PERSONAL APPEARANCE AND CHARACTER--HIS BROAD VIEWS--FAITH AND CONFIDENCE IN GOD--DEVOTION TO HIS RELIGION--MORAL LIFE ABOVE SUSPICION--LOVE OF LIBERTY--"I WOULD NOT BE A SLAVE TO GOD!"--THE RICHES HE SOUGHT--"I PREFER A FADED COAT TO A FADED REPUTATION"--SKILL AND MAXIMS AS A WORKMAN--POWER AS A WRITER--A POET--A PREACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS--SOCIAL QUALITIES--A GREAT MAN. The story of President Taylor's life is before the reader. We may now consider his character as reflected in that story. In person President Taylor was nearly six feet in height and of fine proportion, that combination which gives activity and strength. His head was large, the face oval and the features large, strong and finely chiseled. The forehead was high and massive, the eyes gray, deep-set, and of a mild, kindly expression, except when aroused, and then they were capable of reflecting all the feelings that moved his soul, whether of indignation, scorn or contempt. The nose was aquiline, the mouth well formed and expressive of firmness, the chin powerful and well rounded. In early life he was of a fair complexion, but with age the face grew swarthy, and even in middle life his abundant hair turned to a silvery whiteness, which but added beauty to his brow and made his appearance venerable. In his manner he was ever affable and polite, easy and gracious, yet princely in dignity. In his intercourse with others he was familiar but never vulgar. He was not a man whom a friend, however intimate, would slap familiarly on the back or turn and twist about when shaking hands; such proceedings with him would have been as much out of place as with the proudest crowned monarch in the presence-chamber. Yet there was no affectation in his deportment, no stiffness; his dignity was that with which nature clothes her noblest sons. It did not spring from self-conceit, or self-sufficiency, or any spirit such as "I am Sir Oracle, and when I speak Let no man ope his lips!" Nor was it studied, or copied, or put on for state occasions. He carried it with him wherever he went--into his own home, into the homes of his friends. It was with him in courts and palaces, among the refined and the titled nobility of this world; he never plucked it off on entering the humblest cottage of the poor. He was to his manners born, and they were suited to the man. In any assembly he would have been a striking figure.