..."To-day we hare had the inauguration. A monstrous crowd of people is in the city. I never saw anything like it before. Persons have come five hundred miles...seem to think that the country is rescued from some frightful danger." It is difficult now to see what this peril was supposed to be; but we know that...

...I never saw such a crowd before," Webster wrote from the capital in the closing days of February. " Persons have come five hundred miles to see General...the country is rescued from some dreadful danger." They surged through the streets shouting " Hurrah for Jackson," and they swarmed about Gadsby's, where...

...brow." 1 "Persons have come five hundred miles (with no railways!) to see Jackson," wrote Webster, "and they really seem to think that the country is rescued from some dreadful danger." 2 The scenes which followed the ceremony of the taking of the oath by the new President were a sort...

...brow." * "Persons have come five hundred miles (with no railways!) to see Jackson," wrote Webster, "and they really seem to think that the country is rescued from some dreadful danger."2 The scenes which followed the ceremony of the taking of the oath by the new President were...

...pleasure as you bestow, you will have no reason to regret it. Your presence with my children, through the winter, has relieved me from a pressing weight of...degree. What it says about reform in office may be either a prelude to a general change in office, or a mere sop to soothe the hunger, without satisfying...

...scenes are not picturesque only, but are also emblematic. 1 Webster wrote to his sister on that day: " A monstrous crowd of people is in the city. I never...the country is rescued from some dreadful danger." 2 It was evident, however, that they did not come solely to rejoice in this salvation. An office-seeking...

...to be fed without a miracle, and all hungry for office. "I never saw such a crowd before," he added. "Persons have come five hundred miles to see General...the country is rescued from some dreadful danger." They surged through the streets shouting, "Hurrah for Jackson!" They swarmed about Gadsby's tavern,...

..."To-day we have had the inauguration. A monstrous crowd of people is in the city. I never saw anything like it before. Persons have come five hundred miles...seem to think that the country is rescued from some frightful danger." It is difficult now to see what this peril was supposed to be; but we know that...

..."To-day we have had the inauguration. A monstrous crowd of people is in the city. I never saw anything like it before. Persons have come five hundred miles...seem to think that the country is rescued from some frightful danger." It is difficult now to see what this peril was supposed to be ; but we know that...

...possession of it. "Persons have come five hundred miles (with no railways !) to see Jackson," wrote Webster, "and they really seem to think that the country is rescued from some dreadful danger." 12. The vast popular army which marched tri- Estabiishumphantly through the streets of Washington dispersed...