1 g-cabins wore built in different states.and
Mint on m?n:on:i:y tours. Long poles would
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THE WEEKLY ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY., JULY 3, 1888.
foundation the cabin, a counterpart of the one
in which Harrison lived, would be built.
To tho wagon would be attached horses
representing every state in the union. In tho
cabin would be seated ladies and gentlemen,
dressed in home-made goods, witli cups in
hand, and drinking occasionally tho hard cider
which they would draw from the keg in sight.
As this novel procession would start along the
country roads, it would be followed by crowds
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of people, until at last thousands would bo in
the procession, when a halt would be made,
and the stump speakers would display an
eloquence which has now quite gone out of
date.
To describe the excesses and enthusiasm of
that day is impossible. Ono one occasion, in
Tennessee, Parson Brownlow straddled the
roof of a cabin while on its journey, with a
coonskln in one hand, which ho was pretend
ing to eat, and in tho other a cupfull of hard
cider. When asked what be was doing he
replied, in a blasphemous vein? that he was
partaking of tire whig sacrament. Whenever
tho procession would reach a place whore
there was but a wagon track in tho woods,
hundreds of mon with axes would cut away
the trees so that the cabin might passthrough.
