Whig Poetry: De Possum's Treed
Campaign song for Henry Clay, a Whig Party candidate in the 1844 presidential election. Clay became known as the "same old coon" due to his multiple campaigns for the presidency in 1824, 1832, and 1844.
- The song frora vvliich weextract, considers that viclory so certain as to speak of it as already vyon,antl thus celébrales it: DE POSSÃM'S TREED. Tune - "Dance to de Boatman.' Oh hab you heard dat popsum's case- How he got beat ïn de "Mection race, Pe lickinjr he got from dat old coon, While we all. sing this jam up tune - Ob see depossunvs treed, Oh see de possum's treed, We'll do a Hule more, In forty-four. O, Jienry Clay he is do boy, De coods all look on him wid joy Cause he áey no in forty four, Will kill dé possums a little more. Oh see. fcc. This little taste must suffics for the present. - More anon.CotÃon Faetones, SI Ãn nuinber, have been recently built in one of the Mexican ciistricts, by emigrants frora Massachusett6 nnd Rhode Island; and are operated by uative Mexicans.