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Township No. 1 $11,349.11
2 (for '63-'64) 24,681.41
3 10,252.30
4
10,389.33
66
66
5 6,674.34
6
7,219.63
66
7 1.034.91
TAXES ASSESSED FOR 1863.
For State purposes, on each $100. Federal Tax 66 66
.62c.
Road Fund
66
.10c.
School purposes
20c.
Hospital 66
66
.25c.
Sierra Wagon road "
50c .- $2.29
. 62c.
103
AT THE BEGINNING OF 1860.
During this season the Court House, which was to cost $18,900, was swelled into a $50,000 structure, by the changes from the original plan, involving stone basement and water tables, and stone steps in front and rear.
March 3, 1863 .- "Ordercd (by the Supervisors) that the steps to the Court House be made of stone instead of brick, as specified in the original plan; also, that the balustrade of the steps be made of stone, and that the top step be made four feet wide." A special superintendent, Francis McGrath, was employed to measure and examine the work.
February 3, 1864 .- The Supervisors ordered a warrant to be drawn for $9,174.76, in favor of Mat. Canavan, assignee of Epley, Canavan, and Meloney, he having obtained a judgment in the District Court to that amount, as a balance due on the Court House contract. Farley and Armstrong, attorneys for the county, were allowed $500.00 as fees.
During 1863, townships eight and nine were organized east of the Sierra Nevadas, out of terri- tory that was afterwards incorporated into Alpine county; also the election precincts of Silver Mount- ain, Mogul, Mineral City, and Markleeville. The uncertainty of the boundaries of these precincts, especially on the Calaveras side, was the source of much trouble until the final separation of the terri- tory from Amador county. Communication could only be maintained in the Summer months. In the Spring of 1864, the delegates attending the Conven- tions for nominating delegates to the Electoral Con- vention, came over by way of Placerville. The county of Alpine was created March 16, 1864, by Act of the Legislature, out of territory of El Dorado, Amador, and Calaveras. By this Act, the eastern boundary of Amador county was fixed at Hope valley, Kirkwood's house being just within Amador. Alpine county was to issue two warrants in favor of Amador, for $5,000 each, payable ont of the gen- eral fund, and bearing interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, payable in one and two years, as her part of the common debt. The two counties were made one district, for choosing Legislative officers.
POLITICAL PARTIES IN 1864.
Biennial instead of annual sessions of the Legis- lature having been established, and the election of members of the Legislature made to correspond in time with that of the county officers, there were no local interests to fan politics into the usual white heat; but the great questions of union and freedom, which had convulsed the nation for years, were still in abeyance and proved ample enough to arouse the highest feeling and bring ont a full vote. The habitual leaders, having no inducements to accom- modate their sentiments to those of the public, were comparatively candid in expressing their opinions. At 'the Convention held to clect delegates to the Electoral State Convention, John Eagan, J. T. Farley, R. Stewart, Long Primer Hall, and A. H. Rose,
opposed the prosecution of the war as unjust, uncon- stitutional, and inexpedient under any circumstances. The sentiment, afterwards incorporated into the National Democratic platform, that "four years of war having demonstrated the impossibility of con- quering the South, hostilities should cease, with a view of peaceable separation, if satisfactory terms of union could not be agreed upon," was generally advocated. M. W. Gordon, however, was opposed to acknowledging the independence of the Confcd- eracy, under any circumstances, but believed the Union could be restored, only by employing Demo- cratic generals, under a Democratic Administration, with a Demoratic President. He would prefer Thomas H. Seymour, of Connecticut, for President, but would accept Grant, Mcclellan, or Sherman.
These sentiments did not suit the majority of the Convention, but M. W. Gordon was a man of too much talent and influence to be slighted or left out in the cold, and J. T. Farley, with his usual skill and tact, advocated his having a place in the delegation. James Meehan, J. T. Farley, M. W. Gordon, and R. Cosner, were sent from the county at large, and T. D. Wells, - Lanning, Gerhard Sphon, Robert Mc- Lellan, -- Dickinson, and J. W. Leslie, from the several townships.
Those of our readers who are not old enough to remember the famous campaigns of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too," of 1840, may form some idea of that memorable affair, by the processions, bon-fircs, and illuminations of this season. Every town had its turn, but, as usual in all such excitements, the active, the aggressive, swept the conservative away, and the Union demonstrations were the most brilliant and noisy. Long processions, with all trades and employ- ments in active operation, were the usual beginnings of a political meeting. Rail-splitting, tailoring, shoe- making, blacksmithing, weaving, printing, and every- thing that could be done on wheels, were made parts of the display. Abraham Lincoln split a lot of rails once, and the three or four stalwart men swing- ing the mauls, were sure to bring out the enthusiasm. There was a touch of the humorous in these dis- plays, which would have been enjoyable, but for the solemn fact, that a million of our noblest and best, were, at the moment, locked in a death struggle. The whole nation went on a frolic in 1840, but no such shadows of death rested on the people as in 1864. But, as a politician expressed it, the party that could do the most of this work, would get the bulge, and it was donc.
VOTE OF 1864.
Presidential ticket - Republican, 1392; Demo- cratic, 1200.
Congressional ticket-Higby (Rep.), 1390; Coffroth (Dem.), 1200.
TOWNSHIP COLLECTORS AND JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
Township No. 1-John Burke, Collector; J. G. High and T. Masterson, Justices of the Pcace.
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HISTORY OF AMADOR COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
Township No. 2-J. Farnsworth, Collector; J. Bowen and C. English, Justices of the Peace.
Township No. 3-T. A. Goodwin, Collector; II. T. Barnum and H. Cook, Justices of the Peace.
Township No. 4-1. N. Randolph, Collector; II. Wood and J. S. Hill, Justices of the Peace.
Township No. 5-F. (or N.) King, Collector; J. W. Morgan and R. C. Brown, Justices of the Peace.
Township No. 6-A. P. Wood, Collector; J. W. Whitaker and B. Nichols, Justices of the Peace.
Township No. 7-M. B. Oliver, Collector; R. Saunders and A. J. Lucas, Justices of the Peace.
At the judicial election in the Autumn of 1863, the average Republican majority was seven hundred, in a total vote of about three thousand.
FINANCIAL MATTERS, 1864.
The rate of taxation for all purposes, made May 7th, was three dollars and twenty-five cents on each hundred dollars.
On the 7th of June, the Treasurer reported out- standing warrants over and above sums in the Treasury to apply on General Fund, $74,159.42; on Sierra Wagon Road Fund, $15,125.00; on Road fund, $1,467.35; making a total of $90,751.77.
This estimate does not include interest, which would swell the amount to $100,000. The extrav- agance of the two previous years, laid a foundation for the permanent debt.
The following December the amount of the debt, exclusive of interest, was estimated at $111,139.94. Before the taxes were collected, it was apparent that the levy was insufficient to meet current cxpenses, and a new schedule was made out, as follows :-
For State purposes
on each $100.
92c
County
General Fund
100c
Hospital "
25c
School 66
20c
Sierra Nevada Wagon Road
66
45c
Redemption Road Fund
66
10c-$4 92
TAXES ASSESSED BY TOWNSHIPS.
Township No. 1
$ 9,597.71
66
2 (for 1863-64) __ 24,681.41
=
3
4,947.48
66
4
9,701.93
5
6,879.10
6
6,844.26
7
1,014.24
66
8 ) afterwards
9,627.72
9 ] Alpine Co.
3,030.46
POLITICAL PARTIES IN 1865.
This, the last year of the bitter strife, witnessed the most exciting seenes of all. The year opened with the defeat of the rebel armies in all quarters, and soon saw the surrender of the last of them" Whether from indiscreet rejoicing on the part of the Republicans, or embittered feelings on the part of the Democrats, or both, the Democratic news- papers beeame more bitter and vituperative than ever. Public opinion was in a highly excited con- dition in consequence, and when the news of the assassination of Lincoln was flashed across the Conti-
nent, the danger of riots, and destruction of life and property, was imminent. Human nature is much the same the world over. It is but two hundred years since our ancestors thought it expedient and right to burn, slay, destroy, torture, and harass, all who differed with them, either religiously or politi- cally, and, notwithstanding all our boasted improve- ment, the desire to do so is still an active element in our characters. The animus of the parties may best be shown by extracts from the papers.
Dispatch, March 5, 1865 :-
"The first act of Lincoln's administration was stained by falsehood, and shortly afterwards by * deliberate, palpable, tongue-blistering, soul-damning perjury." * *
"The first officer under our Government, whose moral conduct should reflect the virtues and dignity of a great country, and be an example for all classes of people to imitate, stands before the world with the brand of perjury upon his brow!"
" The rebels fight for the priceless boon of liberty as did their fathers of the Revolution; the merce- naries of the federal army, for Government green- backs."
March 12, 1865 :-
"If to sympathize with a brave and gallant peo- ple who are struggling to throw off the yoke of a merciless despot, * *
* be secessionism, then we are secessionists."
March 26, 1865:
"Abraham Lincoln, the self-confessed perjurer; * * * the buffoon; the vulgar joker; the spiritu- alist; the abolitionist; the man who believes the negro his equal."
ARREST OF L. P. HALL AND W. M. PENRY.
A company of cavalry had been stationed in Ione valley to eject settlers from the Arroyo Seco grant. After the assassination of Lincoln, persons were arrested in different parts of the State for sympathy with the Rebellion, or for treasonable expressions. The Dispatch had been one of the ablest and most outspoken Democratic papers in the State, and although not coming within the boundaries of giving " substantial aid and comfort to the enemy," it had advocated the right, if not the policy, of secession; had eulogized the President and officers of the Con- federate States; had abused the Union President in severe terms, and had, in fact, been a magazine of Southern ideas and arguments, on Northern soil. Some of the ablest articles in defense of the South had come out in the Dispatch; in fact, there was no writer in the county, on the Union side of the question, that was a match for the editor of the Dispatch. It was quite natural that the wrath of the Union men should seek vietims in the editors and writers of the paper, though it was not charged that it had ever sanetioned the assassination of Lincoln. On the morning of the 8th of May, about daylight, the persons mentioned awoke to find themselves sur- rounded by a troop of eavalry under the command of Captain Starr, aeting presumably, under the com- mand of General McDowell, at San Francisco. The printing office was elosed up, and two or three hours
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46
200c
8
RESIDENCE AND LUMBER-YARD OF GEORGE ALLEN, SUTTER CREEK, AMADOR COUNTY, CAL.
BUILDINGS ON THE RANCH
BUILDINGS ON THE RANCH
VIEW ON THE RANCH OF GEORGE ALLEN, AT SUTTER CREEK, AMADOR COUNTY, CAL. EMBRACING 3.000. ACRES, 300., ACRES CULTIVATED,
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AT THE BEGINNING OF 1860.
afterwards the entire party left for Camp Jackson, in Ione valley, our friends walking through the hot sand, with the thermometer at 100° in the shade. From thence they were taken in irons to Fort Alca- traz, where an eighteen-pound ball with chain, was attached to the legs of each man. They had the choice of hard labor on the works, under guard, or confinement in the sweat-box, and wisely chose the former. They were kept here, in company with other sympathizers, until about the middle of the following month, when peace, law, and order were so far established, that it was considered safe for them to be at large. It is said that neither of the men ever had the remotest suspicion of the cause of their incarceration !
In justice to the Dispatch and its conduetors, it must be said that they pieked up the cudgels of war- fare at the place where they dropped them at the time of the arrest, and when they resumed the pub- lication of the paper, which they did on the 23d of September following, it had lost none of the vigor which characterized it through the four years of the great Rebellion.
L. P. Hall, who was arrested with Penry, was one of the most original men ever connected with the press in Amador county, or, perhaps, in the State. He was able to stand up to the case and set up his most vituperative artieles without manuscript, a feat that few editors or printers are capable of. He was thoroughly aggressive in his character, and if he had been on "Southern Soil " at the time of the breaking out of the Rebellion, his temperament would have been as likely to have carried him into the opposition as anywhere. He was previously the editor of the Equal Rights Expositor, at Visalia, a paper as pro- nounced in its disloyal sentiments as the Dispatch. It was suppressed by the order of General McDowell, and the editor, and three others arrested with him, set free on taking the following oath :- STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
County of Tulare. S
We, L. P. Hall, of Tulare, State of California, Citizens of the United States, do solemnly swear that we will support the Constitution and Gov- ernment of the United States against all enemies, whether foreign or domestic, and that we will bear true faith and allegiance, and loyalty to the same, any ordinance, resolution, or any State Con- vention or law of any Legislature to the contrary, notwithstanding; that we will give no aid, assistance or encouragement, by word or act, to any person or persons, or pretended Government, engaged in rebellion against the Government of the United States. And further, that we will do this with a full determination, pledge, and purpose, without any mental reservation whatsoever, so help us God. · (Signed) L. P. HALL, *
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this fifth day of January, 1863. M. A. MCLAUGHLIN,
Cop'ain 2d Cavalry, C. V., Commanding.
Whatever difference of opinion may have existed with regard to his course as an editor, there was none with regard to his ability.
John Gaver, of Sutter Creek, who had written many of the articles in the Dispatch, was arrested about the same time, and subjected to the same treatment. He was charged with rejoicing over the assassination, which, however, he denied, or asserted, that if he did, he was drunk, and unconscious of what he said. He was arrested on complaint of O. L. Chamberlain, F. Tibbetts, and T. Frakes.
After the assassination of Lincoln, more than one Union meeting was held to consider the expediency of demolishing the Dispatch establishment, but better counsels prevailed. It is quite likely. however, that the arrest of Penry and Hall, and the suppression of the paper for awhile, saved the material from destruction. The excitement gradually wore away, and better feeling began to prevail.
SEATON'S DEFECTION.
There was a full set of county officers, as well as members of the Legislature, to elect, and the politi- eians set about arranging these matters. The national question having to some extent been settled, per- sonal ambitions and antipathies began to be more manifest. When the Republican Convention met, R. Burnell was nominated, after some opposition, as candidate for Senator. G. W. Seaton, who had been acting with the Republican party for years, arose and denounced Burnell as having tried to throw the State into the hands of the secessionists, by voting for giving the seat to a Democrat in a contested election case. This affair had happened some years before, and, if true, Burnell was only voting to decide who was elected, the politics of the man, properly, having nothing to do with his right to a seat. It is likely that personal antipathy was the ruling motive, for Mr. Seaton had supported Burnell in Convention and on the stump, after the oceur- rence of the contested election ease; but, at any rate, he announced his intention of defeating Mr. Burnell if it cost ten thousand dollars. As he had a very rich quartz vein just then to draw on for funds, the threat was very serious. He immediately announced himself as an independent candidate for Senator, and took the stump. The Democrats left the nomination for the Senatorship vacant, with the understanding that Seaton's name was to be used. The contest of course was very spirited, Seaton's gold mine being a powerful influence in his favor. It is not supposed that votes were directly pur- chased, but money, which Seaton had in abundance, would purchase fire-works, orafors, music, gun-pow- der, and whisky, which certainly have the power of moving many people in their political opinions.
It is generally believed too, that in the early days the Italian vote was practically purchasable, that is to say, that from fifteen hundred to twenty-five hundred dollars would buy the influence of one or two men, who would control the greater portion of the Italian vote, which was numerous enough to decide, in many cases, the election. (It is said, now,
*There were three other signatures.
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HISTORY OF AMADOR COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
by those best acquainted with the Italians, that that condition no longer exists; that individual indepen- dence is becoming as common with them as with other nationalities.) When the contest was over, Seaton was elected. Amador and Alpine had remained one district for the election of members of the Legislature, Alpine being allowed one member and Amador the other threc. O. F. Thornton and Harvey Lee were candidates by the respective
parties, Republican and Democratic of Alpine county-Lce being elected. The following table of the returns will be interesting, as not only showing the names and popularity of the different candidates, but also as showing the names of many precincts which were abolished when the registry law was established, this election being the last held under the old law :-
ELECTION RETURNS BY PRECINCTS, SEPTEMBER 6, 1865.
Aqueduct . .
Amador ...
Avery's Lumber Yard
Alabama House .. .
Badger Store.
Butte City.
Butterfield's Ranch ..
Buena Vista.
Clinton. .
Copper Hill.
Drytown ...
Fiddletown .
Foster's Ranch
Forest Home.
Irish Hill.
Ione City ..
Jackson ..
Lancha Plana.
New York Ranch
Pine Grove. .
Sutter Creek.
U Rancheria
Volcano ... .
Willow Springs.
Yeomet ..
Senators.
G. W. Seaton ..
29 109
15
8
21
22
4
11
6-
19
112 104
20 24
65 221
10
33 120
26 112
23 55
M. Frink.
12
40
17
26
25
19
29
27
6
23
59
88
13
28
16 115 159 16 116 154
88 233
30
13
32 112
32 107
33 145
143
23 44
Sheriff.
R. Cosner.
35
85
20
17
21
29
20
18
28
13
28
7
25
57
90
88
15
16 125 169
56
16
17
32
132
85
13 64
District Attorney
J. A. Eagon. ..
30 107
13
15
23
20
17
13
61
14
94 116
72
96
14
27
16 121 159
60
17
45
137
8 161
10
63 34
Pub. Adminis'or.
M. Tynan.
33 103
16
13
2]
22
17
13
28
6
25
72
90
14
27
16 122 169
60
17
46 136
8 165
30 34
Surveyor
T. C. Stowers. .
33 103
16
14
2]
22
16
13
6G
14
97
115
11
17
32
95 230
40
17
30 109
26 107
10
63
Coroner.
C. Boarman
33 103
16
6
21
22
18
16
66
14
96 115
11
11
32
93 243
66
16
33 110
26 109
10
62
Sup. Dist. No. 1.
James Carroll.
14
25
14
36
98 190 56
COUNTING THE VOTES.
It is difficult to gather the facts in the matter of the counting of the votes. There was much ill- feeling about it, and many charges of fraud, and much filing and counter-filing of protests. Judge Badgely asked that the Supervisor votes for District No. 1 be canvassed, which was refuscd. The two candidates were James Carroll and C. Ingalls. The custom had prevailed, whether lawful or not, of holding eleetions in the camps in Arizona and Utah, where the volunteers from Amador were stationed, and returning their votes as from a precinct. Though these soldiers were known to be of both parties, the returns were generally all one way. It was alleged by the Democrats that no fair election was held; that the officers made out the returns to suit them- selves. The Democrats further urged that voting in Arizona for officers in Amador, was carrying the doctrine of constructive residenee a little too far; that it was unconstitutional. The Republican argu- ments in favor of counting their votes, were rather necessity and expediency, than law. They showed
the absurdity of the Union men all going to the war, and having no voice in the choice of officers, and leaving the secessionists in the rear to rule; and the votes were counted, though protests were filed by D. Worley, John Eagon, A. C. Brown, Henry Lee, James Carroll, R. M. Bradshaw, and John Surface.
There were also other irregularities. At Clinton, D. B. Spagnoli acted both as Inspeetor and Clerk. There was no appearance of fraud in the matter, though the proceeding was evidently illegal. Here was a chance for a contest. The vote was generally six Republican, and sixty-four Democratic, making a difference of fifty-eight votes. If the soldiers' vote was rejected and Clinton accepted, most of the Democrats would be elected, otherwise, most of the Republicans. J. W. Armstrong, now a noted law- yer in Sacramento, then a young man, taking his first flights in law and logic, contended for the legality of the Clinton proceeding, and assertcd the principle, that the statute permitted what it did not prohibit. The returns from Lower Rancheria hav- ing no certificate attached, were rejected.
OFFICES.
NAMES.
12 33 15
27
25
21
33
28
6
19 551 92
25 145 169
60 39
78
16
44 133
8 162
24 34
O. F. Thornton
13 41
17
26
25
21
29
27
6
22
59
89
99
13
26
91 232 89 155
49
18
16
18
16
18
43 120
8
|171
13
27 33
Treasurer.
L. Rabolt.
33 103
13
13
23
24
24
30
28
8
25
75
86
14
28
14
33 112 170
34
16
33 110
26 110
10
65
D. Townsend. .
13 40
16
26
25
22
28
17
13
28
14
25
69
89
9
17
16
32
95 228
39
17
33 107
26 109
11
62
J. M. Griffith. .
13
40
16
26
25
22
22
29
25
7
25
71
89
14
30
16 118 157
32
18
44 135
8 163
30
34
V. Stacy.
13
40
16
33
25
25
17
25
25 45
12 110 203
40
18 16
44 138
8 165
29
H. Robinson ..
13
40
16
27
21 25
22
29
13
63
14
93 115
11
23
32 93 227 97 225
63
18
44 137
8 164
30 32
Supt. Schools .. .
S. G. Briggs.
33 103
16
14
23
22
16
13
66
14 111
114
11
17
32
99 240
54
14
34 124
26 101
26 34 61
Otto Walther ..
13 39
19
27
23
22
30
28
10
25
75
116
90
14
16 120 176
49
42 133
158
29 38
County Clerk.
J. A. Robinson
15
41
14
23
26
2]
27
20
30
7
12
23
7
24
71
97
71
97
115
12
17
32 98 223
52
35 114
26 116
10 59
§ M. J. Goodrich
12
39
17
26
24
22
32 105
15
14
21
22
7
12
64
16 105 104
11
14
30
A. C. Brown .. .
29 105
14
S
21
13
23
25
14
25
89
14
15
60
17
44 131
8 162
26 109
26 107 8
17 53
) J. C. Shipman.
31 103
17
17
2]
23
22
17
28
7
25
14
96 110
=
17
32
96 238
39
17
32 109
26 113
24 34 17 13 56 56
Assemblymen
Harvey Lee. . .
29 104
14
8
24
64
17 107
12
24 20 27
32 126 241
52
44 101
26 130 8
45 114
8 188
26
R. M. Briggs.
16 29
19
25
30 34
66
56
12
98 114
14
16 118 160
56
Recorder.
A. C. Hinkson.
20
11
16
16 121 171
60
18
14
§ I. N. Randolph
11 59
12
66 20
15
24
53
15
14
27
13| 23 13
( R. Burnell. ...
18 43 122
S 1571 17 33
C. Ingalls. .
45
22
29
107
END OF THE SECOND DECADE.
LIST OF OFFICERS ELECTED IN 1865.
State Senator-G. W. Seaton.
Members of Assembly-M. Frink, H. Lee. Sheriff-R. Cosner.
County Clerk-J. C. Shipman. Recorder-A. C. Hinkson.
Treasurer- Otto Walther:
County Surveyor-T. C. Stowers.
District Attorney-R. M. Briggs.
Superintendent of Schools-S. G. Briggs.
Coroncr -- J. Boarman.
Public Administrator-M. Tynan.
Supervisor District No. 1-C. Ingalls.
TOWNSHIP ELECTIONS.
No. 1-John Burke, Collector; E. Turner, Thomas Jones, Justices of the Peace.
No. 2-J. W. Surface, Collector; Wm. H. Scudder, Wm. Shelley, Justices of the Peace.
No. 3-R. M. Bradshaw, Collector; H. T. Barnum, George S. Fake, Justices of the Peacc.
No. 4-Thomas Dunlap, Collector; C. K. Johnson, P. Cook, Justices of the Peace.
No. 5 .- D. Worley, Collector; R. C. Brown, G. Devore, Justices of the Peace.
No. 6-A. P. Wood, Collector; W. W. Swadley, H. D. Ford, Justices of the Peace.
DEATH OF G. W. SEATON AND ELECTION OF HIS SUCCESSOR.
This was caused by the explosion of the steamer Yo Semite, October 12, 1865, between Sacramento and San Francisco, W. A. Rogers, of Jackson, being killed at the same time. A more particular account of his life will be given in the account of the Amador Bar. This accident necessitated the calling of another election, which was fixed on the 2d of December. A. H. Rose was nominated by the Democrats and O. N. Morse by the Republicans.
Quartz again, as was said, influenced the election. Rose had money to loan where it would do him good. The M. E. Church Society at Ione borrowed somc $1,500. It was not charged that this purchased any votes, but having shown a disposition to accommo- date the church, he was a good man and ought to be supported. He also obtained quite a support from the recently ejected settlers in Ione, inducing them to think that Congress could be persuaded to remun- erate them by a memorial which he promised to get through the Legislature. His part of the contract he fulfilled; the memorial, containing a concise, well- written history of the Arroyo Seco grant, being trans- mitted to Congress with the official seal of the State on it. These things are not related to cast reflec- tions on Mr. Rose's method of conducting the canvass, but to show, as a soldier would, how battles are lost and won.
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