Identifier: historyofuniteds5andr (find matches)
Title: History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Andrews, Elisha Benjamin, 1844-1917 James, James Alton, 1864-1962
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Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
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on April 30, 1889. ^n observance ofthe occasion President Harrison followedthe itinerary of one hundred years before, jo EXPANSION (1889 from the Governors mansion in New Jerseyto the foot of Wall Street, in New YorkCity, to old St. Pauls Church, on Broadway,and to the site where the first Chief Magis-trate first took the oath of office. Three daysdevoted to the commemorative exerciseswere a round of naval, military, and indus-trial parades, with music, oratory, pageantry,and festivities. For this Centennial Whit-tier composed an ode. The venerable Rev.S. F. Smith, who had written Americafifty-seven years before, was also inspiredby the occasion to pen a Century Hymn,and to add to America the stanza : Our joyful hearts to-day,Their grateful tribute pay, Happy and free,After our toils and fears,After our blood and tears,Strong with our hundred years,O God, to Thee. At the opening of this its second centuryof existence the nation was confronted byentirely new issues. Bitterness between
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1890) EVENTS OF HARRISONS TERM 73 North and South, spite of its brief recru-descence during the pendency of the ForceBill, was fast dying- out. At the unveilingof the noble monument to Robert E. Leeat Richmond, in May, 1890, while, of course,Confederate leaders were warmly cheeredand the Confederate flag was displayed,various circumstances made it clear thatthis zeal was not in derogation of therestored Union. The last outbreaks of sectional animosityrelated to Jefferson Davis, in whom, bothto the North and to the South, the ghost ofthe Lost Cause had become curiously per-sonified. The question whether or not hewas a traitor was for years zealously debatedin Congress and outside. The oreneralamnesty after the war had excepted Davis.When a bill was before Congress givingsuitable pensions to Mexican War soldiersand sailors, an amendment was carried, amidmuch bitterness, excluding the ex-presidentof the Confederacy from the benefits there-of. Northerners naturally glorified theirtriumph

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