The Contest for California in 1861 How Colonel Ed Baker Saved the Pacific Sta
The Contest for California in 1861 How Colonel Ed Baker Saved the Pacific Sta
Elijah Robinson Kennedy
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"To Senator Baker was awarded the chief honor of the occasion, — after Mr. Lincoln, — and stepping quickly to the front, his silvery voice rang out over the multi- BAKER IN THE SENATE 193 tude with these simple words: * Fellow citizens, I introduce to you Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States of America. '"^ * The sentences in quotation marks are from L. E. Chittenden's Recollections. CHAPTER XI SILENCE AND ERRORS OF HISTORIANS — THE SECESSION PERIL IN CALIFORNIA — SENATOR baker's... INFLUENCE AT WASHINGTON — GEN- ERAL SUMNER SUPERSEDES GENERAL JOHNSTON — THE CRISIS PASSED The perilous state of aflfairs on the Pacific Slope in 1861 has been partly set forth in earlier chap- ters. Further evidence shall presently appear. It will be interesting to note how little the "history books" have to say on the subject and how incor- rect much of that little is. Von Hoist's "Constitutional History of the United States" does not comprehend the seces- sion movement in its scope: it drops California at the year 1848.
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