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  WILLIAM HENRY- HARRISON - Fall, 1840 -

ST. LOUIS MISSOURI

[A description of a plan for a campaign parade for presidential candidate William H. Harrison (Old Tippicanoe)

MUSIC; BRASS BAND.

1. Banner, borne by farmers from the northern part of St. Louis township, This banner represented the "Raising of the Siege of Fort Meigs" and bore as its motto. "It has Pleased providence, We are Victorious"

2. Officers and members of the Tippecanoe club, preceded by the President, Col. John O'Fallon, with a splendid banner, representing a hemisphere surmounted by an American eagle, strangling With his beak a serpent, its fold grasped within its talons, and its head having the face of a fox in the throes of death.

3. Log cabin committee, six abreast.

4. The president and vice presidents of the day. (local dignitaries)

5. Soldiers who served under Harrison in the late WAR in a car, adorned with banners on both sides a view of a steamboat named Tippecanoe, with a sign board, 'For Washington City".

6. Invited guests in carriages.

7. Citizens on foot, six abreast, bearing banners inscribed, 'Harrison, the Friend of Pre-emption Rights', 'One term for the Presidency", Harrison, the People's Candidate", Harrison - the People's Sober Second Thought"; Harrison : He Never Lost a Battle"; "Harrison, the Protector of the Pioneers of the West"; "Harrison, Tyler and Reform"; 'Harrison, the Poor Man's Friend"; "Harrison, the Friend of Equal Laws and Equal Rights".

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