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MARTIN VAN OF KINDERHOOK Come ye hardy sons of toil And cast your ballots for free soil He who'd vote for Zacky Taylor Needs a keeper or a jailer Martin Van's the one we'll go He is the man for the people, O! I look around and find it so Just as they said at Buffalo And he who still for Cass can be He is a Cass without the 'C' The man on whom we love to look Is Martin Van of Kinderhook When the Whigs they preach and pray For the old man of Monterrey I shake my head as up I figures The price of his two hundred niggers When the Hunkers say the man Is Lewis Cass of michigan Amid the talk of all their lawyers I think of sand-banks snags and sawyers, How the Hunker placement pale As our shouts come on the gale How they tremble with dismay Looking on our proud array Taylor he must take his station Among the slaves on his plantation While the toast around we pass "A long good night" to Lewis Cass The abolitionist Free Soil party nominated ex-president Van Buren, who took 1/10 of the total vote and enough democrat votes from Lewis Cass to swing the election to Whig Zachary Taylor. Buffalo was the site of the Free Soil convention. The "Hunkers" referred to conservative Democrats, 'Barnburners' to anti-slavery democrats. Van Buren was from Kinderhook NY. Campaign of 1848 AIR -- 'Dandy Jim of Caroline' @political @history filename[ MARTKIND CX Feb07  8note Sheet |
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