Lithograph print, 25. 4 x 30 cm. Description from library of congress: a whig campaign print, showing william henry harrison greeting a wounded veteran before a log cabin by a river. The cabin flies an american flag with the words “harrison & tyler” and with a liberty cap on its staff. A coonskin is tacked to the side of the cabin, two barrels of hard cider stand by, and a farmer ploughs a field in the distance. The text below the image describes the scene: this log cabin was the first building erected on the north bend of the beautiful ohio river, with the barrel of cider outside and the door always open to the traveller. The wounded soldier is one of “gen. Harrison's comrades,” meeting him after his celebrated victory of tippecanoe and not only does the brave old hero give his comrade a hearty welcome, but his dog recognizes him as an old acquaintance, and repeats the welcome by a cordial and significant shake of his tail! if the looker-on will only watch close enough he can see the tail absolutely shake in the picture, particularly on a clear day, and if it is held due east and west, so, as to feel the power of the magnetic attraction “from the great west. ” the closing statement is a reference to harrison's broad base of support in the western united states. Date: 1840.
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