Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-04-28
LETTER FROM AMApOR.
CaiiIornia's Pioneers and Their Natl,
Sons and Daughters.

CaiiIornia's Pioneers and Their Native
Sons and Daughters.
believe there is no period of the world S
history which gives greater evidence OF
undaunted resolution than that evinced by
the ariy California pioneers History
tells IA thar the Carhagenian General
Ha'a'''''i al the bead ot bis heroic .;imy
forced he passage of The Alps It also
tells n> tina, the p:uphe, Moses. uadeY the
guidone Of benef,ent Providence. de-
EVertd the children Of israel from
| E.s' ian bondage ani led them through
| tie Bitterness TO the i;si y Il Canaan. But
| the lnUuniitable Cai'..;ia pioneers Of
| forty-nine anu hfy d. ~; have, like the
children of Israel riuiId by day and a
pillar of fire by u;ehf. 10 guide them on
their way, but instead painless wilderness
OF two thousand miles interviewed between
them and the land they sought We know
that on every side they were threatened by
| dangers in their journey across the CONT
! nent. They also suffered many priyatiops
some of them died of starvation, while
others fell by the merciless tomahawk or
scaiplng- knife of the savages There were
others who slckened and died by The wav,
and we laid to rest our last fallen comrade
by the side of the blue waters of the Car
son at Rag Town.
But it was not alone the pioneers who
crossed the plains that suffered priyations
and hardships. There were those pioneers
who came by water, who dared almost as
great dangers as those who came by land.
In the spring of 1949 we were standing on
the deck of the steamboat Superb, in the
port of New Orleans sole owner and
MASTERY, and saw the steamship McKim
steam down the Mississippi with that
gallant band of argonauts bound for the
golden shores of California. We watched
the noble craft with her precious cargo as
she glided down the river, and wished that
brave band prosperous passage to the
new Ell Dorado of their hopes and fears. It
must not be supposed that at that time the
question Of California's mild and healthf1l
climate had been solved. For several years
after the first pioneers came, California was
considered at the East to be one of the
most unhealthy climates in the world.
Few OF the pioneers who saw this glorious
country in '49 and so ever supposed that it |
would be the leading State in the Union in
the production of cereals. fruits and yege
tables. But some of them we hope viii |
live to see it the banner State, not only in |
cereals, fruits and vegetables, but also in |
progressive Improvements, in founding |
public schools and colleges, and in all the
various arts and sciences.
But if California is to take the highest
rank in the sisterhoOd of States, then cur |
native sons and daughters must lift the |
burdens from the shoulders of the pioneers
who have carried forward, for nearly forty
years, the grand work OF giving to cur
county not only the Oriental commerce of
the Indies. but also the control of the sea-
girt islands of the Pacific. We can but |
hope that our sons and daughters will |
always bear in mind that life's labors with |
the early pioneers is fast drawing to a close;
that soon the places that now know them
as active participants in the busy scenes of
life will soon know them no more forever.
1t is for you, our sons and daughters to 90
forward in developing all the great re-
sources of the Golden State; it is for you to |
found more public schools and colleges: it |
is for you to purify the public morals of the |
people, so that CALIFORNIA; escutcheon NAV |
descend to your children without one spot |
or blemish.
We see by the RECORD UNION that the |
Ell Dorado Society of California Pioneers |
will hold their picnic in the beautiful CITY |
of Placerville on May 9th We hope to |
meet the Ell Dorado pioneers on that occa-
sion. 1t is now more than thirty years |
since | have visited either Piacerville or |
Coloma-only in visionary dreams. but | |
now feel that | must have one more look |
on that lovely gem of the hills-the city of |
PlacerYille. | also hope to see again that |
beautiful vale where now bloom the fruit |
orchards, gardens and vineyards encircling |
Coloma, where James W. Marshall made |
an illustrious name by the discovery
of gold, and where now all that was earthly
of him, rests. Z. S. HALL.
Plymouth, April %, 1888.