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[HARRISON CAMPAIGN]

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[HARRISON CAMPAIGN]
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[HARRISON CAMPAIGN] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>A ‘Tippecanoe Raisin’ At St. Louis</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'><BR><BR>William Henry Harrison supporter Francis T. Hurd writes to an attorney friend regarding campaign strategy. ALS, 2½pp, 4to, Maysville, [KY], May 29, 1840. Excellent political content. After a discussion of family matters, Hurd writes in part, “...<i>I received your papers with the glowing description of your ‘Tippecanoe Raisin’ at St. Louis and was much gratified to see that Missouri was in motion. One grand effort in Missouri will redeem him. Raise a log cabin at every Courthouse; form Tippacanoe Clubs, get all the Harrison songs and sing them at all of your public gatherings...The Tippecanoe clubs meet once in two weeks. They take their song books with them, sing songs and have a speech or two and the affair goes off nice. All attend of both parties...We have a band of music that meets once every week to practice, at which time they sing and play the most favorite Harrison songs. The Loco’s have not nerve enough to stand good music...we shall mingle like the waters, and the present Van Buren party will be lost in the mixture. We shall find no trace of them in two years</i>...” Light general toning; occasional light foxing; tiny fold perforations on last page; ow/ VG.</span></p>