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Title: When men grew tall;
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Lewis, Alfred Henry, 1857-1914
Subjects: Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ors groan. Likewise, he burnsmidnight oil in planning with Wizard Lewisthe elevation of Vice-President Van Buren,who he is resolved shall have the presidencyafter him. While thus the General lays his Van Burenplans, misguided admirers bombard him withsuch marks of their regard as a phaeton builtof unbarked hickory, and a cheese weighingfourteen hundred pounds. The latter sturdyconfection Is trundled Into the White Housekitchen, from which coign of vantage It sendson high a perfume so utterly urgent that nonemay stay In the White House until It Is re-moved. Following its going, the executive win-dows are thrown open throughout a wind-sweptafternoon, to the end that the last suffocatingreminder of that cheese shall be eliminated. The Generals hours as President are draw-ing to a close. His hopes touching a succes-sor carry through triumphantly, and Vice-Presi-dent Van Buren is selected to follow him.Neither Machiavelli Clay for the Whigs, norStatesman Calhoun among the Democrats, has316
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7 7 2.^^(^ ^><-^^^C-^-^^c^ THE ROUT OF TREASON the courage to offer his own name to thepeople. Statesman Calhoun, aiming to subtract asmuch as he may from the fortunes of nomineeVan Buren, produces a bolting ticket, headedby one Mangum; and, for Mangum, Palmetto-rattlesnake South Carolina—still in a tearfulpout—wastes Its lonely arrow in the air. Itwas, it will be, ever thus with South Carolina,who might do herself a good, and come to sometrue notion of her own peevish Inconsequence,if she would but take a long, hard look In theglass. She is as one who attends the fairs, butso over-esteems herself as to defeat every bar-gain she might make. Her best chances are castaway, a cheap sacrifice to vanity, since no onewill either buy her or sell her at the figure shesets on herself. Thus, too, will it continue.Her frayed prospects, already behind a fashion,are to wax more shopworn and more threadbareas the years unfold. Nominee Van Buren is elected to succeed theGeneral In the Whit

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