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STORY OF ANOTHER PIONEER BY C. B. STEBBINS
June 7, 1882.
He got us into line, and cried out: "Right dress! Left dress!
He got us into line, and cried out: "Eight dress! Left dress! Eight face!" I presume about as many turned one way as_the other, and he repeated the
order: "Eight face; d------n you! Don't you know your right face?" He
wore an old style military hat that gave his face no protection from the sun, and before night his forehead was a complete blister. He was a staunch Democrat, but supported Harrison from personal friendship. After the campaign he returned to his first love and lived and died in the Democratic fold.,
Later in the season we went to a great Whig meeting at Detroit. Our route was to Toledo, and thence by boat. We were entertained two nights by the Whigs of Detroit. The stand was down the river on the Jones farm—now a compact portion of the city. As we marched down, the rain was falling, in torrents, and the cry was: "Any rain but the reign of Van Buren. " In trying to walk in General Jackson's shoes, "Little Matty Van" could hardly be called a success. I do not think the leading Democrats were satisfied with him, but the party was mortgaged to Gen. Jackson, and having, at his behest, elected Van Buren once, consistency demanded that they should nominate him for a second term.
When we reached Toledo on our return, we found that Col Johnson, the Democratic candidate for Vice President, had just arrived from Adrian, and was on the boat soon to leave for Detroit. The Democratic papers had declared that Gen. Harrison deserved no credit for the victory at the battle of the Thames, but that Col. Johnson was the real hero.
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