The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-09-11
log CABINS AND HARD CIDER
Extract from Mr.. James Dunlops speech at Pitts
burgh, in defence Of Log Cabins.

Extract from Mr.. James Dunlops speech at Pitts
bureh in defence Of Log Cabins
why is the Frigate Constitution dear 10 our
countrymen3 Why does every one of US coyet cane
ar snuff box fabricated of her bulwarks Why does
every man desire her preservation long plank
remains of her . She is but mere combination OF
iron and wood But she embodes in her history the
bravery and skill of navy She carried our flag
trun,hantly the broad ocean, and broughter
and destruction upon the enemies of our country.
Yet she is nothing but oak and pine the very mate
rails of true log cabin She Is The Log Cabin Of the
Hero Of the Sea, and ours rs The Log Cabin Of the
Hero Of me Land. Rally around it, Democrats, it is
the emblem OF the hardy straighout hard listed rug
ped pine knots that keep up its fires
WHY should we abandon this emblem of PATRIOTISM
and integrity and frecdom2 Ii is rough and humble,
is pile oflogs but il is associated with thou
sand pleasing images and joyous aspirations. And
what il the flag of our countryi Mere bunting, mere
bits of striped bunting as the British sneeringy de
nominated before they fully learned TO estimate its
tremendous power. Is there enthusiasm breathing
from its folds il lutters TO the Heavens Are no
patriotic associations connected with Is there any
man dead to the glorious "reminiscences that play
in brilliant coruscations around the stv es and stars
of his countrys ag-whose heart does not bounce at
beholding il streaming like meteor to the wind
floating over the ships and batements Of his country}
the star-spanged banner that floats the land Of
the free and the home of the brave 1t has borne
armies and navies in pride and triumph in the strife Of
battle 1t rushed victory at the glorious conflict of
the Maumee. II Waved defiance the cntrench-
ments of Fort Meigs and scattered dsmay at the bat
tie of the Thames
Fellowcltizens the of the destrucves at the
Log Cabin edifcc like the of the English
at the punches Of pine boards and bits Of bunting of
our frigates, till Decatur and Hull and Perry, and
Nc Donough, turned their smiles to sighs-as will
Ohio, and Virginia, and Pennsylvania and New
York induce misguided friends to show respect to
and seek their shelter under the broad hosptabc roof
of the Log Cabin Farmer.
like, too the hard cider cry 1ce are II 10 The
enemy II is pledge Of temperance The affected
pretext of its leading to indulgence as urged with
grief and bitterness, comes well from those who
had danced around the poles Of hickory and tossed
their caps in excited revclry TO its branches Who
drink hard cider No one who can get any thing
else. Where would you 90 10 public gathering less
likely to be Incorporate than to the Hard Cider Log
Cabin Tppecanoe rasing2 AT Beaver, on the 4th
of July the only public political meeting haye at
tended there was nothing TO drink provided, am
happy to say, but ice water. AT the raising of the
Log Cabin in Allegheny few days ago, where it is
said thousands of hard cider men were actively
gagged no smulantsI am told, were provided drunk
Hard Cider is mere appeIlaon of amusement, and
is good an antidote to intemperancc friend of
temperance could desire Make the Loco focos swal
low it-put it at them, and put it unto them. 1t will
cut the phlcgm it will purge their humors; it will
wash the bile off their stomachs and improve their
eye-sight Though intended, like Yankee Doodle, as
pass word of contempt it has been turned like that
celebrating tune into the rallyng cry Of freedom and
reform.