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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

Buchanan went March 4, 1861.


 XVIII. OUR NEWER NATIONAL ALBUM                                     464

        The Second Generation of our Great Men nearer in Time but
          not in Affection.—Several sufficient Reasons
          therefor.—Ingenious Biographers confusing our Verdicts
          over old Offenders.—A Latin Quotation to prove an
          Original Remark.—Why we should not stick to old
          Opinions.—Sketches of Clay, Calhoun, and
          Webster.—Parallels do not always run at equal
          Distances.—Three Fates.—Original Anecdote of Webster.—Of
          Lewis Cass and Thomas H. Benton.—Why double-chinned
          Persons are satisfactory.—The Plutocrats Girard and
          Astor; how they made Fortunes, and how much.—John
          Marshall as a Judge, and John Trumbull as a
          Painter.—Albert Gallatin skims American Cream.—Rembrandt
          Peale and Washington Allston described.—Why Felix
          Grundy, S. S. Prentiss, J. J. Crittenden, Samuel
          Houston, D. D. Tompkins, and Others, were like Shoots
          grafted upon hardy Native Stocks.—The Senate illuminated
          by J. M. Berrian, S. L. Southard, W. C. Preston, etc.,
          Legaré, and Butler.—A full-length Portrait of Winfield
          Scott.—Irving delineated.—Drake, Halleck, and
          Paulding.—Fenimore Cooper descanted upon.—Science
          illustrated by Silliman, Hare, and Rush.—Descriptions of
          Prescott, Mrs. Sedgwick, Greenough, and Hawthorne.—How
          well the Second Set persuaded the Eighteenth Century
          over into the Nineteenth.


 XIX.   THE WAR OF IDEAS AND MUSKETS; OR, LINCOLN’S
          ADMINISTRATION. 1861–1865.                                 480

                           IN THREE DIVISIONS.

                             DIVISION FIRST.

     COTTON VEILS HIDE THE UNION. MARCH 4, 1861, TO JANUARY 1, 1862.

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