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Title: History of the bench and bar of California: being biographies of many remarkable men, a store of humorous and pathetic recollections, accounts of important legislation and extraordinary cases, comprehending the judicial history of the state
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Shuck, Oscar T. (Oscar Tully), 1843-1905
Subjects: Lawyers Judges Courts Celebrated cases
Publisher: Los Angeles, Cal. : The Commercial printing house
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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f the term ; butthey have taken care of themselves, and lessdestitution existed among them before theiracquaintance with the whites than with thesame number of white people. Since theirconnection with the whites they have sufferedmore for the necessaries of life than before.They raised corn, in very early times, andnot only supported thmeselves, but assistedin supporting the whites. Among numerouscitations of eminent authority for his positon.Judge ^ork quoted from a speech deliveredin the house of representatives of the UnitedStates by John C. Calhoun in 1820. The following article from his jien was pub-lished during the sand lot excitement in SanIranci.sco : dexxis ke.\rxev.This name, which to hundreds of thousandsof people has become exceedingly familiar, isthat of a man who but a few months ago wasentirely unknown to fame. Now could hisbrother draymen say : Ye gods, it doth amaze me,A man of such a feeble temper shouldSo get the start of the majestic world.And bear the palm alone.
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WMo M. York History of the Bench and Bar of California. 63 He is said to have been in San FranciscoInit a short time, and yet commands a vastnumber of her citizens as absohitely as thoughhe were their hereditary dictator. His ideasare the most absurd, and yet thousands listento him with marvelous appreciation. It iswell for him that he sprang from the ranks ofthe draymen, for if he had been an individualof any note, his doctrines would have dis-gusted those who now admire. For a for-eigner, resident in San Francisco, to talk ofsending military companies to Alameda countyto elect a candidate for senator is such anassumption that, without further evidence, wecould believe the speaker to be a lunatic or afool. Though we do not record ourselves infavor of the Incendiary bill, we do claimthat the public have and should have theright to prevent public incendiary utterances.Freedom of speech does not mean freedom toincite evil-disposed people to violate the laws,and he who is prevented from

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