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tions, and processions, eloquence of famous men, and keen 
political humor, few could resist the infection. 
Never was there a campaign so abounding in pictures. 
Wood-engravers and lithographers were busy. There were 
illustrated campaign newspapers, Harrison Almanacs, and 
lives of Harrison. In one picture he was welcoming his old 
comrades in arms at the door of his log cabin. In another, 
he was addressing Bolivar, the South American liberator. 
In another, he was driving his plough, as the “farmer of 
North Bend’\ In another, he v/as building the stockade for 
the defense of Fort Meigs. In another, he was mounted on 
an impossible horse, leading his army to unheard-of exploits 
at Tippecanoe. His portrait not only hung upon walls, but 
was borne in procession and displayed by flags. Caricatures 
were at every street corner. There was the rooster, em- 
blematic of the Indiana elections, ironically labeled, “Tell 
Chapman to Crow!’’ There was the “Ball” depicted as “roll- 
ing on” and over Van Buren and his Cabinet. There was 
Benton, represented as the man who killed the goose that 
laid the golden eggs in the vain hope of more. There was the 
canoe, with “Old Tip” as an Indian chief, paddling swiftly 
to the White House, whence Van Buren was escaping, as 
“the flying Dutchman”. There was the log cabin arranged 
as a trap which had fallen, and the captured fox, with Van 
Buren’s face looking out of the window.'^ 
Flags and transparencies displayed mottoes, proclaiming 
principles and purposes, or derision of opponents, thus : 
“Harrison, Tyler, and Better Times”, “No Standing Army”, 
“No Reduction of Wages”, “0. K. Off to Kinderhook”, “Van 
Buren and Eleven Pence a Day, or Harrison with Two Dollars 
and Roast Beef”, “Harrison and Reform”, “One Presidential 
Term”, “Where the Promised Better Currency?” “The 
Farmer of North Bend”, “Protection to American Industry”, 
“Liberty in Log Cabins rather than Slavery in Palaces”. 
It was in vain that the Van Buren men tried to stem this 
current. Their speakers were eloquent and able, but they 
could draw no such audiences. They called Harrison “an old 
granny”, styled the Whigs “coons” and “cider-suckers”, but 
all to no avail. Leading minds among them declared, and con- 
Seward, op. cit., 498. 
499. 
’’^Ibid., 499. 
