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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

Parallel between Sidney Smith’s Old Razor and J. Q.
          Adams’s Term.—How several Gentlemen, touched by Age,
          reached in Vain after Honors too high.—Who they were;
          and what Acid Grapes the House of Representatives
          snatched from them.—Pamphleteering and Privateering.—An
          Italian Saying.—Description of a Good Statesman spoiled
          in the Mould of a Politician.—An Illustrative
          Anecdote.—Partisan Scales weighing Public Interests.—The
          Weights.—The Depravity of Political Blunders.—History
          _vs._ Party Judgments.


 X.     THE AGE OF HICKORY; OR, JACKSON’S EPOCH. 1829–1837.          402

        Military Men, domesticated to Civil Life, like tamed
          Animals.—General Jackson’s Camp Traits in the White Den
          at Washington.—His Prehensile Habits claw out the Eyes
          of several Measures.—How he foraged on his Political
          Enemies, and turned his Troops of Friends into the
          Public Pastures.—Lord Palmerston’s Remark upon
          Gladstone; and its American Application.—An Insurrection
          among the Household Cabinet Troops.—How the vigorous
          Hickory Club, wielded chivalrously for a Woman, quelled
          it.—The President moves on the Bank, and captures all
          its Fortified Points.—Chicago starts in 1830.—Why it did
          not overtake and annex the United States.—South Carolina
          threatens Nullification, and is threatened.—Mr. Calhoun
          violently promised an elevated Position between two
          Posts. Mr. Clay’s Compromise.—Horace Greeley starts the
          First Daily Paper.—Its untimely End bewailed in
          Verse.—Black Hawk caged and shown around.—Georgia, the
          Cherokees and Supreme Court.—Three Celebrities gained by
          the Seminole War.—Of Arkansas and its Papal Little
          Rock.—Prospects for the Pope when flung from the
          Tarpeian.—An Arkansas Paul preaching in the American
          Athens and Corinth.—Old Hickory and the Nuts left to be
          cracked.


 XL.    THE DUTCH REIGN OF MARTIN VAN BUREN. 1837–1841.              409

        A New-Yorker reaches the White House, and has Hard Fare
          there.—The Disadvantages of Competition.—A Financial
          Earthquake breaks large Amounts of Crockery.—How much
          made a Pile in 1837.—The Sub-Treasury.—The Connection
          between long Messages and Anarchy in
          Finance.—Defalcations in Office.—Why an Old Man’s House
          is easily robbed.—The Phantom of Slavery.—_Extraits de
          l’Afrique._—Principles and Goods sold at a Profit.—A
          Political Trader loses his Capital, and gives up
          Business.


 XII.   THE HARRISON-TYLER TROUPE; HOW IT PLAYED. 1841–1845.         412

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