new government to give in their votes at the court house, and so made out so many as 1,164 for the Federal ticket, and no man said against it. The last day you would wonder to see so much people together, two or three thousand, may be, and not one 'anti.' An ox roasted whole, hoof and horn, was divied into morsels, and every one would taste a bit. How foolish people are when so many are together and all good natured! They were so happy to get a piece of Federal ox as ever superstitious Christians or anti-Christians were to get relics from Jerusalem."[1] This occasion was more social and festive than are election days now.
In Maryland twenty-two men were voted for as electors. The eight men receiving the most votes were elected, and were all Federalists. One elector apparently received every vote cast, the total number of votes being, about 7,656; another fell less than one hundred votes behind the first. The Federalist candidates, where the party lines were drawn, received about 5,500 votes, and the Anti-Federalists came almost entirely from Baltimore and Annapolis and the adjacent counties of Harford, Baltimore, Anne Arundel, and Prince George. To the west of the Blue Ridge there were no Anti-Federalist votes. In the two westernmost counties, Washington and Frederick, which cast one-fourth of the vote of the State, the unpopular party found but two supporters. The Eastern Shore was overwhelmingly Federalist; in four counties but three opposing votes were cast.[2] The Anti-Federalist
