Speech #560049944

I think. to his fellowSenator. Mr. Ramsey. of Minnesota. They have since been made in nearly the following form to the Senate of the United States: "Upon the discovery of gold in California. in 1848. a large emigration of young men immediately rushed to that modern Ophir. Thete people. numbering in a few months hundreds of thousands. on arriving at their future home found no laws governing the possession and occupation of mines but the common lawof right. which Americans alone are educated to administer. They were forced by the very necessity of the case to make laws for themselves.