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 .. . s 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, which met 248 FA3I0US PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS PREVIOUS TO mO. at Harrisburg to decide the claims of rival candidates, placed Harrison innomination, while the Democrats again nominated Van B
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 .. . s 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, which met 248 FA3I0US PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS PREVIOUS TO mO. at Harrisburg to decide the claims of rival candidates, placed Harrison innomination, while the Democrats again nominated Van Bureu. General Harrison lived at North Bend, Ohio, in a house which consistedof a log-cabin, built many years before by a j^ioneer, and was afterward coveredwith clapboards. The visitors to the house {)raised the republican simplicity ofthe old soldier, the hero of Tippecanoe, and the principal campaign biographysaid that his table, instead of being supplied with costly wines, was furnishedwith an abundance of the best cider. The canvass had hardly opened, when the Baltimore Republican slurredGeneral Harris(jn by remarking that, if some one would pension him with a. THE MARIGKTY HOUSE, NEW ORLEANS. (WlKTf Louis Philippe stopped in 17Js.) few hundred dollars and give him a barrel of hard cider, he would sit down inhis log-cabin and be content for the rest of his life. That sneer furnished thekeynote of the campaign. Hard cider became almost the sole beverage of theWhigs throughout the country. In every city, town and village, and at thecross-roads, were erected log-cabins, while the amount of hard cider drankwould have floated the American navy. The nights were rent with the shoutsof Tippecanoe and Tyler too, and scores of campaign songs were sung bytens of thousands of exultant, even if not always musical, voices. We recallthat one of the most popular songs began : Oh, where, tell me where, was the log-cabin made?Twas made by the boys that wield the plough and the spade. There w
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