. Bill Nye's history of the United States. sat first, and that we should look up, not down,look out, not in, look forward, not backward, andlend a hand. It was at this moment that Early-to-Bed-andEarly-to-Rise-Black Hawk and Shacknasty James,thinking that this thing had gone far enough,killed General Canby and wounded both and Rev. Dr. Thomas, who had neverhad an unkind thought toward the Modocs in theirlives. The troops then allowed their ill temper to getthe best of them, and asked the Modocs if theymeant anything personal by their action, and,learning that they did, the soldiers
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. sat first, and that we should look up, not down,look out, not in, look forward, not backward, andlend a hand. It was at this moment that Early-to-Bed-andEarly-to-Rise-Black Hawk and Shacknasty James,thinking that this thing had gone far enough,killed General Canby and wounded both and Rev. Dr. Thomas, who had neverhad an unkind thought toward the Modocs in theirlives. The troops then allowed their ill temper to getthe best of them, and asked the Modocs if theymeant anything personal by their action, and,learning that they did, the soldiers did what withthe proper authority they would have done at first,bombarded the children of the forest and mussedup their lava-beds so that they were glad to sur-render. RECONSTRUCTION WITHOUT PAIN. 315 In 1873 a panic occurred after the failure of JayCooke & Co., of Philadelphia, and a money strin-gency followed, the Democrats attributing it agood deal to the party in power, just as cheapRepublicans twenty years later charged the Demo-. TALKING ABOUT THE CENTENNIAL. cratic administration with this same thing. Incon-sistency of this kind keeps good men, like thewriter, out of politics, and turns their attentiontoward the contemplation of a better land. In 1875 Centennial Anniversaries began to ripenand continued to fall off the different branches ofgovernment, according to the history of events so 3l6 HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. graphically set forth in the preceding pages. Theywere duly celebrated by a happy and self-madepeople. The Centennial Exposition at Philadel-phia in 1876 was a marked success in every way,nearly ten millions of people having visited it,who claimed that it was well worth the price ofadmission. Aside from the fact that these ten millions ofpeople had talked about it to millions of folks athome,—or thought they had,—the Exposition wasa boon to every one, and thousands of Americanswent home with a knowledge of their country thatthey had never had before
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