Address Delivered by Request of the Selectmen, of the Town of St. Albans

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Excerpt from Address Delivered by Request of the Selectmen, of the Town of St. Albans: Friday, August 2, 1850, of the Death of General Zachary Taylor, Late President of the United States My Friends and Fellow-citizens: The respected officers to whom you have committed the civil authority of your town, have called you together this day, to mark an occurrence of rare and peculiar interest. "Regarding it as fit that there be some public demonstration of the feelings of this community respecting the national calamity occasioned by the death of General Zachary Taylor, late President of the United States, " they have invited you to manifest your sympathy on what they have most truly called "an afflicting dispensation, " and have assigned to me the duty of expressing the sentiments appropriate to an event, which is invested with no ordinary importance and solemnity. In accepting the office, however, thus kindly conferred, you will permit me to premise, that I have not been influenced by any confidence in my powers to do justice to the occasion. I see around me many, whose qualifications for such a duty seem far superior to my own. The fervid eloquence of the patriot, the deep knowledge of the practised politician, the high admiration of military renown, would all find ample scope in the subject assigned to me. 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.