Zachary Taylor.

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1846.  Col. Taylor, who was now also a Brigadier General by brevet, and who had won for himself by his gallant conduct in the field the soubriquet of “Old Rough and Ready.”—Mr. Morehead of Kentucky, U.S. Senate, May 26: Cong. Globe, p. 865.

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1846.  Our gallant Taylor, who has received the significant title of “Rough and Ready.”—Mr. Young of Kentucky, House of Repr., June 19: id., p. 956, App.

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1847.  The man who makes assaults upon the military character of General Taylor in this Mexican War will find that he has been biting upon a file. He is “Rough and Ready” for his enemies, either in the U.S., or in Mexico.—Mr. Graham of North Carolina, the same, Jan. 26: id., p. 424, App.

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1847.  “Old Rough and Ready” had gone on with his characteristic perseverance, and had collected one thousand seven hundred pack mules.—Mr. Davis of Kentucky, the same, Feb. 3: id., p. 309, App.

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1848.  Old Rough and Ready is coming to correct all this anti-American policy.—Mr. Stewart of Pa., the same, Jan. 11: id., p. 143.

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1848.  Then a blacksmith, with a smutty nose and a leather apron on, gets up and sings out, “Nine cheers for old Rough and Ready!”—Seba Smith (‘Major Downing’), ‘My Thirty Years Out of the Senate,’ p. 312 (1860).

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1848.  

        An’ ’t aint ve’y offen thet I meet a chap but wut goes in
Fer Rough an’ Ready, fair an’ square, hufs, taller, horns, an’ skin.
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Ole Rough an’ Ready, tu, ’s a Wig, but without bein’ ultry
He ’s like a holsome hayin’ day, thet ’s warm, but is n’t sultry.
Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ No. 9.    

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1849.  The Union could not be dissolved while Henry Clay and Thomas H. Benton were in the Senate, or while old Rough and Ready was at the other end of the Avenue.—Mr. Stanly of North Carolina, House of Repr., Dec. 12: Cong. Globe, p. 19.

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