The Ohio Democrat and Dover advertiser. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1839-1840, 1840-03-06

Essea-a molly group Of visages, but gen
orally speaking they we're rank ieders
arisIocrals, who know as IIllle abor
the battle Of Foti Meigs o. 6s Ger
| Har ison knows of Fort Stephenson
But here comes another delegation -
helloa what is that IN 'front.' 'Ponfm
soul its hor se iroughl No, sir tha
is the PenitentiGrg Canoe I' exclaime,
a by-stander. The concern was I'll
of The ruffie-shirt gentry "lhree sheets
ia tho vind,". singing vulgar songs
and yelling, to initiate the Indians J.
mind you, all thisto get votes for har'
rison! Look around sgain, there comes
another delegation, with a steamboat
what does that meant Mean? dom
you read the inscription on the BAN
Her-' 'sl@
With old TIP and Tyler.
Well burst Vans Gler.'-!!!t
| see il aIl-bedayul and classic lines
most cogent argument; and will Sc
cure for the niger candidate overwhel
ming msjorities!l But there is another
delegation--a ship in front! what eau
the feds mean by bringing these ves'
sells here,' | enquired Of q friend at my
elbow. 'Te carry themselves 10 salt
river after the next election he respon
den!
Reader, to give you rest, have
made a paragraph, and now, by your
leave will proceed again. There could
not have been less than an hundred ban
ners flying in every direction, bearing
inscriptions, and mottos, and pa inlings,
that Hogarlb's pencil would fail to por-
tray! on one banner was a picture OF a
log cabin, with coon skins all around
the walls, barrel of 'hard cider by the
door, and mao sucking il from the
hole through straw, with a hunting
shirt on, and huge patches on the knees
Of his pants!!! 'anotLer .mockery Of poor
but honest working men. On the ban
ner were the word, our candidate,' thus
linking to gull people into the belief
hat Gen. Harrison has scarceIy-a roof
10 cover his head ofelotheslo cover his
lakedness; when every person knows
hat he lives in The most comfortable
manner; and holds an Office in Hamil-
OF county, worth to him $4,000 a year.
Some represented Gen Harrison with
he ihdans--but nothing seemed even
o hint towards Fort Stephenson! A
,reat many carried brooms on their
'houlder,s- another humbug! others had
in-paDs On poles-verY funny! others
lad live buzzards in their arms! others
lad on hunting shirts!-o,hers wrapped |
n bIanke,s!--all for effect; il sicken-
ng 10 the Aenses particularlse; will
cave tho dsgasling scene for tbs pre-
Ient; ! ebould have mentioned however,
hat Neil, then whom greater aris,o.
rat and petty tyrant never lived; mean
Neil Of the Clinton Bank, who Issues
'ost notes, payable twelve months after
late in currency; was mounted on a ca
zoe, eating ginger bread, singing 'old
osin the bow. and trying 10 metamor-
'hose himself into a working man,
When ne deapises and looks upon the
ard 6sied yeomanry oi the country, as
title above the brute creation! This
'ame Neil is a mail contractor; went TO
Washington City not long since, rep-
esentIng himself 10 Amos Kendall as
Democrat, in limited circumstance,
md begging for extra allowances for
ariying tho mail. Alfred Kelley, who
ives in a mstble palace in this city,
VhIch he boasts cos, more than any
'uiding west ofthe mountains, and who
8 the yeriest arisocrat now Iiving-this
nan is another of the master spirits OF
he occasion. But few years ago, !
I'm told that Kelley was a pauper, beg.
ring the Legislature and individuals to
'uld up HE brok,n down for'une,-aud
Who afterwards held the Office of Canal
Commissioner-but thereby hangs q
,ale, ,'-s suffice il 10 say that by some
REX of whig legerdemain, be became
rich very suddenly--aud now leads and
Directs, and controls The democratic ,ohig
party Of Ohio! I! 49,"
At length, the Convention met in the
State House yard, and the Honorable
James Wilson of SteubenyiIle, called II
to order, as President pro tem. This
man was purchased some years since,
"ouI ard body; by Nicholas BiddIe, and
has become rich by bTlbes from the u
nited States Bank; a ft creature to or.
ganlse log cabin convention, bah!
Gen. Bell of Wooster was then chosen
President; with nineteen vices; and the
usual number of Secretaries. A man
they call here Major Downing who lives
in Steubenvile, has the honor TO be vice
nTasident for 1Qih dinlr;ot 'rh;s 0ow.