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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 Captain and Officers of the “Seventeen Sisters” which
          put to Sea in a Gale.—Diplomatic Talks.—Difference
          between one’s own Cows gored, and one’s own Bull in a
          Neighbor’s Field stoned, exemplified.—_Cave
          canem._—Bonaparte improves the Code Napoleon.—Executions
          before Trials.—Horace Greeley fights benevolently into
          the World.—Louisiana and her Vivacious Debts taken in;
          what sweetened them.—Witch-Hazel Rods of Clay, Cheves,
          etc., dip to the National Mines of Feeling.—Our Second
          Wrestling-Match with England.—The Hull-sale Surrender of
          Michigan.—Colonel Cass breaks his Sword, and gets an
          Anglo-phobia.—Better Hulls on the Water.—America marries
          the Sea.—A Wasp on a Frolic.—Marine Flirtations and
          Engagements.—The Constitution, an Old Sea-Flirt; her
          rapid Winning and Wooing of the Java.—South Carolina
          loses a Presidential Candidate.—Of the Three Armies
          afield.—Harrison at Tippecanoe and the Thames.—Colonel
          R. M. Johnson’s life-long Chase for Tecumseh’s
          Scalp.—Toronto emptied and filled.—General Brown, a Real
          Man, in Spite of his Name.—General Wade
          Hampton.—Court-Martials, and how they touch off Military
          Charges.—The United States at Sea on Land.—The Hornet on
          a Peacock.—An Immortal Word wrung from a Mortal
          Moment.—Commodore Perry.—General Scott improves the
          Niagara Frontier for Hack-Drivers.—Macdonough charges
          Lake Champlain with Heroic Ingredients.—English Marine
          Parades.—Cotton Breastworks at New Orleans.—Their
          Feminine Adoption.—The Treaty of Peace and its Wonderful
          Omissions.—Costs and Gains of the War.—The Hartford
          Convention and its Equestrian Exploits.—Mr. Calhoun and
          Invisible Ink.


 VIII.  THE ERA OF GOOD-WILL; OR, MONROE’S NESTING. 1817–1825.       396

        Why Byron did not write sometimes.—Application.—Rainbow
          after the Shower.—The Happy Family.—An Inlaid
          Cabinet.—Virginia’s Dower Rights in the Presidency.—Five
          New States.—The Three M’s.—Proof from the Census of 1820
          that Chicago had not started.—The Missouri Compromise.—A
          Good Bridle until used.—Florida bought in 1819.—What we
          got over the Bargain.—The Florida Keys.—The Dry Tortugas
          thrown in.—The Dews fortunately left.—A Cracked Cup in
          the Family Cupboard.—The Monroe Doctrine.


 IX.    TROUBLES BUBBLE; OR, THE SORROWS OF JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
          1825–1829.                                                 399

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