MEN OF THE PACIFIC: BEING ORIGINAL SKETCHES OF THE LIVES AND CHARACTERS OF THE PRINCIPAL MEN, LIVING AND DECEASED, OF THE PACIFIC ORATIONS, EULOGIES, LECTURES, AND POEMS, UPON A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS, INCLUDING THE HAPPIEST FORENSIC EFFORTS OF Baker, Randolph, McDougall, T. Starr Ling, They came-the Founders of a State, The men with spirit brave and free, Who snatched the magic wand of Fate And shaped their own high destiny.-J. T. GOODMAN. No species of writing seems more worthy of cultivation than Biography.-LANGHORNE. SAN FRANCISCO: BACON AND COMPANY, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, 1870. 68407 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by BACON AND COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the District of California. |