Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-09-11
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
ADMISSION DAY.
Celebration by Pioneers and Native Sons
General Observance.

general suspension Of business among the
wholesale houses, the closing of the banks,
Courts and public offices, and general display
of the national colors, and by celebration at
East Park by the Sacramento Pioneer Akso-
citation and the Native Sops of the Golden
West. At an early hour the Pioneers, under
the Marshalship OF G. K. Van Heusen, went
out to the Park accompanied by their fami-
lies, where picnic was held beneath the
generous shade of the trees of the
grove. Later the Native Sons appeared.
The First Artillery band was engaged
and furnished music for all who desired TO
dance. At 2P. NJ. the guests, who By that
time had gathered ia large numbers, were
called by their hosts to the platform. A. II.
Powers, President Of the Day, called to or
der. aud stated the object of the gathering.
He sketched the method that had been EN-
ployed in recent years for proper observance
of the day. aud added that this year union
for q celebration had been made with the
Native Sons of the Golden West, and that
in accordance therewish programme had
been arranged This Festsl Day was
then suug by double quartet consisting of
Mrs.. PiDkham, Miss Fannie Campbell, Mrs
Garter, Mrs Sheets, Mr.. Barrett, Mr.. Sheets,
MIR. Fritz and J. II. Carroll, with Miss Ger
lie GsIrish presiding at the organ. Mr..
Powers then introduced, on behalf Of the
Pioneers l. n. Hoag. who delivered the first
address He said:
It is meet ard proper that we celebrate this
day-the anniversary of California's adn.is-
sion as State into the American Union-on
this historic spot On that elevated mound
just across the way, the father and founder
of this great pioneer and Empire State of the
Pacific pitched his tent and afterwards made
his permanent home. IL seems but yesterday
when Captain Suffer sailed from Yerba Blu.
ena, crossed the bay, entered the Sacramento
river, pushed up the American just opposite
this place, and coming to a landing, COM
menced work on the afterwards world re-
nowned Suffers Fort" Little did he think
as he was moliing the a1obes and laying them
in the walls Of that structure, designed only
as protection to his family and property
from the rsvages of surrounding Indian
tribes, that almost before il was completed it
was to play SO important part in revolu-
ton that was TO wrest from the Mexican Gov
eminent, to which he had swern allegiance,
an empire, and transfer it with It's Infinite
wealth OF treasure to the great American Re-
public. Little did he think that in less than
a decade from his tirst sslec;iaS this spot as
his home, around which to build up peace-
full and prosperous agricultural establishment,
he was TO become the discoVerar or associate
discoyerer of q physical fact that was to
startle and electrify the world. Little did he
think that out of that discovery was to grow
up an industry. thu proceeds of which would
~ so short a time change the worlds financial
systems and divert the channels Of commerce
over the entire habitable globe. but man
proposes. while God disposes."
Nor did the civilized world at that time
hardly kuog Of the existencs of the Sacra-
mento river or anything of the size or char
acter of this great inland valley. At that
time this whole country was but wild
waste wilderness inhabited by tribes of
Indians or droves of human beings as wild
and savage as the beasts of prey that occupied
the country with them. As you looked out
tJYards the setting sun there was no habita-
no settlement, no sign Of civilization till
sd ppssed beyond the coast range of
ih5~I = As you gazsd to behold the re-
turn o. Eat sun in the morning, there was
stretch Of rugged mountains and sandy deserts
for over fifteen hundred miles before you
came to the outposts of civilizsti as they
were reaching out from the 0sisnt towards
the Occident. A thousand miles and more
measured the distance to the half civilized
settlements Of New Mexico, and an equal
distancs to the north had to be travelled before
you could greet your white neighbors on the
Columbia river.
But CAPTAIN Suffer was master of the stu.
Ills pJsscshtl an lIClpicuE mexican
title TO this whole country and its wild inhab-
itsnts. He could almost have said with
Alexander Selkirk
! am monarch OF all | survey
My right there is none to dispute,
From the ceater all round to the sea,
am Lord OF the fowl and the brute.
Such was the standpoint from which Cap
tain Sutter iaid out MS plans and engaged in
their execution. To his treatment of the
b,,, he 81 I,,E -, e.
ne was the William Penn OF the Pacific
He csu2ht the wild OK, and having chained
him to the pillow, he mssmerized the wild In
dian and Impressed him with Franklin's
favorits agricultural maxim:
He that by the pillow would thrive
Must either hold or drive.
His operations were as extensive as trey
were comprehensive. Besides his new Hell
vstia here, which was q miniature civilized
world of itself, ne had Hook Farm on
the Feather river He had. at ths time of
the discovery of god at Coloma, LOCO acres
OF land planted in wheat between his fort and
the Sacramento river. He was the owner OF
5000 head of csttla, over 1000 horses and
mules, and over 2 600 sheep and / 600 hogs
He wanted lumber for his 4 Iur mi at
Brighton, and he was building a sawmill at
Coloma with which to saw that lumber. He
wanted water 20 set his milissones in motion
and. without needing the riparian rights Of
Others, il any, below him, he unceremoni-
ousiy diverted the waters of the American
riyer and turned them into his mill-race.
We will pass over the story of the insur.
rection of Generals Castro, Vallejo and AL.
veraio against the authority OF Governor
Micheltorena. and how Gsaersl Suffer,
through his esgeTDess 60 serve the Govern
msnt that had used him so kindly and BE-
slowed upon him SO much of its territory. got
L. IA r. %ha fnS o-1l l,,,.-
when he was informed of the fact. withdrew
his command from the field and Michsltorena.
by stipulation, retrested VIGOROUSLY. We
will also pass over the brst b5ar hagsconflic',
in which our very worthy Brother Green Me.
Mshou, unarmed, had q set-to with an armed
grizzly and came off victorious. We viii also
pass over the real bear deg war. inaugurated
on the 14.h eff June, 1S46. by Captain Mer-
rift dashing into Sonoma and capturing the
garrison, and which eliminated on the 5th of
July following, when, in the presence of Cen
eral Fremont's battalion Of $50 men, the peo-
pie bled at Sonona and declared their
indspsndence This independence under the
bsar flag had a duration of but two days
Commodore Stoat captured Monterey or the
9Th the American flag wAs raised at Yerba
Buens on the Sgh. and at Sonoms on the 10sh,
and the bear flag came down and the stars and
stripes fl patsd on the breeze over Suffers
Fort on the 11th of July, and thus ended the
bear flag war-the United States assuming
control Of tae stfaiIs, and the brave bear q ~
Off GERS and men entering the service of the
United States Government. Quick work was
made when the contest assumed this position
Ga the 18th Of January, lS47, articles OF
cspitulatioa were signed By the Peace Com
miss;oners appointed By Colonel Fremont, on
the one side, aud Dan Andres Pico, Com.
mander-ineG thief of tha California forces under
the Mexican fsp on the Other
The country was now at peace, with Colonel
Il. B. Mason as Governor, and peaceful H.
dustries were again rescmed
On the 19.h Of January, 1913, James w.
Marshall made the discovery. Of gold in the
saw-mill race st Coloms. We hal no rail-
roads or telegraph lines across the continent
then, but the news of this discovery, and
Others following sooa reached all the nations
OF tie earth. l need not tell pioneers OF the
unprecedented rush to this country. You
were part and parcel of the great tide Of
human beings that cams into California at
the 4sSiasn Gstes ACROSS tina plains and at
every other possible point. i need not tell
pioneers OF the immense amount of gold that
was taken from the mines in few succeeding
years. A Thousand millions was soon added
to the wealth of the world, producing fnan.
cisi and commercial revelations that will
continue as long as man shall inhabis the
earth. l need not recits to pioneers the
character OF The men that occupied this State
I iz1a2 aud 50-how, without law, good order
.ehts of persons and property were
he'd how, without government, the
whois( bunsry was well governed. A nobler
exampss Of self government by the force Of
iadividus ,haracssr and individual forbear-
ancs thei world has never presented aud
never viii.
Before man nsede Us citizens, great
Nature made Us men.
Without recognition ~ the General Cow
eminent or any other cove, nment We were of
ourselves a State in the highsst sense of that
term. My friends,
What constitutes State?
Not high-raised battlement or hbored mound,
Thick wallis or moa-ed gate
with c,,i-rs