The "Boy of the period" stirring up the animals' Caricature of financier Jay Gould, left, who attempts to corner the gold market, represented by bulls and bears in a cage. On Black Friday, September 1869, in the midst of scandal, President Ulysses S. Grant, center, restored prevailing gold prices by having the Treasury sell five million dollars in gold which he brings forward in a bag.

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The "Boy of the period" stirring up the animals' Caricature of financier Jay Gould, left, who attempts to corner the gold market, represented by bulls and bears in a cage. On Black Friday, September 1869, in the midst of scandal, President Ulysses S. Grant, center, restored prevailing gold prices by having the Treasury sell five million dollars in gold which he brings forward in a bag.

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