Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all landsEmbodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive . 0. Afterthe return of peace the debt was rapidly reduced, and in 1836, it havingbeen all paid off it was computed that on the ist of January, 1837, therewould remain in the treasury a surplus revenue of $27,000,000. An actwas passed by Congress (1836) for distributing this surplus (reserving$5,000,000)
Story of one hundred years : A comprehensive review of the political and military events, the social, intellectual and material progress, and the general state of mankind in all landsEmbodying detailed and accurate accounts of all things of importance and interest, from 1801 to 1900, inclusive . 0. Afterthe return of peace the debt was rapidly reduced, and in 1836, it havingbeen all paid off it was computed that on the ist of January, 1837, therewould remain in the treasury a surplus revenue of $27,000,000. An actwas passed by Congress (1836) for distributing this surplus (reserving$5,000,000), to be paid, in four instalments, to the several States, in pro-portion to their representation in the Senate and House of Represen-tatives. The admission of Arkansas into the Union as a State, the beginningof Garrisons anti-slavery agitation, and the conception of the Anti-Slavery Society, date from the closing years of Jacksons administration,though more is to be heard of the last two at a later date. At the close of his second term President Jackson acquiesced in theestablished custom, and signified his intention of retiring to private the election in the fall of 1836, Martin Van Buren, of New York, waschosen to succeed him, with R. M. Johnson, of Kentucky, as
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