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22 to his friends, and kind to his enemies ; while the unspotted purity of his private life threw a charm over his whole char- acter that will forever embalm his memory in the affections of those who can appreciate real goodness and true greatness. "It was my fortune, " says the Senator just quoted, "to have been personally and intimately acquainted with General Taylor for more than five and-twenty years past. My rela- tions with him were of such a character as enabled me to form, I think, a co...rrect estimate of the man, and to appreci- ate, as I did most highly, his many estimable qualities ; and I can say that, in all the relations of life, he so bore himself as to command the respect of his acquaintances, the ardent regard of his friends, and the devoted attachment of his coun- trymen. As a man, he was surpassed by no one in honesty of purpose. He was without guile. " Although the conflicts with the mother country had pas- ed, and peace with her had been restored, a great work re- mained to be performed ; and the conducting of the nation safely through the ardent youth of its Independence — through all the dangers incident to the first possession of freedom, as exhibited by individuals and states, and the concentrating all the jarring elements of political life, now in active commo- tion, into one harmonious Union, were a work hardly infe- rior, either in its importance or its difficulties, to the accom- plishment of that Independence.
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