Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1840-06-23
From the Louisville Journal.
TrTrrH FnN ~nry

THE LOG CABIN.
Our neighbor of the Advertiser, as we ex.
pected, is putting and blowing and sweating
with rage on account of the construction of the
log cabin in this city on Saturday last.
We cannot discover, however
that his exhibitions of fury are likely to accom-.
plsh any thing. There the cabin stands, and
there the American flag floats high above it,
Just as calm and unconcerned as If the blank.
paper and Irvine editor had not written a word
upon the subject. There, too, in spite of loco
foco jeers and denunciations, the cabin will
continue to stand and the flag to float, raj.
lying point for the Wings through the whole
OF the great battle, which, with nerves ofsteel
and hearts of fame, they are waging for their
country and her Institutions.
1t is said that some, even of our poI,tical
tnends, are not aware ofthe origin of the Wing
battle-cry Of "log cabin and hard cider" We
can tell its origin. The Baltimore Republican.
the Maryland organ of the administration.
sneering at the old war-worn soldier of North
Bend at the time of his nomination for the
Presidency, says:-"Give him barrel of hard
cider, and settle on him pension of $4,000 a
year, and, our word for it, he will SIT the rem.
amder OF his days contented III log cabin"
The U. 5. Gazette describes forcibly and
Justly the effect of this most insolent sheer
upon the high spirits of the country. That
paper says:
Stung to the quick by this insult 10 veteran
soldier sound Politician, and an honest man,
the yeomanry OF the country have resented the
cold FLOODED stab, and are determined to make
the contemners of their candidate and his yir-
tues feel the full effect of their insolent bear
ing. They have not attacked the man who
used the language, nor mobbed the Office from
which It emanated in print-they have used no
physical violence to the party that approved
the sentiment, nor assaulted to death anv one
who might bear testimony by public parade
against the Wing candidate; but adopting
practice sanctioned by history, the Wings
lave seized on the very words of the insult.
and made them their war cry. The log cabin
that was to be the abode and reward of the
derlded Farmer, is made tie emblem and stan
dard symbol of the victorious candidate. The
rude construction of unhewn wood that was
the object Of the pharisaical taunt with the
Van Buren, letter writer, is elevated to the dip-
NIFTY OF party, almost national, ensign: while
the finger of the people, from Maine to the
Mississippi, and from the Lakes to the Atlantic
has inscribed above their log cabin raIyino
point, IN letters of fire, in hoe Sig,,o uinces IN
this sign we shall conquer, and the palace at
w ashngton shall owe its renewed purity to
the despised LOG CABIN of North Bend.
The Albany IN. W Evening Journal has a
no less forclble reply to the sneers of the loco
loco presses in relation to log cabins:
log cabin is symbol of nothing that
Van Burenlsm knows, or feels, or can appre.
cate. 1t tells of virtues that dwell in obscu-
rIty--of the hopes of the humboldt the pri.
VatIons OF the poor-of toll and danper-ofper
severance and patient endurance-of hospital
lty and charity and frugality--it is the emblem
OF rights that the vain and insoIent aristocracv
OF federal office-holders have lost sight of or
crushed and trampled on. It is an emblem
OF the simplicity that should characterize Re-
publican Institutions, and which the people
nave determined to bring back to the admins
uaCon OF their affairs-Let our opponents
soon at the device which the untutored SAGA
CITY OF the people is painting upon their ban
ners. 1t will be found ere long that there is a
meaning IN It that will convey to them salu-
tary lesson.
" The following conclusive note is en-
oodled IN recent Address from the Whig
OentraI COMMITTEE of Louisville, Ky.
"NoRTH BEND, June I'd, 1910.
"Gentlemen: In answer to vour inouirv
"whether the letters and speeches which have
been published in my name by my political
friends, particularly those contained in a pamph
let lately published in Cincinnati, by Col. c. s.
Todd and Benz. Drake Esq. contain the senti-
ments and opinions which, at present enter
tam repeat, what have lately written to
committee in n. York, that should not con-
slder myself an honest man to suffer these let
tiers and speeches to be thus used without con.