. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. amongst the States, paper currency hadtaken the place of coin, and a universal panic affected thecountry. Specie payments had been entirely suspended,bank after bank and firm after firm had collapsed, valueswere shrinking daily, and commerce and industries wereparalyzed. The Sub-Treasury Bill sought to restore confi-dence and relieve the distress, but it was impossible to atonce overcome the disaster. The Florida war still continued, but Gen. Zachary Taylor,a soldier of the true Jackson type, indefatigab
. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. amongst the States, paper currency hadtaken the place of coin, and a universal panic affected thecountry. Specie payments had been entirely suspended,bank after bank and firm after firm had collapsed, valueswere shrinking daily, and commerce and industries wereparalyzed. The Sub-Treasury Bill sought to restore confi-dence and relieve the distress, but it was impossible to atonce overcome the disaster. The Florida war still continued, but Gen. Zachary Taylor,a soldier of the true Jackson type, indefatigable, brave andjudicious, was now conducting the campaign, and eventuallyconquered a peace from the savage Seminoles. The subjuga-tion of these Indians cost the United States $40,000,000, tosay nothing of the valuable lives sacrificed in the treacherouswarfare of the aboriginees. Van Buren died July 24, 1862. The most notable events of this administration were thegreat panic, the Seminole war, the Canadian rebellion, Tay-lors victory at Lake Okeechobee, and the admission ofMichigan. ?^.
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