Transcriber's Note:
Some obvious printer's errors have been corrected as seemed reasonable, such as certain punctuation errors (like omitted periods, periods to commas or semi-colons to commas, and some mismatched quotation marks). Some inconsistent or obvious spelling errors or typos within the text were also corrected (e. g. merily to merrily, cariages to carriages, we'l to we'll, acording to according, Stevvens to Stevens, Govenor to Governor, Congresss to Congress, cheeful to cheerful, rythm to rhythm, etc.).