Excerpt from Political Recollections, 1840 to 1872 The Hard-cider Frolic of 1840 - The Issues - Swartwout and Political Corruption - The Demand for a Change - Character of Gen. Harrison - Personal Defamation - Mass-meetings and Songs - Crushing Defeat of the Democrats - First Appear ance of the Slavery Issue in Politics - Pro-slavery Attitude of Harrison and Van Buren - Events favoring the Growth of Anti-slavery Opinion - Clay and Mendenhall - Texas' Annex ation and John Tyler, I 1 - 29. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.