Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . tance,loaded as tliey were and with percussioncaps, that the pistols missed fire. In viewof this latter fact, Mr. Key, the districtattorney, and General Hunter, the marshalof the district, l
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . tance,loaded as tliey were and with percussioncaps, that the pistols missed fire. In viewof this latter fact, Mr. Key, the districtattorney, and General Hunter, the marshalof the district, lost no time in testing theactual condition of the weapons, the pistolstill loaded being first tried, by putting onanother cap. The tube of this pistolshowed the powder at its summit. Gen-eral Huntex, by inclining the pistol, threwout a few grains of the powder in hishand. They took from a box of caps found each of the pistols, several times, withouttaking any other means of forcing thepowder into the tubes than that of ram-ming home small paper wads on thecharges. The discharge of the weaponstook effect on every trial. So great wasthe excitement produced by the affair,that some of the most eminent politicalopponents of the president, including suchmen as Clay, Calhoun, Poindexter, White,and others, were, in the frenzy of themoment, suspected of having conspired ina plot to get rid of the president!. ;MlTEU ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JACKSON. in Lawrences shop without selecting it,one, which was placed upon the tube. OnMajor Donelson firing it, the ball passedthrough an inch plank, at a distance ofabout five or six yards, and lodged, nearlyburied, in the opposite side of the enclos-ure, six or seven yards distant. Theythen loaded with a small quantity of thepowder found in the prisoners possession, It was ascertained that, some time pre-vious, Lawrence had formed an attachmentto a young ladj, and frequently told hissister that he would by his industry soonbe enabled to buy
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