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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

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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 cooeperated 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

[Illustration]

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 s