GDG- 1840 campaign - Whigs attack in song and print

[Dennis Lawrence]

Friday, February 28, 1840.
Springfield, IL.
	
	Whig committee, Lincoln, Henry, Barrett, Baker, and Speed, say they will 
superintend "The Old Soldier," but all good Whigs are its editors, and 
those who fought under Harrison are asked to write their views. Democrats 
object to Whigs organizing, but, says their committee, "We will meet, 
conquer and disperse Gen. Harrison's and the Countries enemies!
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Annotation
  "The Old Soldier,"  was Whig campaign newspaper, of which Lincoln is one 
of five editors

Songs of the Whigs with sound files

Tippecanoe Song Book.  Philadelphia: Marshall, Williams and Butler, 1840.

   http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/Songs/tippecanoe.html

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Friday, Feb. 28 1862

Gen. George McClellan had two nicknames. "Little Mac" referred merely to 
his stature. "Slow Mac", on the other hand, was of more military 
importance. Today Lincoln had to write a note asking why Mac was not moving 
on Harper's Ferry, Va. Writing quickly , at any rate, McClellan explained 
that the bridges were down, and he needed pontoons to build new ones. The 
boats carrying the pontoons, alas, were too big to get through the locks on 
the Potomac River.