Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1840-08-18
LOG CABINS Ann. THEIR OCCU
PANTS

In December last, the Baltimore Rcpu5h-
can, the Government organ in Maryland, pub
Usher of the Laws and Public Advertisements
by Auihori,y, edited 10y Samuel Harker,
bitter Federalist from the days OF John Adj
ans downward, thus sncercd AT tho poverty
and humble pretensons of WILLIAM HESRy
HARRISON,
Give Gen Harrison $4,000 year and a
barrel of Hard Cider, our word for it, he will
sit contenied for the remainder of his days in
/ his Log CABIN on the Banks of the Ohio"
| This sheer WIS copied into severalIIoco. Fo-
co papers--we understand that the Globe was
among them.
| This was thought marvellous rcl 'ln IF te
time in the office holding circles.
ington correspondent of the New N'r
ming Post wrote on that subscii
getting up 10 relieve the poverty Of .e
North Bend and invited every body
such old clothes as they could spare. :. iu.O.
Baltimore Republican called meeting of the
Democracy of Baltimore, in favor of the Sub
Treasury and opposed to Hard Cider and
Niger Cabins" In another number it re.
marked that Negroes are generally the ten
ants of Log Cabins. friends Of Gen.
Harrison were finally aroused by the insult,
and chcerfully assumed the reproach which
office holding pride and haughiiness had en-
then, it is our private opinion that the gentle
men around the public crib wish from the bot
tom of their hearts that they had said nothing
about Gen Harrisons poverty and Log Cabin.
To show how philosopher, who is above
the little vanity of wealth and station, regards
the Log Cabin men of America, We copy the
following passage from Democracy in Amer.
ica,' by NJ. DC Tocquevilc, distinguished
French statesmen and who recently Travelled
over our country, engaged in the study of its
People and lnstitu, ions. He remarks
? "At the extreme border of our confederate
States, upon the confines of society and the
wilderness, population of bold adventurer,
have taken up their abode, who pierce the sol
itudes of the American woods, and seeI
a country there in order to escape the pow,
erty which awaited them in their native
provinces As soon as the pioneer arrive:
upon tho spot which is to serve him as a re
treat, he fells a few trees and builds a Loo
HOUSE. Nothing can offer a more miserable
aspect than these isolated dwellings. The
traveller who approaches one of them towards
night-fall; sees the Pickering of the hearth
flame through the chinks in the walls: and a
: night il the wind rises, he hears the roof o.
bonphs shake to and fro in the midst of thu
great forest trees. Who would not suppos,
that this poor hut was tho asylum of ignoranc
: and rudencssi Yet no sort of comparison
can be drawn between the pioneer and thu
dwelling which shelters him. Every thing a
, bout him is primitive and uniormed but he i
himself the result of the labor and the expert
! ence of eighteen centuries He wears the dres
, and speak ks the language of cities; he is &C
quainted with the past, curious for the future
and ready for argument upon the present; h
is in short highly intellectual being, VIII
!, consents for time to inhabit the wild woods
and who penetrates into the wilds of a n ov
world, with the bible, an axe, and file q
newspapers. LOG Cabin