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Meanwhile the condemned men have made small outcry. Jailed at Gadsden, Ala., one complained: "We just don't like that death sentence...
...Major Hoover vetoes: 1) pension increase for Spanish War veterans (repassed over his objections) ; 2) first disability pension for War veterans (repassed as new legislation); 3) Bonus loans (repassed); 4) Harney County, Ore., land care; 5) 50? Gadsden Purchase coins...
Englishmen first settled along the Ashley River in 1670, ten years later moved their government to the rich peninsula between the Ashley and the Cooper. Rice and cotton gave prosperity. Cavalier second sons, high-born French Huguenots, gave aristocracy. Great names- Pinckney, Rutledge, Lewis, Calhoun, Gadsden, Ravenel, Laurens, Petigru-rose and fell. The St. Cecilia society balls dazzled Northern visitors. To see the magnolia gardens, men crossed the sea. In St. Andrew's hall on Dec. 20, 1860, South Carolina voted itself out of the Union. Last big Charleston event: the $5,000,000 earthquake...
...Passed three coinage bills: discontinuing the minting of $2.50 gold pieces; authorizing the minting of special 50? pieces commemorating the Gadsden Purchase, the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony...
...Gadsden Purchase made by President Pierce in 1853, named for James Gadsden who negotiated it, is a strip of land across the southern part of New Mexico and Arizona, bought from Mexico for $10,000,000 to "rectify" the international boundary. Five years earlier, following the Mexican War, the U. S. had taken all of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, paying only $15,000,000. The Gadsden Purchase is something of a synonym for Conscience Money...