. Bill Nye's history of the United States. e as at present, one hundred million dollarswere lost in sixty days in this way. The government had required the payments forpublic lands to be made in coin, and so the Treas-ury had plenty of gold and silver, while businesshad nothing to work with. Speculation also had MORE DIFFICULTIES STRAIGHTENED OUT. 223 made a good many snobs who had sent their goldand silver abroad for foreign luxuries, also somepaupers who could not do so. When a man madesome money from the sale of rural lots he had hishats made abroad, and his wife had her dressesfitted in Pa
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. e as at present, one hundred million dollarswere lost in sixty days in this way. The government had required the payments forpublic lands to be made in coin, and so the Treas-ury had plenty of gold and silver, while businesshad nothing to work with. Speculation also had MORE DIFFICULTIES STRAIGHTENED OUT. 223 made a good many snobs who had sent their goldand silver abroad for foreign luxuries, also somepaupers who could not do so. When a man madesome money from the sale of rural lots he had hishats made abroad, and his wife had her dressesfitted in Paris at great expense. Confidence wasdestroyed, and the air was heavy with failures andapprehension of more failures to come. The Canadians rebelled against England, andmany of our people wanted to unite with Canadaagainst the mother-country, but the police wouldnot permit them to do so. General Scott wassent to the frontier to keep our people from aidingthe Canadians. There was trouble in theNortheast over theboundary betweenMaine and New. LORD ASHBITRTON AND DANIEL WEBSTER. 224 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. Brunswick, but it was settled by the commis-sioners, Daniel Webster and Lord was a smart man and a good extempo-raneous speaker. Van Buren failed of a re-election, as the peopledid not fully endorse his administration. Admin-istrations are not generally endorsed where thepeople are unable to get over six pounds of sugarfor a dollar. General Harrison, who followed in 1841, diedsoon after choosing his Cabinet, and his Vice-President, John Tyler, elected as a Whig, pro-ceeded to act as President, but not as a WhigfPresident should. His party passed a bill estab-lishing the United States Bank, but Tyler vetoedit, and the men who elected him wished they hadbeen as dead as Rameses was at the time. Dorrs justly celebrated rebellion in RhodeIsland was an outbreak resulting from restrictingthe right of suffrage to those who owned prop-erty. A new Constitution was a
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