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Identifier: magazineofamericv9stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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the custom of delivering in person his message on the open-ing of Congress to the two houses sitting in a joint session, after the man-ner of the King and Parliament of Great Britain. He drove to theFederal Hall on such occasions in a coach drawn by six horses, precededand followed by officers on horseback, as shown in the authentic illustration ;and, furthermore (as recorded in his note-book), in the rear came the Chief * The senators and representatives who lived in Wall Street were Elias Boudinot and LambertCadwallader, of New Jersey ; George Read, Richard Bassett, and John Vining, of Delaware;Joshua Seney, Benjamin Contee, and Michael Genifer Stone, of Maryland ; Richard Bland Lee,and Andrew Moore, of Virginia ; Edanus Burke, Daniel Huger, Thomas Sumpter, and ThomasTuder Tucker, of South Carolina ; and John Lawrence, of New York. In Broad Street nearWall lived John Langdon and Paine Wingate of New Hampshire ; Tristam Dalton of Massachu-setts ; and Jonathan Sturges, of Connecticut.
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ONDO WALL STREET IN HISTORY 421 Justice of the United States, and the Secretaries of the Treasury and Wardepartments in their respective carriages, and in the order they arenamed. A volume might easily be filled with the list of questions arising foradjustment while Wall Street was the seat of the new government. Morecomplex, intricate or profound subjects, or those of greater importance tomankind never came before a body of legislators. The principles uponwhich alone the nation could survive were here determined, and the initia-tory matters of interpretation settled. The blended thought and argu-mentation of philosophers, orators, jurists, and statesmen, immortalized thelocality. And singularly enough, upon the very site of the edifice wherethe foundations were laid of our whole governmental scheme the marblestructure has since been placed which guards the golden treasures of theUnion, and Wall Street has been converted into the vital business centerof the country, with its financial

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