. rdinary methods on such occasions; it was their hickory-tree andcotton-ball demonstrations in the interests of Jackson, in the campaigns of 1828and 1832, and of Van Buren in 1836, that suggested or provoked the logcabin, the pine tree, the coon and the hard cider of 1840; and these, in turn,provoked the merciless caricatures and burlesques of 1844. But, after all,there was vastly more of fun than fury in those grand old-time popular up-risings and demonstrations; nor will the political history of the country everbe complete without
. rdinary methods on such occasions; it was their hickory-tree andcotton-ball demonstrations in the interests of Jackson, in the campaigns of 1828and 1832, and of Van Buren in 1836, that suggested or provoked the logcabin, the pine tree, the coon and the hard cider of 1840; and these, in turn,provoked the merciless caricatures and burlesques of 1844. But, after all,there was vastly more of fun than fury in those grand old-time popular up-risings and demonstrations; nor will the political history of the country everbe complete without an illustrated edition embracing an account of in its turn was, in effect, like a great thunder-storm, sweeping over theland, prostrating the weak and the rotten before it, but leaving the sound andthe stalwart more firmly rooted than ever, and all proving the mighty strainwhich the great, grand and glorious political fabric reared for us by our fatherswas capable of bearing. The early settlers were religious by instinct and education. To them the. ^ra zi <*-( HISTORY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 440 church was indispensable both for the social and religious advantages. Theare thus introduced: But we must go to church—the old church of our fathers and pews may be a little stiff, and hard and uncomfortable. The brick floormay look hard and cheerless. The old half-mile stove-pipes and the great oldstoves may have become a little rusty and unsightly, the velvet collection bagsat the ends of long poles may have become a little faded and dingy and thelittle klingle that was so deftly concealed in the huge black tassel may belost. There may be wasps nests in the wainscoting and the quaint old cornices,and there may be a bumblebees nest in the sounding-board above the old sugar-bowl pulpit, or in the holy altar itself. But here we sit as the worshipersgather, clothed in the queer costumes of half a century ago; the men in theirbell-crowned hats, brown surtouts or bl
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