The Calhoun and Van Buren factions of the Democratic party in Georgia have been quarrelling about their late defeat, each charging the other with being the cause. They may as well have contented themselves with the true cause, namely — the magic name of “H E N R Y C L A Y,” and the noble and patriotic principles of the WhigContinue reading “Georgia On My Mind”
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It’s All the Newspapers’ Fault
DIALOGUE BETWEEN A WHIG AND LOCO FOCO. Loco. I am opposed to the British tariff. Whig. So am I, for it taxes our wheat, flour, beef, pork and every thing else that we attempt to sell in England. Loco. How is that? My paper tells me that it is the Whigs that go inContinue reading “It’s All the Newspapers’ Fault”
The Whigs Didn’t like Jackson Either
WHIG QUODLIBET As sung by the Philadelphia Clay Minstrels. Oh Polk! Oh Polk! Don’t you know you’ll end in smoke! For up Salt River you must go Polk! And the way you’ll go up won’t be slow Polk! Oh Polk! Oh Polk! Don’t you know you’ll end in smoke! You may run and your friendsContinue reading “The Whigs Didn’t like Jackson Either”
Brand New Song, Same Old Tune
A NEW SONG.TUNE— “Old Rosin the Bow“ The story we’ll tell you’s surprisin,’But then you will find it no joke;The Locos who wish’d to take poison,Have determined at last to take (poke) Polk,Have determined, &c. The most of them swallow’d Van Buren,But found him too little to choke —Large doses of Cass they did pourContinue reading “Brand New Song, Same Old Tune”
Whig Thunder
Air — What has caused this agitation. Oh what has caused all this Whig thunder, thunder, thunder,That now is risin’?The nomination by the WhigsOf Harry Clay and Frelinghuysen,Of Harry Clay and Frelinghuysen,For with them we can beat any man, man, man,Of the Polk and Dallas clan,For with them we can beat any man. The LocosContinue reading “Whig Thunder”
JAMES D. MACDONALD 