No rise of water on account of the rain of the 7th. — A fine
time, election day (13th). The Twenty-third — five hundred and fourteen —
unanimous for Brough. I went to bed like a Christian at 9 P. M. McKinley waked
me at eleven with the first news — all good and conclusive. My brigade
unanimous for Brough; Twelfth Regiment, ditto. A few traitors in [the]
Thirty-fourth. McMullen's Battery, one for Vallandigham. State forty or fifty
thousand on home vote. A victory equal to a triumph of arms in an important battle.
It shows persistent determination, willingness to pay taxes, to wait, to be
patient.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 440
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