The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1891-01-25
through The stamping of feet. Edgerton
concluded in these words:

ing us to the performance of our duty. AMI
to be told here, in this Senate amid the gar
nered talent courage and patriotism of the
State, that the timid policy of a mastery in
activity should rule the hour? That treason 4
shall stalk through the land not only unpun-
ished but unrebuked? Is the great heart Of
California dead? Shall we prove ourselves
pigrnies, when the times demand men? Mr..
President and Senators, you may defeat these
resolutions, but If you do, go home and tell
your constituents that in the hour Of your
country's greatest peril she called upon you,
ana you ,, were not 10 ,, De ionna! lei them
you, and that You quailed and covered before
it, Tell them that you drank at the filth
pools that Buchanan has dug out by the great
highway of Democracy, until you were torpid
from insensibility, and nerveless from fear!
Tremendous sensational But l look for a
higher and nobler result from the proceedings
of this day. Let us forget for a time the divis-
ions of party and join hands upon the common
ground of Il broad and elevated patriotism.
Let our motto be: .The Constitution and the
Union; may they be preserved forever and
fOrever!" May the great principles of liberty
and law upon which they are based brighten
shall have encircled the earth! Let us not be
frightened from our duty by the horrors of u
civil war, nor fascinated from 1t by the delusive
dream of a Pacific republic. Let the voice of
California go forth to-day, In tones that shall
thrill to the farthest verge of the republic, pro-
claiming that her patriotic sons have pledged
to their country their lives, their fortunes and
their sacred honor. Let us so act, in the great
crisis that is now upon us, that when we shall
come to be gathered to the dust in which our
fathers are laid, we may say to our sons and
our grandsons: .'If we did not amass, we have
not squandered your inheritance of glory"
A few days afterward Thornton replied
to Edgerton, and the latter responded in
q second speech of greater length and
even more powerful than the first. 1t
also was largely devoted to an argument
on the constitutional right OF a State to
sever its connection with the Union, but
there were frequent flights of oratory
throughout. This memorable debate re-
suited in coalition of the Republicans
and Douglas Democrats in the Legisla-
| ture, the resolutions were adopted, and
California then and there put her seal
and stamp upon all attempts to drag her
out of the Union.
Among the members of that Senate was
r. Il, Heacock, who is also member of
the present Senate, representing Santa
! Barbara county. Hewas at that time one
of Sacramento's Senators, the late Judge
Robert C. Clark being tie other.
.... Considerable excitement was
created in Sacramento just thirty years
ago yesterday by q report that man was
en- route from Placeryille to this city with
a colored man. whom he had in irons,
and who, it was said, he was about to take
out OF the State, claiming his right to him
as a slave. The officers were on the alert,
and that night, between Y and o'clock,
found the parties and released the
| prisoner. 1t appeared that in 1850 some
fifteen slaves belonging to one Smith,
Missourian, were brought to this State.
The owner, who was large slave-owner
in that State, had just died Gn 1861, and
several of the slaves that had been brought
to California We're taken back by his
heirs. The one first referred to was Sc
cured by the deceaSed'S son, Thos. Smith,
/. in Carson Valley New, and taken to the
vicinity of Placerville in irons. He was
! then transferred to a buggy and brought
/ to Folsom. From there he was taken on
the cars as far as Saulsbury's Station
/ (near Routier'sl, and again transferred to
a buggy and brought into Sacramento
! after night. The police ascertained that
Smith had taken the man (whose name
was John Turner) to room over the
| Fashion Saloon. AS soon as Smith
concluded he had better turn his man
loose, which he did. There were several
citizens looking for the pair, and if the
Missouri slave-driver had made the
slightest attempt TO run Turner out of the
city, as his slave, he would probably have
been roughly handled.
@.........A singular thing occurred one
day in the Court Of Sessions in this CITY.
When the court convened it was found
| that the Clerk was absent. After long
wait he showed up, and then it was found
that the Deputy Sheriff was absent, being
on hunt for the Clerk. When the Dep
uty Sheriff got back an attempt was made
4 to organize the court, and then one of the
Associate Judges turned up missing.
After search throughoutthe Court house
he was found, but by that time another of
the Judges, who had gone to look him up,
had not returned. The presiding Judge
was about to read 1.-The Riot Act'' when
his missing Associate came into court
blowing like porpoise. Finally the
machinery OF the justice mill was started
up.
The State Agricultural Society
was then without race-track, and citi-
zens' meetings were being held for the
purpose OF agitating the subject of pur-
chasing and donating to the Society sutfi-
cient ground therefor. The canvassing
committee was composed of Messrs. E. r.
Figg. j. III. Culver, n. L. Drew, Edgar
Mills, Z. T. Huntington, Thomas Hans
brow, A. ID. Rightmire, w. NJ. Harron,
Samuel Cross, p. I'll. Russell, L. A. Booth
1 DR.. Underwood, r. d. Ferguson. ID. o.
Mills, Wilson Flint and Josiah Johnson
The committee set about it's work, and
i soon had the necessary funds in sight to
1 warrant the purchase OF the land on
which the present Agricultural Park is
located.
........Sonoma County then had rather
wealthy citizen named George P. Swift,
who preferred to deposit his money in q
sand-b bank, rather than trust it to bank
of the common kind. One day he wanted
some cash, so he dug up 1909, and had
one of his men assist him in placing it in
his buggy. The man concluded that he
could easily master the combination of
his employers bank-door, so that night
he opened the bank with shovel and
took out $4,000 and decamped. Before
he was arrested he had gotten away with
$4,000 of the Doodle.
........ On the night of the 18th of jan
uary an attempt was made to burn the
| Sacramento Theater. The combustibles
were discovered and removed, and man
was placed to watch the building. About
O'Clock in the morning he left the place,
thinking there was no further danger. but
as soon as he left the incendiary renewed
his attempt, but the fire was again dis
covered and subdued. Had the fiend
succeeded an entire family would have
been cut OFF from escape and burned to
death.
Michael Hanly was tried on the
18th of January, 1851, for assault to MUIR
der Eberhardt Stencil. The parties re-
sided near the Costumes River, and the
trouble originated over land dispute.
Hanly was convicted of assault with q
deadly weapon.
.........The census of 1860 gave Sacra-
mento County population of "A, 020. The
census of 1890 gives her just about twice
| that figure. San Francisco was then
credited with but 81 ,033. FL Dorado came
third on the list with 20,5G4. :. Los Angeles
County had only IL ,543.
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