yer
member from Michigan had acquired from reading _Tidd's Practice_
and _Espinasse's Nisi Prius_, studies so happily adapted to the
art of war, the House fairly roared with delight.

He drew a mirth-provoking picture of Crary in his capacity of a
militia brigadier at the head of his legion on parade day, with
his "crop-eared, bushy-tailed mare and sickle hams--the steed that
laughs at the shaking of the spear, and whose neck was clothed with
thunder," and likened Crary to Alexander the Great with his war-
horse, Bucephalus, at the head of his Macedonian phalanx.

He traced all the characteristic exploits of the assembled throng
on those old-time mustering occasions. The wretched diversity in
height and build of the marshaled hosts; the wild assortment of
accoutrements, from the ancient battle-ax to the modern broom-stick,
the trooping boys, the slovenly girls, the mock enthusiasm of the
spectators, all were painted with a master's hand. Finally, after
reciting Crary's deeds of valor and labor during the training day,
Corwin left him and his exhausted troop at a corner grocery assuaging
the fires of their souls with copious draughts of whisky drank from
the shells of slaughtered watermelons. When Mr. Corwin came to
give the history of General Harrison and defend his military record,
he rose to the height of pure eloquence, and spoke with convincing
force and unanswerable logic. The fate of Crary was sealed.
Probably no such personal discomfiture was ever known from the
effect of a single speech. He never recovered from the blow, and
was known at home and abroad as "the late General Crary." Even at
home the farmers and the boys, in watermelon season, would always
offer him the fruit with sly jests and jeers and a joke at his
military career; but his public life and usefulness were at an end.

In May, 1840, there was received at Washington the initial number
of _The Log Cabin_, a campaign paper published at New York by Horace
Greeley. It was printed at the office of the _New Yorker_, then
edited by Mr. Greeley, on a thin super-royal sheet, and the price
for twenty-eight weekly issues was fifty cents for a single copy--
larger numbers much less. It contained a few illustrations bearing
on the election, plans of General Harrison's battle-grounds, and
campaign songs set to music.

Mr. Greeley's paper was recommended to leading Whigs at Washington
by Thurlow Weed, and he obtained eighty thousand subscribers, the