Day in the Life
Journal Entry
7th
Election. This day decides who is elected president
of the United States for the next four years to come
I have not cast A vote for A president since this nation
shed the Blood of the Prophets Joseph And Hiram Smith
Neither do I expect to I spent the day at home while
most men went to the election.
The electric telegraph has become so perfect And universal
through the United States that citizens of New York recieved
the returns of many of the states of the union before they
did the returns of the city itself And before the papers went
to press next morning after the election, returns had been recieved
enough to show that Gen Taylor was elected Presiden of the
United States by an overwhelming majority
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