The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-02-16
soNGs.-.s SING US A GOOD SONG"

CONUO.~-~ ClNU Oc - YOOO CONO.
Our opponents mako great ado about Wing
songs. We cannot blame them. for we arc sure
they feel their force. An argument which can
De set to music is one that can be understood
equally as well by the poor man as the prince,
and is therefore equally adapted to the cottage
and the magsion. 1t is an argument that appeals
to the heart,-to the logic of which the under
standing assents. 1t is an argument which can
aot be answered, and hence, we suppose, the rea-
son why our opponents show so much temper
when they hear them. Those who sing are gen.
orally merry and good-natured, and he who has
good nature, good humor, and the laugh on his
side, has always the best of the argument.
But our opponents, while railing at our songs,
sometimes attemp: to write and sing songs them
selves. Their singing, however, is like the laugh
ing Of the hyena, full Of spite and malice. Now,
the MUSES., like all other amiable and beautiful
young ladies', 1--WE have no sold ladies'" in this
country except witches, and the editors Of the
Globe and Richmond Enquirer,) avoid spitefu
md il-natured people, and hence when our op-
ponents attempt to write songs they make sucL
aorrid work of it.
I, We have lately come across song Of this
Kind in "the Plunderers' Democratic Union,'
published at Harrisburg, by Mckinley, Patterson,
Lescure & Bratton, (who formed the famous
Coalition to plumber the State Of Pennsylvania
~ means of the public printing! and we copy q
single stanza as specimen Of the whole:
"Then down with the banner
Of poor Harry Clay,
Who concoals what he thinks
In the Harrison way;
For we know that cen Caesar
Cared as little for Rome
As demagogue Clay
For the land Of his home,
Or even the lads who in 40 got blue,
And voted, like cattle, for TippecanOe."
We do not think comment at all necessary
Mr.. Clay is so much in the habit Of concealing
Dhat he thinks " in the HARRISON ,ooy" that we
AVE nothing to say. As to those who /" in 40
rot blue, and voted, like cattle, for Tppecanoe,'
is Harrison received l,274,2O3, Gone million tw,
hundred and seventy -four thousand two hundred
md three votes,) or l45,900 more than were cast
or Mr.. Van Buren, there must have been moro
'bluc" people in the United States, and more
Who were like cattle" than were ever before
cen in any country. We had supposed that the
emperance societies had been productive of goo,
this country but it would seem from the as
ertors Of the Locos, constantly reiterated b,
he Globe and kindred papers, that intemperanc,
I'D spead further and wider, and had becoIn
lore universal in 1910 than at any former perio
Il the history of man! Do the propagators Q
och base falsehoods and libels upon the grea
lass Of the people of the United States expec
be believed? Perhaps go as they know thos'
HON they address will swallow and believe any
ing they tell them, however absurd false, ain
Improbable.
One more remark. We hope our opponent
VII go on writing songs: such as the above ar
.st the thing, and we are willing to lend our al
circulate them: they will do (Us) immens
,od But there is one other we would be gla
ey would write, namely: song upon Mar1l
IAN Buren,. Can't they work him into rhym
some way! Is there nothing poetical abou
lin! Nothing that will rhyme with his name
nut "ruin!'' We hope they will try.