Comic History of the United States

Bill Nye

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Project Gutenberg's Comic History of the United States, by Bill NyeThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.netTitle: Comic History of the United StatesAuthor: Bill NyeIllustrator: F. OpperRelease Date: May 13, 2007 [EBook #21427]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK COMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES ***Produced by Joseph R. Hauser, Janet Blenkinship and theOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.netCOVER.Title page.Bill Nye'sHISTORYOF THEUNITEDSTATESILLUSTRATED BYF. OpperTHOMPSON & THOMAS,CHICAGO.COPYRIGHT, 1894,BYJ. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.PREFACEPREFACEPREFACE.Facts in a nude state are not liable criminally, any more than bright and beautiful children commit a felony by being bornthus; but it is the solemn duty of those having these children in charge to put appropriate, healthful, and even attractiveapparel upon them at the earliest possible moment.It is thus with facts. They are the frame-work of history, not the drapery. They are like the cold, hard, dishevelled, damp,and uncomfortable body under the knife of the demonstrator, not the bright and bounding boy, clothed in gracefulgarments and filled to every tingling capillary with a soul.We, each of us, the artist and the author, respect facts. We ...

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Project Gutenberg's Comic History of the United
States, by Bill Nye
This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no
cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,
give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg
License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net
Title: Comic History of the United States
Author: Bill Nye
Illustrator: F. Opper
Release Date: May 13, 2007 [EBook #21427]
Language: English
*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK
COMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES ***
Produced by Joseph R. Hauser, Janet Blenkinship and
the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team atOnline Distributed Proofreading Team at
http://www.pgdp.net
COVER.
Title page.
Bill Nye's
HISTORY
OF THE
UNITED
STATES
ILLUSTRATED BY
F. Opper
THOMPSON & THOMAS,
CHICAGO.COPYRIGHT, 1894,
BY
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.
PREFACE
PREFACE
PREFACE.
Facts in a nude state are not liable criminally, any
more than bright and beautiful children commit a
felony by being born thus; but it is the solemn duty of
those having these children in charge to put
appropriate, healthful, and even attractive apparel
upon them at the earliest possible moment.
It is thus with facts. They are the frame-work of
history, not the drapery. They are like the cold, hard,
dishevelled, damp, and uncomfortable body under the
knife of the demonstrator, not the bright and bounding
boy, clothed in graceful garments and filled to every
tingling capillary with a soul.
We, each of us, the artist and the author, respect
facts. We have never, either of us, said an unkind
word regarding facts. But we believe that they should
not be placed before the public exactly as they were
born. We want to see them embellished and
beautified. That is why this history is written.
Certain facts have come into the possession of the
artist and author of this book regarding the history of
the Republic down to the present day. We find, uponlooking over the records and documents on file in the
various archives of state and nation, that they are
absolutely beyond question, and it is our object to give
these truthfully. These rough and untidy, but
impregnable truths, dressed in the sweet persuasive
language of the author, and fluted, embossed,
embroidered, and embellished by the skilful hand of
the artist, are now before you.
History is but the record of the public and official acts
of human beings. It is our object, therefore, to
humanize our history and deal with people past and
present; people who ate and possibly drank; people
who were born, flourished, and died; not grave
tragedians, posing perpetually for their photographs.
If we succeed in this way, and administer historical
truth in the smooth capsule of the cartoonist and the
commentator, we are content. If not, we know whose
fault it will be, but will not get mad and swear about it.
Bill Nye.
Fred'k B. Opper.
BILL NYE'S FIELD OF HISTORIC RESEARCH.
CONTENTS
P
A
CHAPTER I.
G
E1
The Discovery of America
3
CHAPTER II.
2
Other Discoveries—Wet and Dry
3
CHAPTER III.
3
The Thirteen Original Colonies
6
CHAPTER IV.
4
The Plymouth Colony
7
CHAPTER V.
5
Drawbacks of Being a Colonist
5
CHAPTER VI.
6
The Episode of the Charter Oak
2
CHAPTER VII.
7
The Discovery of New York
2
CHAPTER VIII.
8
The Dutch at New Amsterdam
2
CHAPTER IX.
9
Settlement of the Middle States
2
CHAPTER X.
1
The Early Aristocracy 0
2
CHAPTER XI.1
Intercolonial and Indian Wars 1
0
CHAPTER XII.
1
Personality of Washington 2
4
CHAPTER XIII.
1
Contrasts With the Present Day 3
1
CHAPTER XIV.
1
The Revolutionary War 4
2
CHAPTER XV.
1
Benjamin Franklin, LL.D., PhG, F.R.S.
5
, etc.
2
CHAPTER XVI.
1
The Critical Period 6
0
CHAPTER XVII.
1
The Beginning of the End 7
0
CHAPTER XVIII.
1
The Close of the Revolution 8
1CHAPTER XIX.
1
The First President 9
1
CHAPTER XX.
2
The War With Canada 0
3
CHAPTER XXI.
2
The Advance of the Republic 1
2
CHAPTER XXII.
2
More Difficulties Straightened Out 2
2
CHAPTER XXIII.
2
The Websters 3
3
CHAPTER XXIV.
Befo' the Wah—causes Which Led To 2
It—masterly Grasp Of the Subject Sh 4
own by the Author 3
CHAPTER XXV.
2
Bull Run and Other Battles 5
2
CHAPTER XXVI.
2
Some More Fratricidal Strife 63
CHAPTER XXVII.
Still More Fraternal Bloodshed, on Pri
nciple—outing Features Disappear, an 2
d Give Place To Strained Relations Be 7
tween Combatants, Who Begin To Mi 4
x Things
CHAPTER XXVIII.
2
Last Year of the Disagreeable War 8
4
CHAPTER XXIX.
Too Much Liberty in Places and Not E
nough Elsewhere.—thoughts On the L
ate War—who Is the Bigger Ass, The 2
Man Who Will Not Forgive and Forget 9
, Or The Mawkish and Moist Eyed Sni 7
veller Who Wants To Do That All the
Time?
CHAPTER XXX.
3
Reconstruction Without Pain—adminis
0
trations of Johnson And Grant
5
CHAPTER XXXI.
3
Closing Chronicles 1
7
3
Appendix 2
9Genius of discovery
CHAPTER I.
THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA.
It was a beautiful evening at the close of a warm,
luscious day in old Spain. It was such an evening as
one would select for trysting purposes. The
honeysuckle gave out the sweet announcement of its
arrival on the summer breeze, and the bulbul sang in
the dark vistas of olive-trees,—sang of his love and his
hope, and of the victory he anticipated in the morrow's
bulbul-fight, and the plaudits of the royal couple who
would be there. The pink west paled away to the touch
of twilight, and the soft zenith was sown with stars
coming like celestial fire-flies on the breast of a mighty
meadow.
Across the dusk, with bowed head, came a woman.
Her air was one of proud humility. It was the air of
royalty in the presence of an overruling power. It was
Isabella. She was on her way to confession. She
carried a large, beautifully-bound volume containing a
memorandum of her sins for the day. Ever and anon
she would refer to it, but the twilight had come on so
fast that she could not read it.
ISABELLA AT CONFESSIONAL.
ISABELLA AT CONFESSIONAL.
Reaching the confessional, she kneeled, and, by the