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Identifier: romanticdaysinea02craw (find matches)
Title: Romantic days in the early republic
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Crawford, Mary Caroline, 1874-1932
Subjects: Cities and towns
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown, and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Text Appearing Before Image:
MRS. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
From the portrait by Leslie in the possession of Brooks Adams, Quincy, Massachusetts.

A VIEW OF THE CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON DURING JACKSON'S ADMINISTRATION
From an old print.

Text Appearing After Image:
IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC 211
" the barricades gave way before the multitude,
who forced a passage to shake hands with the
choice of the people. General Jackson mounted
his horse, having walked to the Capitol, and then
such a cortege followed! Countrymen, laborers,
white and black, — carriages, wagons, and carts,
all pursuing him to the President's house. . . .
The closing scene was in disgusting contrast
with the simplicity of the impressive drama
of the inaugural oath! The President was
literally pursued by a motley concourse of
people, riding, running, helter-skelter, striving
who should first gain admittance into the Exec-
utive Mansion, where it was understood that
refreshments were to be distributed. The halls
were filled with a disorderly rabble of negroes,
boys, women, and children scrambling for the
refreshments designed for the drawing-rooms,
the people forcing their way into the saloons,
mingling with the foreigners and citizens sur-
rounding the President. . . . China and glass
to the amount of several thousand dollars were
broken in the struggle to get at the ices and
cakes, though punch and other drinkables
had been carried out in tubs and buckets to
the people; but had it been in hogsheads it
would have been insufiicient besides unsatis-
factory to the mob, who claimed equality in all
things. . . .


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