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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 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

The Pre-Adamite Epoch: its Upheavals and Disruptions in
          America, and the red-hot diplomatic Stones, Fauchet and
          Adet, ejected from France upon us.—The new French
          Acrostics; and the Attempts by our Commissioners and
          Congress to solve them.—Gold-mounted Spectacles, offered
          us by France; and our Inability to see our Interest or
          Duty through them.—Why and when the Keel of the American
          Navy was laid.—Of the Alien and Sedition Laws; why
          passed and how passed by.—General Washington and the
          Gallic Cock; a Crow never crowed out.—Napoleon’s Tour in
          Egypt and Palestine described; and its Results on the
          Treaty of Peace deduced.—Of the Office and Offices of
          Consul.—A Review and new View of our Difficulties with
          France from 1790 to 1800.—What a Pitt England fell
          into.—The City of Washington as a Geographical
          Study.—About Mississippi, Alabama, and the French Growth
          of Mobile.—The Territorial Condition illustrated.—The
          Introduction of Vaccine and other _Virus_.—Why some
          Things first break out in Boston.—State of Parties in
          1801.—Why the first Adams was banished from the
          Presidential Eden; and the Flaming Swords which
          prevented his Return.


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        The Cereals and Serials of the last Century.—Hares caught
          before cooked.—Useless Indians put under Ground.—Human
          Bones the Phosphates of History.—The Statecraft of
          Washington, Jefferson, and Others.—The Automatic
          Workings of Governments exposed.—What small Brains
          rule.—Description of our Government Machine.—Its Merits
          and Demerits.—The Disadvantages of frequent Changes of
          official Workmen.—How the Machine-Oil is stolen.—The
          Inventions of the Eighteenth Cycle of Time.—An American
          Noah inebriated by the Cotton-Gin.—How Ham laughed and
          how Japhet put a Blanket over the Patriarch.—The Growth
          of Commerce.—The Notions which Importations put in and
          on the Heads of the Young People.—Paris supplies the
          Mistakes of Nature.—Of Dress.—Hoops, Head-Gear, Coats,
          Vests, Tights, etc., descanted upon.—Improvements in
          Roads and Means of Transit.—The Journey from New York to
          Boston in 1732.—The Road-Maker and Vehicle-Propeller as
          Leaders of Civilization.—The great Invention now
          needed.—The Populations of New York and Boston in
          1700.—Description of the Former in that Year by an
          English Traveller.—Slave-Market in New York in
          1711.—Manufactures and their Growth.—The Habits of the
          Period described.—Improvements in Morals, and wherein.—A
          general Review of American Literature and Book-Making

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