Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-04-02


be could getany thing better: tits scarce
" necessary 10 say, that his gcod friends
have bestowed upon him the title merely
al captandum uulgHs.
We copy the subjoined humorous re-
marks upon "Old Tip" and the virtues
of hard cider, from the New York Eve.
ming Post.
The accomplishment of drinking hard
cider, possessed by Que Of the candidates
for the Presidency Of the United States, is
still insisted upon in certain quarters with
great enthusiasm. At one of the recent
D PROFESSIONS Of the friends Of Harrison, the
words hard cider were conspicuously dis:
PLAYED on one of the banners; the image
OF a cider barrel and pitcher has become a
favorite device with certain set Of politl-
clans, and we are told of a certain knot
of them who meet every evening al tav-
ern which bears that sign. The Balti-
more Patriot, of yesterday morning, has
a wood cut representing the dwelling OF
Harrison, with barrel of hard cider be-
fore the door, and huge pitcher in the
window.
1t is intended, no doubt, by this expedi-
ent 10 obtain popularity for Harrison.
" Old hickory" was an appellarion which
many of the admirers of General Jackson
were fond of giving him. The Wings are
initiative, and ready TO take any method
of catching popularity except the true one,
that Of acknowledging popular rights.
They have doubtless considered that both
hickory and bard cider begin with the let
ter h, and that both are hard, and hence
by an ingenious analogy, conclude that if
General Jackson, under The appellatinn of
"old hickory" became President of the
United States, Harrison will infalibly
succeed by being called the "hard cider
candidate
There is, doubtless, much virtue in hard
cider, but it is worthy of inquiry whether
it will impart the proper qualifications for
the Presidency, even to him who drinks it
most diligently. Coffee" says Pope,
- Coffee makes the politician wise
Aud see through all things with bis half shut
eyes,"
Hath hard cider not only similar but far
superior potency? Can you make a
statesman out of a BARRIERS block by put
ting it inlo a pickle of hard cider1
I'VE are told by Ovid that Medea res
tored Eson, her husband, when in the
last stage of decay and decrepitude, to
youth, strength and beauty, by filling his
body with The punsent juices Of herbs.
Fessenden has thus versifed his account
of the process:
"Medea cut the withered weasand
fsuperannuated Eson,
Then filled him up with acrd juices
Ofncttletops and fower-de-luces,
When, from the dcfnnct carcase, To-!
Started u dashing Bondstreet beau"
Could she have performed the same feat
with hard cider? Can we take
-- foolish fond old man;
Nlole sinned against, than shining
such as we believe Harrison 10 be, and by
soaking him in hard cider. transform him
into a Nestor, subllest of men, The wisest
as we'll as the oldest warrior Of the camp,
whose faculties have only been made keen
er by age! Has hard cider the property
attributed by FastalI' to sherris sack, and
ascending into the brain," or to use more
familiar phrase, getting into the head of
the Wing candidate for The Presidency,
has it I" dried there all the foolish, aud
crudy varours which environ it? These
are important questions, and must not be
pre,crmitted by The Wing party, if they
intend 10 found the pre,ensions of their
candidate upon the fact Of his drinking
hafd cider.
But even allowing the habit Of drinking
hard cider to be thus beneficial 10 the in-
tellect, We have our doubts whether some
thing more is not required in President.
Is that accomplishment a sufIicien, offset
against a set Of principles dangerous to
the public liberty and peace? Is it not
possible that Harrison, with his mind cul-
tiva,ed and strengthened by the drinking
of hard cider, may yet propose or assent
to bad measures and follow pernicious
system OF policy
Is il worth while, for The sake ofpromo-
ting TO the Presidency, a man who drinks
hard cider, 10 allow Mr.. Clay and his par
,y to govern the country according TO their
plans Is it worth while TO go back to
the burdens Of high tariff and costly
system Of internal improvement; to res
tore the pernicious union Of Bank and
State, receive deprecated bank notes for
public dues, aud tax the people 10 make
up The deficiency; 10 pay out of the Fed
eral Treasury the enormous debts which
the States, when their Legislatures were
under the control of the Spectators, con-
lracted with the London stockholders; 10
place in power set of men whose policy
Il is to accumulate power and patronage
in the Central Government, and thus de.
compose our democratic system; is it
worth while to do all this for the sake of a
hard cider candidate? We acknowledge