23rd I spent the day mostly in the office writing I attended the
council in the Evening and it was voted for the Legislature to get
a Joint Resolution passed to appoint a committee of both Houses
to organize a State Government & ask for Admission into
the union Remarks were mad by Presidet Taylor & Erastus
Snow He said we should claim of the Government Evry right
that the Constitution gave us and if the Nation rejected us
they must bear the Blame of it this was our duty as a matter
of History & to our children & to Posterity
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