. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly. tor ofthe Oliio Confederate and Old School Republican, andhis associate, Robert Ware, vaguely emphasized the needfor reform in the Government, ^ and it was around thisactive organization of state rights men that the Whigshoped to unite all who were discontented with Van Bur-en and once had been followers of Jackson. At a meet-ing of the State Rights Association of Columbus, inJanuary, 1840, D. W. Deshler was chosen president,Isaac Taylor, vice-president, and George Jeffries, secre-tary. A resolutions committee, composed of N. M. Mil- Troy Mail quo


. Ohio archæological and historical quarterly. tor ofthe Oliio Confederate and Old School Republican, andhis associate, Robert Ware, vaguely emphasized the needfor reform in the Government, ^ and it was around thisactive organization of state rights men that the Whigshoped to unite all who were discontented with Van Bur-en and once had been followers of Jackson. At a meet-ing of the State Rights Association of Columbus, inJanuary, 1840, D. W. Deshler was chosen president,Isaac Taylor, vice-president, and George Jeffries, secre-tary. A resolutions committee, composed of N. M. Mil- Troy Mail quoted in Cincinnati Daily Gazette, December 5, 1840. Ohio Confederate and Old School Republican, August 6, 1840. 484 Ohio Arch, and Hist. Society Puhlications ler, Robert Ware, and Robert Neil pledged their supportof Harrison as a representative of the Old School Re-publicans. The Van Buren administration was chargedwith violating every principle that Republicans of the EDITED BY THE ExectUive Comrmttee of the Tippecanoe Clubof Delaware ^Z^<^^01^ Union of the Ifkigs for the sake of the PRESIDENT. WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, OF V. PRESIDENT. JOHN TYLER, OF VIRGINIA. LOG CABINIllustration carried at the top of the editorial column of the HarrisonFlag, a Whig campaign paper published in Delaware, Ohio, in 1840. State Rights School have held to be fundamental to oursystem and conservative of our liberties. . Jackson Reform Clubs, also sponsored by the Whigs,were organized. Columbus had a Jackson Reform Ohio Confederate and Old School Republican, quoted in BelmontChronicle, February 11, 1840. Party Politics in Ohio, 1840-1850 485 True American Association with John McElvain, aformer follower of Jackson, as chairman. At the sug-gestion of the Jackson Reform Club of Newark, aState Convention of discontented Jacksonians was heldon September 25th. In July, 1840, the State Rightsorganization and the defection movement of old Jack-sonians were merged in a meeting


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