California: An Intimate HistoryBoni & Liveright, 1927 - 356 strani |
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Stran 140 - The whole country from San Francisco to Los Angeles, and from the seashore to the base of the Sierra Nevada, resounds to the sordid cry of gold ! GOLD ! ! GOLD ! ! ! while the field is left half planted, the house half built, and everything neglected but the manufacture of shovels and pick-axes...
Stran 184 - State; nor is the fact of his having stuffed himself through the ballot box, as elected to the Board of Supervisors from a district where it is said he was not even a candidate, any justification for Mr. Bagley to shoot Casey, however richly the latter may deserve to have his neck stretched for such fraud on the people.
Stran 296 - We propose to destroy the great money power of the rich by a system of taxation that will make great wealth impossible in the future.
Stran 297 - ... editor, in which they declared that the Chinese must go; and that it was not altogether sufficient to rely upon votes to drive them off. Congress, they said, "has often been manipulated by thieves, peculators, land-grabbers, bloated bond-holders, railroad magnates and shoddy aristocrats — a golden lobby dictating its proceedings. Our own legislature is little better. The rich rule them by bribes. The rich rule the country by fraud and Cunning; and we say that fraud and cunning shall not rule...
Stran 251 - A miserable remnant of a faction, sailing under false colors, trying to obtain votes under false pretences. They have no distinction they are entitled to; they are the followers of one man, the personal chattels of a single individual, whom they are ashamed of. They belong, heart and soul, body and breeches, to David C. Broderick.
Stran 180 - That's the word! If Mr Sheriff Scannell does not remove Billy Mulligan from his present post as keeper of the county jail, and Mulligan lets Cora escape, hang Billy Mulligan, and if necessary to get rid of the sheriff, hang him — hang the sheriff!
Stran 296 - The object of this association is to unite all poor and working men and their friends into one political party, for the purpose of defending themselves against the dangerous encroachments of capital on the happiness of our people and the liberties of our country. We propose to wrest the government from the hands of the rich, and place it in those of the people, where it properly belongs.
Stran 252 - I have hitherto spoken of him as an honest man — as the only honest man on the bench of a miserable, corrupt Supreme Court — but now I find I was mistaken. I take it all back. He is just as bad as the others.
Stran 265 - If this be rebellion, then I am a rebel. Do you want a traitor? then I am a traitor. For God's sake speed the ball; may the lead go quick to his heart, and may our country be free from this despot usurper that now claims the name of president of the United States [cheers].22 - i Quoted in Mariposa Gazette, April 29, 1863.
Stran 296 - We propose to elect none but competent workingmen and their friends to any office whatever. The rich have ruled us till they have ruined us. We will now take our own affairs into our own hands. The republic must and shall be preserved, and only workingmen will do it. Our shoddy aristocrats want an emperor, and a standing army to shoot down the people.