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
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