Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1840-05-07
From the Boston Atlas.

From the Boston Atrs.
"LOG CABINS AND HARD CIDER"
We thank Thee, Je,c, for teaching us that scord.'
The tory party are somewhat alarmed at
the effects which their own ISLANDERS and
sneers at the poverty of Gen. Harrison are
get rid of the responsibility of calling him
the " Hard CideS and the Log Cdbin' cam
didate. The tories are striving to make it
appear that the story originated with the
Wings, and have the assurance to go so far
as to deny in toto that he even lives in log
house. As some of our friends have express
sed a curiosity to know the origin of the
terms Hard Cider and Log Cabin, which
have now become the rallyng cry Of the
majority Of the freemen of the United States,
partly 10 crafty their desire for information,
and partly to pin the falsehood uponlhe fore
heads of these veterans in deception, we will
show the first origin of these words, and that
they came originally from the tory party
alone.
Within very few days after the nomina-
ton of the Harrisburg Convention was an.
nounced, the correspondent of the Baltimore
Republican,, Tory paper, gave what he
pretended was an account of visit by him
found the General in Log Cabin, and that
the only refreshment furnished him by his
poverty stricken host was "hard cider and
crackers" at which the visitor very politely
turned up his aristocratic nose and marched
off. The court bred puppy concluded his
TRADE with the following precious specimen
| of tory decency:
"Give him barrel of HARD CIDER, and
settle pension of two thousand year on
him, and my word for it, he will sit the re.
mainder of his days in his LOG CABIN, by
the side of " sea coal' fire, and study moral
philosophy"
A few days after the same paper furnished
the following additional evidence of the dis
regard of the writer for decency and propri-
ETY. of even the most ordinary character:
"A Proposition-It was proposed some
time since, that Gen. Harrison should be pre-
sented with barrel Of HARD CIDER on
condition of his retiring from the field as
candidate for the Presidency"
About the same time the Washington cor.
respondent of the N. Y. Evening Post, fol-
lowing the example Of its worthy, conpeer,
added the following excruciating piece of
witticism to the numberless humanity attacks
which have come from that party:
"Gen. Harrison's poverty has awakened
the sympathy of the ladies of this District,
and they are now at work, getting UP sub
scription to supply the "war worn hero"
with a suit of clothes. Ifyou have any old
shoes, old boots, old hats, or old stockings.
send them on, and they will be forwarded to
the "hero of the North Bend" 49,
For while, the Tories thought all this
capital joke, and these choice extracts were
copied far and wide into the locotoco papers.
No one thought then of telling the falsehood
nf IL, NnIn rly nf
court" to use their own language. Oh me
On the other hand, the Wings are willing
to allow that the General did reside in a
dwelling, which being built of hewn logs
might perhaps be styled a log cabin nor
did they deny that he occasionally quenched
his thirst with that truly republican bever-
age, "hafd cider" while Mr.. Van Buren,
was INDUCING in the more aristocratic and
costly drink Of champaign. Nor could the
wings perceive any crime in his honest pow
erty. 80.
Meanwhile these contemptuous and disrc-
putable sneers at the honorable poverty Of
the brave defender of his country aroused
the Indignation of the honest yeonanry, me-
chanics and laborers throughout the coun-
try. The leaders saw their party hacks had
made a mistake-that they were creating an
unfavorable impression, and that the People
Log Cabin Candidate. They attempted &C
cordngly to remedy the mischief As Mr..
Buchanan waited a whole month without
dreaming he was misrepresented by Mr..
Davis, so the tories charged Gen. Harrison
with being a poor man until they found they
were aiding his cause and injuring their own,
when, 10! they changed right about! Gen.
Harrison is no longer the poor man he was,
he no longer lives in log cabin, but in one
of stone, Gan untruth) on one of the richest
farms in Ohio. and has an immense salary.
&C. But it is an endless and an Improbable
labor TO hunt the Locofocos through the la
byrinth of falsehood, which they have in
vented concerning Gen. Harrison. Their
aspersions are so numerous and so contra
dictory, they neutralize one another.
AnecdOie-As several gentlemen were recently
conversng upon the Presidential election one indi
vidual observed that Mr. Clay had said that the Lo-
cos would not get but SIR States. Another immedi-
a,ey remarked that they would most certainly get
ona.lnore than tha,-snd when requested TO name it,
declared that he thought no one would dispute tha;
thew had just claim to the State Of sin and mise
ry'