| Thursday, July 25, 1850.Chicago, IL. | Lincoln is in Chicago, where he
delivers a eulogy for President Zachary Taylor, who died on July 9. Lincoln
emphasizes Taylor's military career and remarks, "Gen. Taylor's battles were
not distinguished for brilliant military manoeuvers; but in all, he seems
rather to have conquered by the exercise of a sober and steady judgment,
coupled with a dogged incapacity to understand that defeat was possible. . . . In
Gen. Taylor's general public relation to his country, what will strongly
impress a close observer, was his unostentatious, self-sacrificing, long
enduring devotion to his duty." Eulogy
on Zachary Taylor, 25 July 1850, CW, 2:83-90. |