t last the magazine was exploded with due regard to dramatic
effect. Carefully prepared statements, supported by affidavits,
were simultaneously published in different parts of the country,
showing that a man named Glentworth had been employed by some
leading New York Whigs in 1838 to procure illegal votes from
Philadelphia. The men were ostensibly engaged in laying pipe for
the introduction of Croton water.

Messrs. Grinnell, Blatchford, Wetmore, Draper, and other leading
New York Whigs implicated promptly published affidavits denying
that they had ever employed Glentworth to supply New York with Whig
voters from Philadelphia. It was proven, however, that he had
received money and had taken some thirty Philadelphians to New York
the day before the election. There was no evidence, however, that
more than one of them had voted, and the only effect of the disclosure
was to add the word "pipe-laying" to the political vocabulary.

The Whigs fought their battle to the end with confidence of success,
and displayed an enthusiasm and harmony never witnessed in this
country before or since. Commencing with the harmonious selection
of General Harrison as their candidate, they enlisted Clay and
Webster, his defeated rivals, in his support, and, having taken
the lead, they kept it right through, really defeating the Democrats
in advance of the campaign. The South were not satisfied with Mr.
Van Buren's attitude on the admission of Texas, which stood knocking
for admission at the door of the Union, and "the Northern man with
Southern principles" was not the recipient of many Southern votes:

"Then hurrah for the field where the bald eagle flew,
In pride o'er the hero of Tippecanoe!"

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Tho. Corwin
THOMAS CORWIN was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, July 29th,
1794; was a Representative in Congress from Ohio from December 5th,
1831, to 1840, when he resigned and was elected Governor of Ohio;
was defeated for Governor of Ohio in 1842; was a Senator from Ohio
from December 1st, 1845, to July 22d, 1850, when he resigned, having
been appointed Secretary of the Treasury by President Taylor, and
served until March 3d, 1853; was again a Representative in Congress
from Ohio, December 5th, 1859, to March 3d, 1861; was Minister to
Mexico, March 22d, 1861, to September 1st, 1864; died suddenly at
Washington City, December 18th, 1865.

CHAPTER XVIII.
ENTER WHIGS--EXIT DEMOCRATS.

In 1840 many of the States vote