The people of California, in forming their Constitution, in the simplicity and sincerity of their hearts had supposed that they had adopted the most unobjectionable and effectual mode to allay excitement in reference to the question of slavery. The fearful state of passionate excitement that followed these circumstances and recriminations, at one time seriously threatened a dissolution of the Union, and called for the dispassionate exertions of the great statesmen of all parties. The application of California for admission into the Union gave rise to long and bitter protracted discussions in both branches of Congress, such as has never been before witnessed in that body.
We have great reason to be thankful to Him, who, in his wisdom and kindness mixes the evil and the good, and scatters thorns as well as flowers along the path of national and individual existence.
#RACING BONDS KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC II FREE#
California has been admitted to her equal station among the free States of our great confederacy, and her Senators and Representatives are now heard in the national councils. Under all these untoward circumstances, our population has rapidly increased, our wonderful resources have been greatly developed, and improvements have everywhere marked the progress of an energetic people. We have lost many most valuable citizens by that modern scourge, the cholera, which for the first time visited our shores during the past fall. Our cities have been visited by fire, pestilence and flood, and the whole State has passed through a severe monetary crisis, producing extensive failures and great pecuniary embarrassment.
"Since the adjournment of the Legislature we have passed through many scenes some of melancholy, and some of pleasing character.
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