. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. n address to the country, Amos Kendall declared that con-tempt of the people lay at the bottom of the whole Harrison schemeof electioneering. We have seen vast assemblages collectedtogether, he said, at great labor and cost, not to respond to anyprinciples, or to listen to any argument, but to drown the voice ofreason in the shouts of revelry, and to lead
. The annals of the families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and George Spengler, who settled in York County, respectively, in 1729, 1732, 1732, and 1751 : with biographical and historical sketches, and memorabilia of contemporaneous local events. n address to the country, Amos Kendall declared that con-tempt of the people lay at the bottom of the whole Harrison schemeof electioneering. We have seen vast assemblages collectedtogether, he said, at great labor and cost, not to respond to anyprinciples, or to listen to any argument, but to drown the voice ofreason in the shouts of revelry, and to lead captive the feelings ofthe people in a senseless excitement, aroused by the hauling of logcabins, canoes and cider barrels through the streets ; the displayof banners with unmeaning mottoes; the singing of doggerelrhymes, and the exhibition of vulgar pictures ; riot and drunken-ness, joined with mummery and mockery—all alike disgracefulaud insulting. Above everything else, however, according to the HARRISON—VAN BUREN CAMPAIGN. 273 same authority, was the use of money without stint, thejabuse ofofi&cial station, and privilege without restraint, and the violation ofthe law without reserve ; altogether forming a flood of demora-. BUREN AND RUIN. (From au cilJ prinl in S. Y. Sun. lization, in some of the states resting in stagnant pools, con-taminating the atmosphere of liberty, and threatening death toeverything virtuous, noble and free— even to the Republic itself. 274 HARRISON—VAN BUREN CAMPAIGN. This was putting the case very strongly, but no doubt Mr. Ken-dall devoutly believed all that he alleged. The Harrison men—otherwise the Whigs—were not in the leastmoved by the complaints and charges of the Democrats, otherwisethe Locofocos, but continued to hold their big meetings, to ex-hibit their vulgar pictures, to sing their doggerel rhymes, to drinktheir hard cider, and to drag their canoes and log cabins on wheelsthrough the streets and along the country roads. They
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