Historic Sketches at Washington
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Excerpt from Historic Sketches at Washington: Containing a Full Record of the Origin and Early History of Washington City and Its Founders, Together With a Detailed Account of Its Growth, Its Public Buildings, the Style and Extravagance of Living There, and a Description of the Inside Working of The The great Limantour claim - Frauds under Spanish, Mexican, and British titles - A New Hampshire judge impeached for drunkenness, profanity, and insanity, in 1804 - Impeachment of Judge Chase - The Vice-President presides under indictment for murder - Chase acquitted - Meanness of John Randolph - The elder Dallas charged with bribery - Secret service money to bribe France - Judge Sebastian charged with treason - Commander-in-chief Jas. Wilkinson ditto - Senator John Smith and Burr´s treason - Edward Livingston´s Batture claim - Albert Gallatin and the Whisky Insurrection - Pennsylvania defies the Government and confiscates prizes - A day ordained for private bills - Wrangle over the United States Bank - The case of John Henry - Clay and Calhoun conspire against the newspaper writers - Settlement of the Yazoo claims - Second National Bank - It is abetted by Dallas and Calhoun - The General Government makes the first large appropriations for roads and public buildings in 1815 - Origin of the Preemption rights - Scandal over the Second National Bank - Amos Kendall tells the story - Clerks taking advantage of their positions - Abel R. Corbin - George Cowlam; Society and the City from the Madisonian to the Emancipation Period; Origin of the custom - Reminiscences of Mrs. Ogle Tayloe - Mrs. Madison institutes the habit - Her influence on Washington society - Personal description - Madison inhabits the Tayloe mansion - The foreign ministers - sketch of the marine band - The brilliant Winter of 1825 - Lafayette in the city - A general resume of fine society - Great feed - Lafayette meets an old friend - Toast making - John Quincy Adams builds a house - A President´s son in-law - Gen. Jackson´s receptions - Society in Fillmore´s times - Harriet Lane - New Year´s customs extend to private houses - Growth of Washington City - The appropriations of 1873 - The board of public works - Rejuvenated Washington in 1873 - Extraordinary improvements; The Romance of the Capitol Building; The old edifice - How the dome was constructed - Its dimensions and cost - The great statue surmounting the dome - Splendid ceremony when it was raised - The forts salute it - Weight of the structure - How the patterns were prepared - The old dome - Pressure - Interior of the dome - Trumbull´s paintings - The relieves About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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