Port O'gold: A History-romance of the San Francisco Argonauts

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Richard G. Badger, 1922 - 416 strani
 

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Stran 185 - The fact that Casey has been an inmate of Sing Sing prison in New York is no offense against the laws of this 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 217 - SIR : Information having been received by me that an armed body of men is now organized in the city and county of San Francisco, in this state, in violation of law, and have resisted the due execution of the law, especially by preventing the service of a writ of habeas corpus duly issued, and is threatening other acts of violence and rebellion against the constitution...
Stran 152 - ... no thief burglar incendiary or assassin shall escape punishment, either by the quibbles of the law the insecurity of prisons the carelessness or corruption of the Police or a laxity of those who pretend to administer justice.
Stran 62 - Great Sale of Valuable Real Estate in the Town of San Francisco, Upper California. By the following decree of his Excellency, General SW Kearny, Governor of California, all the right, title, and interest of the United States, and of the Territory of California, to the beach and water lots on the east front of the town of San Francisco, have been granted, conveyed, and released, to the people or corporate authorities of said town.
Stran 162 - Governor, upon being introduced, stated that he approved of the acts of the Committee, and that much good had taken place. He hoped that they would go on, and endeavor to act in concert with the authorities, and in case any judge was guilty of maladministration, to hang him, and he would appoint others...
Stran 248 - Thus, 0 brave heart ! we bear thee to thy rest Thus, surrounded by tens of thousands, we leave thee to the equal grave. As in life, no other voice among us so rang its...
Stran 247 - Citizens of California: A Senator lies dead in our midst! He is wrapped in a bloody shroud, and we, to whom his toils and cares were given, are about to bear him to the place appointed for all the living. It is not fit that such a man should pass to the tomb unheralded ; it is not fit that such a life should steal unnoticed to its close ; it is not fit that such a death should call forth no rebuke, or be followed by no public lamentation.
Stran 248 - As in life, no other voice among us so rang its trumpet blast upon the ear of freemen, so in death its echoes will reverberate amidst our mountains and our valleys until truth and valor cease to appeal to the human heart " ' Good friend I true hero ! hail and farewell !' "It is worth while to die if one could be mourned so gloriously.
Stran 383 - This world's life is only an appearance, a sensuous image of the pure spiritual life, and the whole world of sense only a picture swimming before our present knowing faculty like a dream, and having no reality in itself. For if we should see things and ourselves as they are we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures with which our entire real relation neither began at birth nor ended with the body's death.
Stran 142 - ... redress, but that it seems to be inevitably necessary. Are we to be robbed and assassinated in our domiciles, and the law to let our aggressors perambulate the streets merely because they have furnished straw bail? If so, let each man be his own executioner.

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