Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1840-04-30
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From lhe Bnston Senlinel.
THE LOG CABIN CANDIDATE.

THE LOG CABIN CANDIDATE.
From the first moment that the people
Of the United States began TO direct their
eyes toward Gen. HARRISON, as can
dldate for the Presidency, and as the only
man capable of saving the country, by uni
ting all the opposition under his patriotic
banner,-the minions ofthe administration
have labored day and night, with zeal
worthy Of better cause, to detract from
his fair fame. The public archives have
been ransacked, his campaigns and ne
gotiations have been reviewed his mea-
sures in Congress scrutinized, his procla-
nations, speeches ard written reports have
been garbled and criticised, land his whole
life both public and private has been inves-
gated, not for the honorable purpose OF
doing justice 10 the man, but to blast his
character before the people.
Fortunately, however, for him, as an
individual, and for the nation at large, all
these factious attempts have proved abor-
tive. Amid the concentrated storm Of
partizan denunciatlons from all sections
ofthe country, WILLIAM II. HARRI-
SON has stood unscathed, like the oak of
the forest; the blast may strip it of cover.
ing, but it becomes thereby, the more able
to resist the bowling tempest. So it is
with the character of the peoples candi-
date !: the more it has been exposed to
scrutiny, the brighter it has appeared.-
Through his long public career, civil and
military, not single act can be pointed
out, which does not rebound TO his high
honor.
Nevertheless, batfled in its attempt to
find authentic charges against him. par.
tizan malice has resorted to fiction, and
been busy and ingenious in fabricating
falsehoods for political effect. His sent-
ments have been misrepresented, his
opinions misquoted, his writings garbled,
and every act of his life has been distorted
into some monstrous shape, the very oppo-
site of its intent, or of fair construction.
Meanwhile, his friends have promptly re-
luted such charges, and placed the seal Of
public reprobation on his calumniators.-
Still, with reckless desperation, his enc
mics have reiterated their lalsehoods, and
they will probably keep up the fire till
next November.
That the people do not appreciate Gen.
HARRISON the less for his priyaiions,
past or present, is evident from the fact,
that g Log Cabins" are coming in favor
all over the country. The sovereign peo-
pie are rearing them in counties and towns
ana they are universally becoming the
raIlying points Of patriotism, and the re.
sorts Of committees Of vigilance and Of
safety. The "Log Cabin" is in fact
fit emblem Oft the priyations and sufferings
Of the hero OF many battles in the far
West, and we thank our opponents for
furnishing so appropriate badge ofthe
services of our candidate. If we mistake
not the signs ofthe times, he will soon be
called upon by reclamation from his pre-
sent " Log Cabin" to the White House in
Washington.
But it is among the remarkable incon.
sistencies of the times, in which we live,
that these very partizans, who claim to be
of the exclusive Democracy" and the
friends OF the poor, do not hesitate to taunt
the hero of the last war, with poverty, be-
cause he lives in republican simplicity
In this spirit, they designated Gen. Har-
rison as the "LOG CABIN CANDl.
DATE. Whether this is because in his
early career of honor and patriotism, in
the wilderness Of tie far West, he was
often compelled TO make the best of "a
" Log CABIN, or because he now lives
without ostenlation, at his farm house on
the North Bend of the Ohio riyef,-is
equally unimportaut. His enemies may
have all the advantage to be derived from
such ignobe taunts.