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Identifier: magazineofamericv11stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON. reelection. He had become President, because the Democratic policy wasin favor with the country; but his term had scarcely begun before theparty lost the popular favor, not through any act of his own—for he hadas yet had no time to do anything—and he was never able to recover theposition. The campaign of 1840 was an affair of political songs and catch-words. ioS 0UR TWENTY-ONE PRESIDENTS
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L-1 I«4I-1045. OUR TWENTY-ONE PRESIDENTS IO9 which secured the presidency for Jackson. Harrison, like Jackson, hadan attractive reputation for military achievements, and, like Jackson, hewas a man of the people. The Democratic impulse was not confined tothe Democratic party. It was equally strong among the Whigs, now thatthe policy of the Democrats was under censure. It seized upon the home-liness of Harrisons life, the humbleness of his surroundings, and the plain-ness of his manners, and gloried in them. Demos found in the Whig can-didate another representative of itself, whose achievements were honorableto the people, and it made him President, as it had made Jackson Presi-dent before. Harrison had no administration. The office-holders worried him todeath in a month, and the Vice-president, Tyler, succeeded him. It is curiously illustrative of what has been said about the absence ofthought from the campaign of 1840, that in choosing their Vice-president,whose election to that offi

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