The Forty-Niners

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The Forty-Niners
White Stewart Edward
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TheCommittee immediately countered by publishing its roster of one hundredand eighty names in full.
The organization that was immediately perfected was complete andinteresting. This was an association that was banded together andclose-knit, and not merely a loose body of citizens. It hadheadquarters, company organizations, police, equipment, laws of its own, and a regular routine for handling the cases brought before it. Itspolice force was large and active. Had the Vigilance movement inCalifor
...nia begun and ended with the Committee of 1851, it would be notonly necessary but most interesting to follow its activities in detail. But, as it was only the forerunner and trail-blazer for the greateractivities of 1856, we must save our space and attention for the latter. Suffice it to say that, with only nominal interference from the law, thefirst Committee hanged four people and banished a great many more forthe good of their country. Fifty executions in the ordinary way wouldhave had little effect on the excited populace of the time; but in thepeculiar circumstances these four deaths accomplished a moralregeneration.

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