“Revolutions in California are matters of constant occurrence in California. They are got up by men who are at the foot of the ladder and in desperate circumstances, just as a new political party is started by such men in our own country. The only object, of course, is the loaves and fishes; and instead of caucusing, paragraphing, libelling, feasting, promising, and lying, as with us, they take muskets and bayonets, and seizing upon the presido and custom house, divide the spoils, and declare a new dynasty. As for justice, they know no law but will and fear.”
“Two Year’s Before the Mast” R.H. Dana Jr, 1840
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