New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-02-06
THE YANKEES IN CALIFORNIA.

At the late Forefathers Celebration at San Fran
cisco, Geo c. Bates esq who responded TO the toast
of The Mayf 1er, said in substance that although
he was not born in New England his ancestors came
from there's and after a few general remarks on the
history Of New.Engand and the character Of her PEG
pie, he went on in the following eloquent strain:
What would standish, and Brewster, and Carver,
and Bartlett who landed two centuries since, say,
could they join Us to-nghtGn this jubilee-could they
reunite with us on Russian Hill along the North Beach,
and then around Front street to Rncon Point, ana
over Mission Creek II they can look down from their
New.England Heaven the Heaven OF the PIgnms)
upon this wondrous city, rising more like magic than
even those created by Alsddin's Lamp, what wouio
they behold paradox, that would puzzle anKee
ing propensiiies Of Connecticut peddler could not
el1cidate Let us see what they would say:
Looking from Russian Hil-a spot rendered fear
fu by the execution OF the one murderer out OF nun
dreds who have deserved death within the limits OF
our city who there paid the fearful penalty Of blood
for blood-let us look into yonder bay. The moon "
Eliminates the scene the city hes beneath us, and its
befe 10 washed by the waters that eDp ana now within
the Golden Gate.
First Let us look at yonder ships. Their tspering
masts their sharp bows, their breadth of BEAM then
fyirg voyages sometimes making even speed out
vieing the paddle wheels Of the Golden Gate; me
Golden Age, Stephens, the Sonora, whence did they
comet Whose are theyf Where did the an .Ss;T
growi Where were the bolts forged that oind , tIsn
oak ribs together Whose muscle ana slns sru va
rveted their Sides that thus defyng the storms ena
the tempests of the ocean they now 1de quie'y ~
anchor IN the Bay Of San Francisco
"The answer to guests the spirits OF tn9se VINO
came over in the Msyfowey, would be-to New .s.
gland belong those clippers which cleave the ocean
wave with the lightning speed OF the cage wing
Look under their stern see their baptlsma naneg aaa
place fbirth. All are of New-England or New-r ok
and of New-Engand parentsge baltimore H Gl''a
Charleston, Pensacola Mobile, New-Oreans, oaiVes-
ton. own none Without being invdious toward our
fellow citizens Of other States than those OF NewEn-
gland. would remark as fae-a fact TO be rsmem-
bered and pondered uponthat aside from the foreign
,bps now or heretofore in this port, more than nne
tenths were built, launched, owned and manned oy
New-Erelsnders. IL, ..
" Second - Again descending from the decks OF
those gallant clippers, shall show our spiritnsi
guests along our business streets-Front, Battery,
Sansome, Montgomery. Behold there New,Eng isna
enterprise-tbe Macondrays, the Fhnts, the hussys'
the Haes and their compeer. Enter ell thsse nisas
moth warehouses filed with the products OF eS..g
cline on earth. There you behold millions q
| invested in Yankee manufactures, IN ianAse ".
| ducts. in evidence Of New-Engands wesnf, Of S.m
England's merchants Let an earthquake snaxe ~.
this night the business buildings oeeupied by
glandeIs and cave those Of our foreign merchants