Horace Greeley, The “Tippecanoe and Tyler Too” Campaign
“ Duncan, of Ohio, one of its most effective canvassers, “achieve great victories every day in the year but one—that is the day of election.” It was certain that a party which had enjoyed the ever-increasing patronage of the Federal Government for the preceding twelve years, which wielded that of most of the States also, and which was still backed by the popularity and active sympathy of General Jackson, was not to be expelled from power without the most resolute, persistent, systematic exertions. ”
