On this day Daniel Webster, the famous Massachusetts Senator, went north to Stratton Mountain, Vermont to campaign for William Henry Harrison and his Vice Presidential candidate John Tyler.

A Baltimore newspaper had suggested that Harrison would gladly retire from politics to live in a cabin on the Ohio river if he were given cash and a large enough barrel of cider. Webster seized on the remark, and painted his candidate as a common man with simple needs running against aristocrats. They enthusiastically produced hats, placards, floats and even a transportable log cabin with cider barrels, and successfully shifted the political debate into a referendum on the candidates' images.

Harrison won the election, but died early in his administration. Webster joined the Tyler administration as Secretary of State, where he distinguished himself as the only cabinet official not to take part in a politically motivated mass resignation.