Day in the Life
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4th July Great preparations are making to celebrate Indepanda[nce]
at Bangor & Thomaston 500 came on to the steemer this morning
[to] Go to Thomaston one company dressed up like Negros in disguise
in evry shape & form imaginable Marched on to the bank as
we were about leaving on board of a steemer for Thomaston in all
places as we passed along canon were fired in honor of the 4th A
Table was set at Thomaston for 800 men to take dinner But I
should feel more like fasting & praying on the 4th of July than
making A display of celebration untill the Latter Day
Saints And all people could Have the privilege of worshiping
God according to the dictates of their own conscience without
having there brains blown out for it. And now while I write
A company is passing my door in the street dressed in all the Horid
form that the ingenuity of man could form up one would suppose
that the inhabitants of the bottomless pit had come forth in
possession I wrote A letter to Mrs Woodruff 50 m[iles]
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I should feel more like fasting & praying on the 4th of July than making a display of Celebration untill the Latter Day saints and all people could have the privilege of worshiping God according to the dictates of their own conscience