Mirror of the Times

Mirror of the Times

Article by Thomas Duff about the 1857 San Francisco Convention

California Digital Newspaper Collection

1857-12-12

Mr. Editor:- - Since my return from the late Convention at San Francisco, I have indulged in such thoughts and reflections, upon the subject which is or should be, uppermost in the minds of our people. And although the result of my reflections may not prove of much practical benefit to the people of the California, I am yet constrained to send you this effusion, hoping it may help along the excitement, and keep alive the sense of which appears to glimmer in the minds of many of the ignorant and illiterate amongst us - of the necessity of unceasing and well-directed action, if we expect to cleanes the worse than putrid stable in which we reside, for what fouler mass can be found than the statues and social prejudices of this State at the present.

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1857.CA-10.20.SANF