Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . son and his friends. The great Sena-tor Benton, of INIissouri, one of the warmest supporters of Old Hickory,angrily declared that the House was deliberately defying the will of the people THE LOG-CABIN AND HARD-CIDER CAMPAIGN. 247 by placing a miuority candidate in the cliair. The senators position, however,was untenable, and so it was that John Quincy Adams became the sixth Presi-dent of our country. Jacksons triumph. But th
Home school of American history; embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . son and his friends. The great Sena-tor Benton, of INIissouri, one of the warmest supporters of Old Hickory,angrily declared that the House was deliberately defying the will of the people THE LOG-CABIN AND HARD-CIDER CAMPAIGN. 247 by placing a miuority candidate in the cliair. The senators position, however,was untenable, and so it was that John Quincy Adams became the sixth Presi-dent of our country. Jacksons triumph. But the triumph of Old Hickory was only postponed. His defeat waslooked upon by the majority of men as a deliberate piece of trickery, and they lay low for the next opportunity to square matters. No fear of a secondchance being presented to their opponents. Jackson was launched into the can-vass of 1828 like a cyclone, and when the returns were made up he had 178electoral votes to 83 for Adams—a vote which lifted him safely over the edge ofa plurality and seated him firmly in the White House. It is not our province to treat of the administration of Andrew Jackson, for. OLD SPANISH HOUSE ON BOUHBON STREET, NEW ORLEANS. that belongs to history, but the hold which that remarkalile man maintainedupon the affections of the people was emphasized when, in 1832, he was re-elected by an electoral vote of 219 to 49 for Clay, 11 for Floyd, and 7 for the popular prejudice against a third term, there is little doubt thatJackson would have been successful had he chosen again to be a proved his strength l:)y selecting his successor, Martin Van Buren. THE LOG-CABIX AND HARD-CIDER CAMPAIGN OF 1840. The next notable presidential battle was the log-cabin and hard-cidercam[)aign of 1840, the like of which was never before seen in this William Henry Harrison had been defeated by Van Buren in 1836,but on the 4th of December, 18;)9, tlie National Whig Convention
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