Excerpt from Taylor and His Generals: A Biography of Major-General Zachary Taylor
There probably has never been, in the course of our brief history as a nation, a time of such intense general excitement, as that immediately preceding the first engagement between the Americans and the Mexicans in the present war. We have perhaps had on other occasions excitements of a local character equally intense. But in this instance the feeling was of the most pervading kind, reaching every part of the great republic. We have perhaps had other causes that have agitated more deeply and gravely the foundations of society; but here, the lack of depth to the general feeling seemed to be compensated by its intensity. It was not so much the deep and distant upheavings of the earthquake, as the wild and frightful sweep of the hurricane. It was as if the whole American people had been suddenly changed into one mass, as if the whole twenty millions had become one man, and stood with listening ear to hear the first sound that should be borne upon the southern breeze. It was not unlike the human body, when a painful surgical operation is about to be performed on some one point. Every other part or limb is alive with apprehension. The whole body seems to live in that one spot where the point of he knife is about to enter. So was it here.
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