. Bill Nye's history of the United States. dams, was elected President, and served oneterm. He was a bald-headed man, and the coun- 2l6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. try was given four years of unex-ampled prosperity. Yet this ex-perience has not been regarded/ by the people as it should havebeen. Other kinds ofmen have repeatedlybeen elected to thatoffice, only to bringsorrow, war, debt,and bank-failuresupon us. Some-times it would seemto the thinking mindthat, as a people, weneed a few car-loadsof sense in eachschool-district, whereit can be used at amoments was not re-elected,
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. dams, was elected President, and served oneterm. He was a bald-headed man, and the coun- 2l6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. try was given four years of unex-ampled prosperity. Yet this ex-perience has not been regarded/ by the people as it should havebeen. Other kinds ofmen have repeatedlybeen elected to thatoffice, only to bringsorrow, war, debt,and bank-failuresupon us. Some-times it would seemto the thinking mindthat, as a people, weneed a few car-loadsof sense in eachschool-district, whereit can be used at amoments was not re-elected, on account of histariff ideas, which were not popular at the was called The old man eloquent, and it issaid that during his more impassioned passageshis head, which was round and extremely smooth,became flushed, so that, from resembling the cue-ball on the start, as he rose to more lofty heightshis dome of thought looked more like the spotball on a billiard-table. No one else in Congressat that time had succeeded in doine this. o. BALD-HEADED MEN NOT APPRECIATED, THE ADVANCE OF THE REPUBLIC. 217 John Ouincy Adams was succeeded in 1829 byAndrew Jackson, the hero of New was the first to introduce what he calledrotation in office. During the forty years pre-vious there had been but seventy-four removals ;Jackson made seven hundred. This custom hasbeen pretty generally adopted since, giving im-mense satisfaction to those who thrive upon theexcitement of offensive partisanship and theirwives relations, while those who have legitimateemployment and pay taxes support and educatea new official kindergarten with every change ofadministration. The prophet sees in the distance an eight-yearterm for the President, and employment thereafteras charge-daffaires of the United States, withpermission to go beyond the seas. Thus the vastsums of money and rivers of rum used in theintervening campaigns at present will be used forthe relief of the widow and orphan. The ex-Pr
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