...from the Capitol to the Whit* House. " I never saw such a crowd," wrote Daniel Webster to a friend. " Persons have come five hundred miles to see General...the country is rescued from some dreadful danger." Hunters of Kentucky and Indian fighters of Tennessee, with sturdy frontiersmen from the Northwest,...

...the North and overwhelmed it." Webster, describing the same event, said, "I never saw such a crowd before. Persons have come five hundred miles to see...the country is rescued from some dreadful danger." Again a combination of Southern and Western states has overwhelmed the North, and the success of the...

...Webster, writing a letter to a friend, hit off the event by saying: "I never saw such a crowd. People have come five hundred miles to see General Jackson, and they really seem to think the country is rescued from some dreadful danger." The buckskin shirts of Kentucky settlers and the...

...have had the Inauguration," Webster duly reported. "A monstrous crowd of people is in the city . . . and they really seem to think that the country is rescued from some dreadful danger." Had Webster's relation stopped reading his letter with that sentence, she might have assumed that the...

...saw any thing like it before," Webster exclaimed. "Persons have come 500 miles to see Genl Jackson; & they really seem to think that the Country is rescued from some dreadful danger." Several newspapers estimated the crowd in excess of twenty thousand. "The show," as Webster called...

...Webster said of the mass of humanity that overran the capital for Jackson's March 4, 1829, inauguration. "Persons have come five hundred miles to see General...Jackson, and they really seem to think that the country has been rescued from some dreadful danger." The federal city had been packed for days. Every bed in...

...converged on Washington to meet their hero and enjoy the White House festivities. Daniel Webster wrote, "Persons have come five hundred miles to see General...Jackson, and they really seem to think that the country has been rescued from some dreadful danger."3 These were ordinary people, who traveled on foot, in...

...people's inaugural, a spontaneous populist outpouring for a popular president. Daniel Webster observed: "Persons have come five hundred miles to see General...Jackson, and they really seem to think that the country has been rescued from some dreadful danger." Then it changed. Jackson's first inauguration may have...

...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...the country is rescued from some dreadful danger." Webster's Priv. Corresp., I, p. 473. * "After this ceremony [the inauguration] was over, the president...

...of excited people that came to Washington to witness the inauguration of Andrew Jackson : " People have come five hundred miles to see General Jackson,...that the country is rescued from some dreadful danger !" It would be amusing now, if it were not significant of possible peril in the future, to observe...