Federal-Abolition-Whig trap,catch votes,W Harrison,1840

Title: Federal-Abolition-Whig trap, to catch voters in
Date Created/Published: New Orleans : [s.n.], 1840.
Summary: An illustrated anti-Whig broadside, designed to combat the 'Log Cabin campaign' tactics of presidential candidate William Henry Harrison. The text warns the people of New Orleans of Whig election propaganda: 'People of Louisiana, above you have an accurate representation of the federal 'Log-Cabin' Trap, invented by the 'bank-parlor, Ruffle-shirt, silk-stocking' Gentry, for catching the 'votes' of the industrious and laboring classes, of our citizens, of both town and country. . . . The 'log cabin' is raised to blind you with the belief, that they are your friends . . .' The author then goes on to describe Whig campaign techniques as relying on deception, alcohol, and visual enticements, and as an 'appeal to [the people's] passions, with mockeries, humbugs, shows, and parades. . . .' In the illustration a man sucks at a barrel of 'Hard Cider' linked by a trip-rod to a precariously tilted log cabin. Above is the 'Federal Bank Whig Motto. We Stoop to Conquer.'
Notes:
Title appears as it is written on the item.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1840-24.
Subjects:
Harrison, William Henry,--1773-1841.
Employment--1840.
Log cabins--1840.
New Orleans (La.)--1840.
Hard cider (Harrison campaign symbol)
Broadsides--1840.
Woodcuts--1840.
Bookmark /2008661363/
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