 | John Bach McMaster - United States - 1906 - 720 pages
...Speech of Charles Ogle, April 16,1840, National Intelligencer, July '25, 1840. ( The Log Cabin Song; " Let Van from his coolers of silver drink wine, And...the plain, honest husbandman true, And this be our motto—the motto of Fate, ventions, march in procession, go to monster mass-meetings, harvest-homes,... | |
 | Meade Minnigerode - Theater - 1924 - 414 pages
...breathless Democrats pointed out. "Do tell!" the Whigs exclaimed, and were off again with the left foot — "Let Van from his coolers of silver drink wine, And...motto, the motto of fate, Hurrah for old Tippecanoe!" The Democrats tried a new tack. "Keep it before the people," they thundered, "that General Harrison... | |
 | Robert Granville Caldwell - United States - 1925 - 576 pages
...pointing out the contrast between the two candidates, even though these contrasts were largely apocryphal: "Let Van from his coolers of silver drink wine, And...bench can recline, Content with hard cider is he! " Doubtless, not good poetry, but excellent politics! On inauguration day, March 4, 1841, the new President... | |
 | Robert Granville Caldwell - United States - 1925 - 578 pages
...out the contrast between the two candidates, even though these contrasts were largely apocryphal : "Let Van from his coolers of silver drink wine, And...bench can recline, Content with hard cider is he! " Doubtless, not good poetry, but excellent politics! On inauguration day, March 4, 1841, the new President... | |
 | Meade Minnigerode - Presidents - 1928 - 466 pages
...receives a clear income of six thousand dollars a year in fees"— the Whigs had already begun to sing. "Let Van from his coolers of silver drink wine, And...motto, the motto of fate, Hurrah for old Tippecanoe!" The Log Cabin, Hard Cider campaign was under way, and once the Whigs had begun to sing they never stopped;... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 884 pages
...Cabin and Hard Cider" candidate, a virtuous man of modesty, simplicity, frugality, and common decency. Let Van from his coolers of silver drink wine, And...bench can recline. Content with hard cider is he. 3. Clay to John M. Clayton, May 29, 1 840, in Clay, Papers, IX, 416. So sang the Whigs. And it got... | |
 | Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 340 pages
...in the audience, appalled Finney. The "Hard Cider" slogan of the Harrison campaign was even worse. Let Van from his coolers of silver drink wine, And lounge on his cushioned settee, Our man on a buckeye bench can recline, Content with hard cider is he. Log cabins built as campaign headquarters... | |
 | Richard K. Scher - Political Science - 1997 - 232 pages
...common-man touch (in contrast to Van Buren), such as the following verse: Let Van from his collers of silver drink wine, And lounge on his cushioned settee, Our man on a buckeye bench can recline, Content with hard cider is he.23 Large balls — eight to ten feet in... | |
 | Philip Davies - Political Science - 1999 - 258 pages
...or more. Meanwhile, Harrison's supporters could sing from the first printed political song sheets: Let Van from his coolers of silver drink wine And...bench can recline. Content with hard cider is he. The Democrats attempted to undermine the Harrison appeal by revealing that he lived in a 'magnificent... | |
 | Clayton Anderson Coppin, Jack C. High - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 238 pages
...raise strawberries and cauliflower for his table. Cummings includes this verse from a campaign song: Let Van from his coolers of silver drink wine, And...on his buckeye bench can recline Content with hard cidar is he. 24. Elizabeth Ewen, Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars: Life and Culture on the Lower... | |
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Let Van from his coolers of silver drink wine, And lounge on his cushioned settee, Our man on his buckeye bench can recline, Content with hard cider is he. Then a shout for each freeman, a shout for each State, To the plain, honest husbandman true, And... 
