New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-03

ton was largely from tho South. nearly
| 10 per cent 81 the population coming
! from the slave statc9 These Democrats
were strongly united says Mr. Kennedy.
! ncreas the Northern majority wore di-
vlded between parties. AS they had been
! IN the East The disloyal machine.
strongly intrenchcd and served by the
federal officials in tho state during the
trucking administrations OF Pierce and
Buchanan. was controlled Ivy william
NJ. Gwin, the first United States Scna-
tor from California. BY 1858 the state
was covered with Il network of secret
societies, among them the knights OF tn
Golden Circle. Late ia 1850 the leaders
were openly looking fer a leader FOR the
Californian army, while nj the same
time Senator Gwin saw TO Il in Wash
ington that the two commands OF the
regular army were consolidated into on"
military department Of the Coast and
placed under the command Of a South
,rn sympathizer. Colonel Albert Sidney
Johnston. No documentary evidence or
GWin'g activity in the matter exists. but
Mr.. Kennedy holds that it is abundantly
proved by the boasts on the subject mao
e the time Of OWNS departure. But
the ship that carried him to Panama on
his way to Washington carried also Ed
ward Dickinson Baker, the Union man
elected by Democratic oregon 10 the
Senate. the Gray Eagle ~ Republican
ism who had done SO much for The
cause of Lincoln on the Coast IT was
he who introduced the President to the
people from the porch Of the Capitol
when he made his first inaugural ad-
dress. Lincoln knew him and trusted
him IL was his energetic insistencc that
led 10 the immediate removal or john
ston from the military command on the
Pacific Coast and the appointment IN
his stead Of Trustworthy soldier, GEN
cral T.. V. Sumner.
Il is historically doubtful If Johnston.
who was a gentleman and resigned hon
urably, would have betrayed his com
the secessionists failed to act. perhaps
because they lost their courage, perhaps
because, lacking Johnston. they lacked 4
leader altogether. Perhaps, also, be-
cause no time was left them In which to
take new measures:
Possibly II Senator Baker had been less
insistent with Lincoln. and General Sum
ner had taken the next steamer after that
I'm which he sailed. the relation OF the Pa
oil fnaQ al n rnU 10 IN oil a va
been different during the War for the
Union. But when General Summer called
on General Johnston, gave him the Presi-
dents orders and General SCOTS. and re-
marked II am now In command OF the de-
partment" the crisis was past. BY his
representations of the peril and his eager
inslstencc on the relief; through his inilu-
had saved the Pacific Coast to the Union.
Edward Dickinson Baker. whom his
biographcr ranks next TO Alexander
Hamilton, and with Carl Schurz. on the
roll OF Immigrants who have served the
country Of their adoption well, was born
In London In February, 1911. and
brought 10 this country when he was
four years old. His father was Quaker
and a man of good education; his mother
was sister Of Captain Thomas Diclin-
son, a distinguished British naval officer.
The family first settled in Philadelphia,
where the son was in course of time
apprenticed to weaver. In 1925 the
father who did not prosper, answered
the call of the West. moving to New
Harmony, Ind, and thence to Belleville
H. Here the future statesman worked
to- pay for what formal education he
could get, supplementing it with omniy-