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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present — John Shaqi

The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the presentSherwood, John D.

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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present

Name: The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present
Author: Sherwood, John D.

Sherwood, John D.

United States -- History -- Humor

How the Thirteen Colonial Children crept into their New
          Bed.—The Upholstering described.—Why Rhode Island was
          last in.—Who tucked her up.—Washington as
          Superintendent, and John Adams as First Assistant.—The
          Family low in Credit.—Amount of their Indebtedness
          compared with ours.—Washington’s Inaugural.—His
          Exemption from Office Beggars, Committees, Pugilistic M.
          C.s, boring Place-Seekers, enterprising Donors,
          etc.—Washington as a Spirit.—His Capacity to select a
          Cabinet.—Who they were.—Of Henry Knox.—The Chief Justice
          and Attorney-General.—Amendments to a perfect
          Constitution.—The Supreme Court as a sound, seaworthy
          Tribunal.—Why States cannot be sued by Individuals.—How
          Governments get around paying Interest on
          Principle.—Streaks of the Millennium.—Of the Public
          Debt.—Discrimination among Creditors.—Misfortune of
          being a Cisatlantic Holder of American Bonds.—Alexander
          Hamilton’s Notions.—Washington’s Receptions and
          Dinner-Parties.—The Political Color of the President’s
          Silver Spoons and Window Curtains.—The Honeymoon of the
          new Government disturbed.—Ganderous Long-bills splash
          Washington.—The French Revolution and its
          Conundrums.—How answered by Washington and the Federals;
          how by Jefferson and the Anti-Federals.—The Census Act
          procures Names without Owners.—The Naturalization Laws
          and their Pat-riot products.—Polls and Polling-Places.—A
          Sinking Fund that did not sink.—How Vermont made the
          Thirteen States old.—An Indian War.—Cincinnati
          begins.—Kentucky starts.—Mistakes about
          Bourbon.—Washington’s second Term.—What Genet did, and
          how he was done for.—Helpful Americans.—The Whiskey
          Rebellion of 1794.—The Year of Treaties; how they
          enlarged while they tied us.—Tennessee the Sixteenth
          State.—Nashville gets warm.—Washington’s Farewell, and
          its cheap Imitations.—The Shades of Office.—Who crept in
          and who stepped into the Sunshine.


 III.   OLD FAMILY PORTRAITS                                         340

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The comic history of the United States, from a period prior to the discovery of America to times long subsequent to the present

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