An Address, Delivered by Request of the Students of Dartmouth College, at Hanover, N. H., Sept, 5, 1850: On the Occasion of the Death of Gen. Z. Taylo

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Excerpt from An Address, Delivered by Request of the Students of Dartmouth College, at Hanover, N. H., Sept, 5, 1850: On the Occasion of the Death of Gen. Z. Taylor, Late President of the United States The sentiment of Pericles, uttered in commemoration of the virtues of his countrymen who fell during the first year of the Peloponnesian war, finds a warm response in every generous heart. "Those men, " said he, "who have sacrificed their lives for the public good, have every one of them received a praise that will never decay, a sepulchre that will always be most illustrious - not that in which their bones lie mouldering, but that in which their fame is preserved to be, on every occasion, when honor is associated with word or deed, eternally remembered. This whole earth is the sepulchre of illustrious men, nor is it the inscriptions on the columns of their native soil alone that show their merit, but the memorial of them better than all inscriptions in every foreign nation, reposited more durably in universal remembrance than on their tombs." Such honor would the peerless orator of Athens confer upon the humblest patriot who died in his country's defence, "though he might be inferior to others in every virtue but that of valor, " and, who will presume to question the correctness of his position or the justice of the tribute which he awards? We are so constituted that we cannot but admire human greatness, whether it be the product of the head, the heart, or the hands. We pay instinctive homage to superiority of intellect, we reverence the exhibition of noble and generous affections, we admire skill and dexterity in works of art. The mightiest heroes of Grecian story once trembled beneath the rod of the gymnast, admired the feats of the athlete and coveted more eagerly the honors of the palæstra and the hippodrome, than the glories of the tented field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.