This was the picturesque political campaign of 1840, in which it was said that Gen. W. H. Harrison lived in a log cabin and drank hard cider. See Appendix, XXX. and XXXI.
1840. The Harrisburg Chronicle (Nov.) states that the first log cabin of the campaign was displayed in that town, on the transparency, Jan. 20, 1840.
1840. Goody Harrison, a gossiping old lady, and an available, who lives on a sinecure clerkship in a city, but is pretended to be a farmer living in a log cabin, and drinking hard cider.—Cong. Globe, March 6.
1841. An electioneering pageant or procession could not be gotten up, nor regarded as complete, unless a log cabin formed a part. Hence we saw them placed on wheels and drawn by triple teams through the streets of our cities.—Mr. C. C. Clay of Alabama, U.S. Senate, Jan. 15: Cong. Globe, p. 82, App.
1842. General Harrison lives in a log-cabin, and drinks sour cider.—‘Locofoco Paper,’ cited by J. S. Buckingham, ‘The Eastern and Western States of America,’ i. 505.
1884. When he [Harrison] settled in the country ’coons were of course numerous, but who it was who grouped together the log cabin, hard cider, and ’coons as the battle-cry of the party remains and ever will remain a mystery.—Shields, ‘Life of Prentiss,’ p. 299.
