Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896 : life-sketches written at the suggestion of his children . ent — allthe Engelmann family, all the Hilgards, Bunsens, Reusses,Schotts, and many other friends, some from St. Louis. Alarge table was set near the house under shade-trees, and wasfilled at least three times before all got through dinner. Twoof my St. Louis friends had sent us excellent boxes of wine,and we had really a merry time. From relatives and friendswe received useful and costly presents, and some weeks latermany valuable presents came from our family in in the evening I t
Memoirs of Gustave Koerner, 1809-1896 : life-sketches written at the suggestion of his children . ent — allthe Engelmann family, all the Hilgards, Bunsens, Reusses,Schotts, and many other friends, some from St. Louis. Alarge table was set near the house under shade-trees, and wasfilled at least three times before all got through dinner. Twoof my St. Louis friends had sent us excellent boxes of wine,and we had really a merry time. From relatives and friendswe received useful and costly presents, and some weeks latermany valuable presents came from our family in in the evening I took Sophie away to our new home. A few days before our wedding I ceased writing a diary,I regret it now; but how could I think at that happy time ofwriting down my sentiments and my feelings and would have seemed to me a kind of profanation. Besides,there was my law-business to be attended to, and a good manythings that a single man had no notions of. Politics alsotook up a good deal of my time. Mr. Snyder, my partner,though in feeble health still, had made up his mind to run. BEGINNING TO PRACTICE 407 again for Congress. The chances appeared good. In 1834 hehad been beaten by Governor Reynolds, but had received alarge majority of the Democratic vote. But Reynolds, beingsupposed to be a less radical Jackson man than Snyder, hadreceived the support of nearly the entire Whig party. Thistime, however, J. Gatewood, a very eminent lawyer in thelower part of the district, came out as an outspoken Whig oranti-Jackson man, and was pretty sure of getting the Whigvote. Mr. Snyder was not allowed by his physician to makepublic speeches, but he went into every county of the district,which was a very large one, being nearly one-fourth of thewhole State, running down the Mississippi from Green Countyto Cairo and from there up the Ohio and Wabash to WhiteCounty. As the election was to take place in August, he wasaway from home nearly all the time from May to August,leaving me
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