CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



land mobs of unemployed men and women were 

 either begging for bread or smashing the new 

 machines that had displaced them in the fac- 

 tories. In the Tyrol, sixty thousand peasants, 

 who had revolted from the intolerable tyranny 

 of the Bavarians, were being beaten into sub- 

 mission. In Servia, the Turks were striking 

 down a rebellion by building a pyramid of thirty 

 thousand Servian skulls, a tragic pile which 

 may still be seen midway between Belgrade and 

 Stamboul. Sweden was being trampled under 

 the feet of a Russian army; and the greater part 

 of Holland, Austria, Germany, and Spain had 

 been so scourged by the hosts of Napoleon as 

 to be one vast shamble of misery and blood. 

 In the United States there was no war, but 

 there certainly did exist an abnormal surplus of 

 adversity. The young republic, which had 

 fewer white citizens than the two cities of New 

 York and Chicago possess to-day, was being 

 terrorized in the West by the Indian Confederacy 

 of Tecumseh; and its flag had been flouted by 

 England, France, and the Barbary pirates. Its 

 total revenue was much less than the value of 



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