{"id":279,"date":"2012-04-23T18:54:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T18:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359\/?p=279"},"modified":"2012-05-08T03:12:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T03:12:23","slug":"tippacanoe-and-tyler-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/hist359\/1840\/tippacanoe-and-tyler-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Tippacanoe and Tyler Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"For Harrison.dv\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4AP9l4lofo4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Herr<\/p>\n<p>For Harrison<\/p>\n<p>In many ways, the 1840 election was a transitionary campaign, combining many of the hallmarks of older presidential elections and of\u00a0 \u201cmodern\u201d campaigns in America. The campaign was \u201cboisterous\u201d and such a break from the past that John Quincy Adams described it as \u201ca revolution of the habits and manners of the people.\u201d<a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn1\"><sup><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a><!--more--> The presidential election was no longer reserved for the rich, \u201cenlightened statesmen\u201d of the early republic, but candidates now had to do as Jackson had done: the must sell themselves to the people. Thanks to more liberal suffrage laws and technological innovations like the newspaper printing press and US Postal Service, the election was accessible to new portions of the population. Harrison\u2019s campaign managers sought to capitalize on all of this and the presidential race became a battle between the man-of-the-people Harrison and the aristocratic Van Buren. Harrison\u2019s campaign actively tried to paint Harrison as a backwoods, straight-shooting, cider-drinking war hero. Although he was actually from a wealthy, slave-holding family in Virginia, Harrison\u2019s campaign managers turned an insult\u2013\u2013that he was \u201ca provincial, out-of-touch old man who would rather \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Log_cabin_campaign\">sit in his log cabin drinking hard cider<\/a>\u2019\u201d than run the country\u2013\u2013into a campaign that appealed to the majority of the population.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftn2\"><sup><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harrison\u2019s camp learned mass marketing techniques from the preachers of the Second Great Awakening, and used those techniques to galvanize the population and to sell Harrison to the public. Songs, slogans, attack ads, rallies, and noticeably, stumping all became part of the election. Harrison parades resembled camp revival meetings, except rather than drinking the Holy Spirit, revelers drank hard cider, and sermons and hymns, were replaced by campaign speeches and campaign songs. So that they wouldn\u2019t alienate the \u201ctemperate\u201d Harrison\u2019s campaign also provided sweet cider. Harrison was given a variety of nicknames and slogans, some reminiscent of the log cabin and hard cider comment, but many referring to his victory at Tippecanoe. The most common was the ubiquitous \u201cTippecanoe and Tyler Too!\u201d which came from a campaign song of the same name. \u201cTippecanoe and Tyler Too!\u201d became the inspiration for my campaign video.<\/p>\n<p>The driving force of this video is the song itself. One of the most popular and most remembered campaign slogans and songs, the song captures the spirit of the campaign and\u2013\u2013I think many of my classmates will agree\u2013\u2013it\u2019s undeniably catchy. I quickly realized how difficult it would be to incorporate large quotes like had in my previous video, so I tried to coordinate images with the song\u2019s lyrics. The opening shot is the front page of a newspaper that has both Harrison\u2019s and Tyler\u2019s name on it, and sets the stage for the rest of the ad. This is followed by a quote from the <em>Times-Picayune <\/em>of New Orleans. I chose to highlight the word \u201cmotion\u201d to complement the song. A painting of a young General Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe follows. I chose this painting because I wanted to remind viewers of Harrison\u2019s service, the source of his nickname, and to contrast him with the decidedly un-heroic Van Buren. The <em>Times-Picayune <\/em>page appears again, but in a more zoned out format. I included \u201cball\u201d in this shot to coordinate with the song, but also because the Harrison\u2019s campaign actually included large balls of twine, paper and wood that they would literally roll down the streets during parades. Next, I chose portraits of Tippecanoe,\u00a0 Tyler and Van Buren that appeared in conjunction with the song. Immediately before Van Buren\u2019s portrait, \u201cCutting Down the Hickory Tree &amp; Disturbing the Crow\u2019s Nest,\u201d a political cartoon from Harper\u2019s appears. The cartoon depicts a strapping Harrison chopping down a hickory tree (Jackson\u2019s legacy) with a Van Buren-crow falling out. After Van Buren\u2019s portrait another cartoon of Van Buren smiling at a glass of champagne and frowning at one of hard cider\u2013\u2013another dig at his supposed aristocratic character. The next political cartoon is \u201cThe North Bend Farmer and His Visitors.\u201d Harrison is the plain-spoken farmer talking to his frontier followers, once again in contrast to Van Buren and his cronies. This is followed by another political cartoon, again depicting Harrison as the normal backwoods man with a log cabin and hard cider. The front page of the first edition of Horace Greeley\u2019s <em>Log Cabin <\/em>newspaper which was created to further Harrison\u2019s campaign came next, followed by a campaign poster circulated by Harrison\u2019s followers. The images appear again as the chorus repeats, and is immediately followed by another portrait of General Harrison. The ad ends with a campaign painting that says \u201cTip &amp; Ty\u201d with another campaign song overlying the image.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">\u00a0Bibliography<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0 Boller, Paul F. Jr. Presidential Campaigns. (New York: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984)<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0 Campaign Poster of William Henry Harrison (New York\u00a0: Published by N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856]) Found at:<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:WmHHarrison-campaign_poster.jpg\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:WmHHarrison-campaign_poster.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/loc.harpweek.com\/LCPoliticalCartoons\/IndexDisplayCartoonMedium.asp?SourceIndex=People&amp;IndexText=Harrison%2C+William+Henry&amp;UniqueID=13&amp;Year=1840\">\u201cCutting Down the Hickory Tree &amp; Disturbing the Crow\u2019s Nest.\u201d Found at: http:\/\/loc.harpweek.com\/LCPoliticalCartoons\/IndexDisplayCartoonMedium.asp?SourceIndex=People&amp;IndexText=Harrison%2C+William+Henry&amp;UniqueID=13&amp;Year=1840<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0 Dacre, Henry; Robinson, Henry R. \u201cThe North Bend Farmer and His Visitors.\u201d (N.Y. ; Washington, D.C. : Printed &amp; published by H.R. Robinson, 1840.) Found at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2008661371\/\">http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2008661371\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>5)\u00a0 Greely, H. &amp; Co. The Log Cabin. Vol. 1, Number 1. 2 May 1840. Found at: <a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.williams.edu\/wm\/mail\/fetch.html?urlid=g0fd086d6c73052d56d84695ccbf599407kijgpdhal&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Flibrary.duke.edu%2Frubenstein%2Fscriptorium%2Famericavotes%2Fharrison-log-cabin.jpeg\">http:\/\/library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/scriptorium\/americavotes\/harrison-log-cabin.jpeg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>6)\u00a0 \u201cJohn Tyler, Ninth President of the United States.\u201d (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA) Found at: <a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.williams.edu\/wm\/mail\/fetch.html?urlid=g0fd086d6c73052d56d84695ccbf599407kijgpdhal&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fpictures%2Fresource%2Fcph.3b50589%2F\">http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/resource\/cph.3b50589\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>7)\u00a0 Ross, Alexander Coffman, \u201cTippecanoe and Tyler Too\u201d (singer unknown). Found at:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sxf5dTL3sg0\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sxf5dTL3sg0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>8)\u00a0 <em>Times-Picayune<\/em>, published as <em>The Daily Picayune<\/em>.;<strong> <\/strong>29 August 1840; <strong>Page: <\/strong>2; <strong>Location: <\/strong>New Orleans, Louisiana<a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.williams.edu\/wm\/mail\/fetch.html?urlid=g0fd086d6c73052d56d84695ccbf599407kijgpdhal&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Finfoweb.newsbank.com%2Fiw-search%2Fwe%2FHistArchive%2F%3Fp_product%3DEANX%26p_theme%3Dahnp%26p_nbid%3DC46V46SBMTMzMzU4OTI4MC43MDMxNjQ6MToxNDoxMzcuMTY1LjI3LjEzOQ%26p_action%3Ddoc%26s_lastnonissuequeryname%3D5%26d_viewref%3Dsearch%26p_queryname%3D5%26p_docnum%3D4%26p_docref%3Dv2%3A1223BCE5B718A166%40EANX-1224715A6AB401C0%402393347-1223D2FDD942B878%401-124FB3E7A59B5D96%40\">. http:\/\/infoweb.newsbank.com\/iw-search\/we\/HistArchive\/?p_product=EANX&amp;p_theme=ahnp&amp;p_nbid=C46V46SBMTMzMzU4OTI4MC43MDMxNjQ6MToxNDoxMzcuMTY1LjI3LjEzOQ&amp;p_action=doc&amp;s_lastnonissuequeryname=5&amp;d_viewref=search&amp;p_queryname=5&amp;p_docnum=4&amp;p_docref=v2:1223BCE5B718A166@EANX-1224715A6AB401C0@2393347-1223D2FDD942B878@1-124FB3E7A59B5D96@<\/a>[William+Henry+Harrison]<\/p>\n<p>9)\u00a0 \u201cTip &amp; Ty\u201d Political Banner. Found at: <a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.williams.edu\/wm\/mail\/fetch.html?urlid=g0fd086d6c73052d56d84695ccbf599407kijgpdhal&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fb%2Fba%2FTip_and_Ty_banner.jpg\">http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/ba\/Tip_and_Ty_banner.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u201cUntitled Harrison &amp; Tyler Campaign Poster.\u201d HarpWeek. Accessed 3 April 2012. Found at: <a href=\"http:\/\/loc.harpweek.com\/LCPoliticalCartoons\/IndexDisplayCartoonMedium.asp?SourceIndex=People&amp;IndexText=Harrison%2C+William+Henry&amp;UniqueID=1&amp;Year=1840\">http:\/\/loc.harpweek.com\/LCPoliticalCartoons\/IndexDisplayCartoonMedium.asp?SourceIndex=People&amp;IndexText=Harrison%2C+William+Henry&amp;UniqueID=1&amp;Year=1840<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Van Buren Political Cartoon. Found at: <a href=\"https:\/\/webmail.williams.edu\/wm\/mail\/fetch.html?urlid=g0fd086d6c73052d56d84695ccbf599407kijgpdhal&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vahistorical.org%2Felections%2Fvanburen.jpg\">http:\/\/www.vahistorical.org\/elections\/vanburen.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" \/>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref1\"><sup><sup>[1]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a> Boller, p. 65<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ftnref2\"><sup><sup>[2]<\/sup><\/sup><\/a> Wikipedia. \u201cElection of 1840.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Herr For Harrison In many ways, the 1840 election was a transitionary campaign, combining many of the hallmarks of older presidential elections and of\u00a0 \u201cmodern\u201d campaigns in America. 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