The Log of a Forty Niner Journal of a Voyage From Newbury Port to San Francisco
The Log of a Forty Niner Journal of a Voyage From Newbury Port to San Francisco
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" It was an easy matter to make a Yankee into a Californian, but no easy matter to make him back again. From the man with many opinions as to personal values, as he was in the east on the Pacific coast he learned to have but two estimates "be a man, or be made one. " It would not be true to say that crime did not exist, for often San Francisco was the refuge of the outlaw, but on the whole I believe conditions made for higher manhood in the end. The " Vigilanters " were a law unto them- selves,... ferreting out criminals, and meting out punish- ments severe and sudden. However that may have been, the safety of the people called for radical means whereby to keep crime in check. The sudden clang of the bell ! Who did not know what its ringing foretold? "Death !" THE LOG OF A FORTY-NINER 121 r "Death!" it generally pealed to the waiting listeners, while a body dangled from the derricks of the Sand Lot, the Plaza or Russian Hill. But the prompt and extreme measures of the " Vigilanters " were breaking up the rule of the outlaw, and bringing in a better and safer order of things.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" It was an easy matter to make a Yankee into a Californian, but no easy matter to make him back again. From the man with many opinions as to personal values, as he was in the east on the Pacific coast he learned to have but two estimates "be a man, or be made one. " It would not be true to say that crime did not exist, for often San Francisco was the refuge of the outlaw, but on the whole I believe conditions made for higher manhood in the end. The " Vigilanters " were a law unto them- selves,... ferreting out criminals, and meting out punish- ments severe and sudden. However that may have been, the safety of the people called for radical means whereby to keep crime in check. The sudden clang of the bell ! Who did not know what its ringing foretold? "Death !" THE LOG OF A FORTY-NINER 121 r "Death!" it generally pealed to the waiting listeners, while a body dangled from the derricks of the Sand Lot, the Plaza or Russian Hill. But the prompt and extreme measures of the " Vigilanters " were breaking up the rule of the outlaw, and bringing in a better and safer order of things.
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