Gardner Governor by an immense majority,
and elected Henry Wilson to the Senate of the United States.
Mr. Gardner was re-elected in 1855 by the momentum of the party,
although it had fallen into discredit which would have led to its ruin
in the face of a vigorous opposition. The Whig Party had disappeared
and the Republican Party had not reached a period when it could
command its forces. In 1856 the Know Nothing Party was yielding to
the Republican Party and Governor Gardner was accepted for a third term.
In the year 1854 I made a trip to the Adirondack woods and mountains.
The party was organized by Francis W. Bird, and it consisted of Mr.
Bird, Henry W. Pierce, D. W. Alvord, a Mr. Hoyt and myself. We left
our homes about the 20th of June and were absent about twenty days.
We entered the woods from Amsterdam, N. Y. From that place we
travelled by a wagon to Lake Pleasant, about fifty-four miles. We
remained there two or three days at a hotel kept by a man named John
C. Holmes, or rather by his wife, while Holmes retailed old stories to
the few guests. The chief topic was the large trout caught in the
lake and when and by whom. The ten largest of the season caught in
Lake Pleasant and Round Lake weighted in the aggregate 154-1/2 pounds.
A Mrs. Peters from New York was the champion; her prize having weighed
something over 16 pounds.
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