The Colonial History of the City of San Francisco
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Excerpt from The Colonial History of the City of San Francisco: Being a Synthetic Argument in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of California, for Four Square Leagues of Land Claimed by That City It is hoped that the title given to this volume will not be considered pretentious, when it is stated that it resulted from an afterthought, based upon the following considerations: The discussion of the case was thrown into a narrative form, for the reason that although often treated analytically with great ability, and with a conclusive result, still a class of persons has existed ever ready to resist the conclusions of the argument by the cry: "There was never any Pueblo of San Francisco!" thus endeavering to evade the result by forcing a re-examination of the main fact in the case. A chronological narrative, weaving into itself in their appropriate places the organization and acts of the Pueblo, and its constant and often repeated recognition by the executive, the Legislatures, and the citizens of California, both before and after the conquest by the Anglo-Americans, seemed the appropriate and only means of silencing this clamor, and of utterly and forever establishing the indisputable fact of the existence of the Pueblo, in such a manner that whoever hereafter shall assume to deny it will render himself ridiculous. When the work was nearly finished, the suggestion occurred that it was too valuable to be thrown as a mere waif upon the stream, as law-briefs and other pamphlets commonly are, and that whatever its merits or deficiencies in point of execution, the narrative, with its documents entitled Addenda, were not without a permanent value as the first essay towards the "Colonial History of San Francisco." It has therefore been honored with a title page, received an appropriate title, and been elevated from the low estate of a pamphlet to the dignity of a book. The documents in the Addenda contain precious materiaux pour servir, and present a view of the wise and beneficent colonial policy of Spain and Mexico, which will repay the study of the historian, the ethnologist, and the statesman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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