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show that at Sandusky the former did the work, while the 
latter shirked his duty/^ The whole attack on Harrison's 
military record was made to reflect on the Democrats, and 
they gained no advantage from this policy. Harrison had 
also voted to punish runaway servants with thirty-nine 
stripes,^® and to sell servants for nonpayment of debt."^^ These 
charges of “white-slavery” brought his opponents little ad- 
vantage. 
The Democrats published one paper for campaign purposes 
alone. Kendall resigned as postmaster-general upon pretense 
of poor health and at once became the editor of the Extra 
Globe. It was this paper that he was accused of having had 
franked by members of Congress. 
The chief strength of the Whigs lay in their power to arouse 
enthusiasm. The Democrats pretended to despise this meth- 
od, but were Anally compelled, in self-defense, to try the same 
plan. In this, they were not very successfuT® as compared 
with the Whigs, altho they were able to arouse more enthus- 
iasm than is generally supposed. 
Both parties were accused of fraud in the elections. It 
was freely charged by the Democratic press that Boston was 
sending money into New Hampshire to be used for vote-buy- 
ing."^® Sworn statements were secured and printed that vot- 
ers were shipped from Albany to New York where they voted 
in several wards. The real scandal of the campaign was the 
Glentworth fraud. Glentworth had imported a working crew 
from Philadelphia to New York to be used in the election, but 
they were supposed to be engaged as laborers in laying water- 
mains for the Croton water supply. The charges could not 
be denied. Weed said it was done to offset like actions on 
the part of the Democrats.®® 
Congdon, Reminiscences of a Journalist, 75. 
The Globe, September 14, 1840. 
” Ibid., March 25, 1840. 
“When one convention of young- Democrats failed, for want of support, Douglas 
saved the situation only by explaining that hard-working Democrats could not leave 
their employment to go gadding.” Allen Johnson, Stephen A. Douglas (New York, 1908), 
49. 
New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, May 6, 1839 ; The Globe, April 27, 1839. 
Tuckerman (ed.). The Diary of Philip Hone, II, 47; Marian Gouverneur, As I 
Remember (London and New York, 1912), 12; Thurlow Weed Barnes, Memoir of 
Thurlow Weed (Boston, 1884), I, 493. 
