That's what you get for supporting a movement called "Know Nothing."

Published circa 1856 in Boston and composed by "A. Barrel Apples," the song "The wheelbarrow polka" (also known as "The cider polka") was dedicated to Major Ben. Perley Poore.

Poore, a popular journalist in the mid-1800's, made a bet with Col. Robert L. Burbank that former U.S. President Millard Fillmore (of the soon-extinct Whig Party) would win the Presidential election of 1856 (this time running with the American Party of the anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic Know Nothing Movement).  The loser had to wheel a barrel of apples from his own home to the winner's home (Poore lived in Newbury, Massachusetts; Burbank in Boston -- 36 miles apart).

Fillmore lost and thus did Poore (James Buchanan won) so he spent over two days on the road pushing an apple cart to Boston while cheered by an audience lining his lengthy route. 

A larger version of the image above can be viewed here.  If you're interested in the sheet music, it can be viewed here.