. Portrait and biographical album of Isabella County, Mich . ought it all wrong. In the prosecutionof this war, we expended twenty thousand lives andmore than a hundred million of dollars. Of thismoney fifteen millions were paid to Mexico. On the 3d of March, 1849, Mr. Polk retired fromoffice, having served one term. The next day wasSunday. On the 5th, Gen. Taylor was inauguratedas his successor Mr Polk rode to the Capitol in thesame carriage with Gen. Taylor; and the same even-ing, with Mrs. Polk, he commenced his return toTennessee. He was then but fifty-four years of had ever been st

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. Portrait and biographical album of Isabella County, Mich . ought it all wrong. In the prosecutionof this war, we expended twenty thousand lives andmore than a hundred million of dollars. Of thismoney fifteen millions were paid to Mexico. On the 3d of March, 1849, Mr. Polk retired fromoffice, having served one term. The next day wasSunday. On the 5th, Gen. Taylor was inauguratedas his successor Mr Polk rode to the Capitol in thesame carriage with Gen. Taylor; and the same even-ing, with Mrs. Polk, he commenced his return toTennessee. He was then but fifty-four years of had ever been strictly temperate in all his habits,and his health was good. Witii an ample fortune,a choice library, a cultivated mind, and domestic tiesof the dearest nature, it seemed as though long yearsof tranquility and happiness were before him. But thecholera—that fearful scourge—was then sweeping upthe Valley of the Mississippi. This he contracted,and died on the 15th of June, 1849, in the fifty-fourthyear of his age, greatly mourned by his countrymen. I I (Z^.

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