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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 contrasted Beginning and End of the Half-Century.—What
          America brought to the New-Year’s Day of 1850 in the
          Raw, and what for the Grill of more refined
          Tastes.—Historical Stews, and their Foreign and Domestic
          Sauces.—What they were.—Attempts at, and Failures in,
          Insurrections in America.—Mechanical Inventions of the
          Half-Century; Steamboats, Telegraphs, Reapers,
          Sewing-Machines, etc.—Their Advantages.—Vestments and
          Investments.—Of Ether.—How Populations drifted to
          Cities.—Chicago bibulous and dropsical.—Public Men and
          their Versatile Principles.—Newspapers and their
          unfulfilled Prophecies.—Plutocracy.—Fashions and their
          Constancy to Change.—The Stormy Petrels of Commercial
          Disasters.—How Owners turn Wreckers.—Profits out of
          Losses.—Of Merchant Salvors.—The Effects of Gold
          Discoveries in California on Labor, Ladies’ Heads and
          Hearts.—Auriferous Marriages.—The Spite of Midas against
          Children.—Ecclesiastical Gardens in America.—The new
          Mormon Shrub of the _Genus Polygamous_.—Architectural
          Improvements.—American Houses and their
          Sites.—Farmsteads; their Better Complexion.—The Crops
          from the National Farms, the Sea and Land, in 1850.—Of
          American Literature, Science, Natural History, The
          Philosophies and other Branches of Knowledge, and their
          Cultivators, through the Half-Century.—Summary of the
          Bill of Fare for the Repast on the Half-Shell.—Its
          Character and Critics.


 XV.    THE BEGINNING OF STRIFE; OR, THE TAYLOR AND FILLMORE
          WEBBING. 1849–1853.                                        439

        The Young Polka Dancer becomes Floor Manager.—The large
          Apples of Discord emptied on the Floor of Congress.—What
          they were; and the Pacific Trees from which they
          fell.—Of California, New Mexico, and Deseret.—General
          Taylor’s Death, and Mr. Fillmore’s suave Manners and
          smooth Appeals.—Wendell Phillips and J. Davis.—Political
          Nurses and Anodynes.—Kossuth and his Short
          Catechism.—How it did not take, and how he did.—A large
          Piece of Japanned Ware.—Deaths of Clay and Webster.—The
          Autumn Glory which they shed on a Stormy Season.


 XVI.   THE UNION PIERCED; OR, PIERCE’S TURN. 1853–1857.             443

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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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