The works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, 第 21 巻

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597 ページ - Whilst the President will make no effort and use no influence to induce California to become one of the free and independent States of this Union, yet if the People should desire to unite their destiny with ours, they would be received as brethren, whenever this can be done, without affording Mexico just cause of complaint.
145 ページ - ... 47" and named Point Victoria, or Elk Station. This location is altogether unintelligible to me. Much descriptive matter is given about the soil and vegetation of the banks, as well as of the animals and natives of the Oneshanate tribe. The broad plain was said to be bounded in the east by the Sierra Nevada, and on the west by the Bolbones and Diablo mountains. The trigonometrical survey was completed down the river and connected with that of Beechey, the task not being completed, with hard and...
399 ページ - In conclusion, the author draws a glowing and extravagantly colored picture of California's prospective grandeur in the time, not far off, when "genuine republicanism and unsophisticated democracy shall be reared up and tower aloft, even upon the now wild shores of the great Pacific; where they shall ever stand forth as enduring monuments to the increasing wisdom of man and the infinite kindness and protection of an all-wise and overruling...
597 ページ - In the contest between Mexico and California we can take no part, unless the former should commence hostilities against the United States; but should California assert and maintain her independence, we shall render her all the kind offices in our power as a Sister Republic.
3 ページ - at every turn by the drunken followers of Graham; and when walking in the garden, they would come to its wall and call to me in terms of the greatest familiarity: "Ho! Bautista, come here, I want to speak to you;" Bautista here, Bautista there, and Bautista everywhere.
3 ページ - And if vengeance were always a certain consequent of injustice, he reasoned well. The vagabond had promised, in the day of his need, to bestow lands on those who had saved his neck and raised him to power. This he found it convenient to forget.
236 ページ - Suiter's establishment is admirably situated. Besides lying on the direct route between San Francisco on the one hand and the Missouri and Willamette on the other, it virtually excludes the Californians from all the best parts of their own country. Hitherto the Spaniards have confined themselves to the comparatively barren slip of land from ten to forty miles in width, which lies between the ocean and the first range of mountains; and beyond this slip they will never penetrate with their present...
239 ページ - The people dont know me yet, but soon they will find out what I am able to do. It is to late now to drive me aut the country, the first step they do against me is that I will make a declaration of Independence and proclaim California for a Republique independent of Mexico.
398 ページ - Yet it is with these wild, shirtless, earless, and heartless creatures,' alluding more particularly to Micheltorena's cholos, 'headed by a few timid, soulless, brainless officers, that these semi-barbarians intend to hold this delightful region as against the civilized world.
303 ページ - ... particularly by our great commercial rival England, and especially at this particular juncture, as a measure so decidedly hostile to the true interest of the "United States, as not only to warrant but to make it our duty to forestall the design of Admiral Thomas, if possible, by supplanting the Mexican flag with that of the United States at Monterey, San Francisco, and any other tenable points within the territory said to have been recently ceded by secret treaty to Great Britain.

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