The North-Carolina standard., 1841-02-10
THE REAL NATURE OF A FEDERAL
LOG CARIN


The true character of log cabin excitement
will be understood from the following advertise
ments. We take them from New York news
paper: the latter will be seen is signed by the
honest Wing sheriff, Mr.. Acker. who attempt
ed totake by violence from the Recorders court,
the Glentworth papers. produced In evidence be-
fore IT, This was in the very spirit Of Govet-
nor ST wards late hardy proposition to the Whig
Senate, to drive the Judge from the bench who
dared to bring those evidences into Court, TO
show the guilt of those who laVished the i'm
mehse sum expended in purchasing counterfeit
voters to carry the election in New York. Ac.
ker's attempt was to illustrate justice by running
of with the documentary proof Gov. Seward
would detera judges from the investigation of
Wing crime. by Furnishing the Judge who ven.
iured TO open theif own vouchers which proved
it. r-77 = - -.
B 1t to the contents of the log cabin which
Whigery set up and furnished opposite 'the
Washington parade" Here is invitation 10 "the
st' oller" who is called in to take the bounty and
enlist under the Tippecanoe banner:
"The Tippecanoe log cabin OF the l5h Ward,
in McDougal street. fronting the Washington
Parade Ground. between Barrow and Fourth
Streets is now finished and prepared with ample
accommodations, for the use and comfort OF good
Tips and other visitors. If sound hatd cider,
good liquors, and good segars, with COO! shell
ter, and delightful walk and prospect in front
be any inducement to the stroller, the subscriber
will often be called upon. He is sure his old
friends and neighbors will often visit him in his
log cabin. The military at their parades will
look in to catch the spirit of the old tfero of Tip
pecanoe."
The Sergeant Kites who kip, those rend,z.
vous, were we'll supplied out of the funds OF
Whigery with temptations to draw in "thc stroll.
ter'' during the period of the recruiting service.
When that was over, the partys interest in the
establishment ceased, and then comes Sheriff
Acker with his f ia. and sells out the concern:
"SHERIFF's SALE.-By virtue of writ of
feiTi taci0s to me directed and delivered, l will
expose to sale, on the 18th Gay OF August. inst.
at 10 o'clock, a. IN. at the log cabin, in McDou.
gal street. quantity of all kinds of liquors
wines, segars, &c.
JACOB ACKER, Sheriff"
We noe this simply that the nation may have
the official exhibit, under Whig Sheriffs hand.
of the interior OF Federal log cabin. The ex.
:erOr, we all know. was every where adorned
with coon skins. goards. and the insignia Of hus-
bandry. The inside, we now see, was a recep-
tacle filled with "a quantity of all kinds OF liquors.
wines. cigars" &c. ..
What prostitution this Of the emblem of the
home OF The American farmrr The real log
cabin is The scene of domestic industry and the
sound of the spinning wheel. and the frrside
mirth of happy childhood. are heard from with.
n
The Federal log cabin is hled "nOiA all kind
of liquors, 1Oimcs, cigars" &c. under the sign of
ha:d cider; aud riot, and the shouting Of TIppe.
canoe songs by the strolters. who "g0 in TO catch
The spirit Of tie old hero" are the only noises
which issue from this counterfeit of the dwelling
of vir.ucus farmers family. 1t is no more what
it would seem to be. than our Federal Senators
the friends of the log cabin tenants. while vo.
ting them out of their little improvements, to dis
tribute their lands to pay British interest State
debts. GEO6e