however, opposed to the extension of Slavery, 

 to the compromise of Messrs. Clay, Foote, Webster, 

 and others, and to the encroachment of Texas on 

 New Mexico. 



The following is a brief sketch of the principal 

 events in the life of the deceased President, and also 

 of the Hon. Millard Fillmore, now President of the 

 United States : — 



General Zachary Taylor was born in Orange 

 County, Virginia, in 1790. His father, Colonel 

 Taylor, served in the war of the Revolution, and in 

 1790 emigrated from Virginia to Kentucky, where 

 he bore a conspicuous part in the labors and struggles 

 of the early settlers. 



In May, 1808, Zachary Taylor was commissioned 

 as a Lieutenant in the 7th Regiment of U. S. In 

 fantry. In 1812 he was made Captain, and placed in 



