Bitterly cold last night; a bright, frosty morning. Election
yesterday in all these counties on accepting the conditions which Congress
affixes to the admission as a State of West Virginia. The condition is
abolition of slavery. The people doubtless have acquiesced.
Rumors of enemy in Boone and Logan [Counties], also on the
Sandy. All pointing to an attempt to take this valley and the salt-works.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 398
