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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 15: Bay of San Francisco. (search)
made himself an earthly paradise at Belmont, but an earthly paradise in which calmer mortals than himself will bask. I like the man and hope the best for him ; yet noticing his restless eye and paling brow, I cannot help feeling that with all his jollity and briskness William C. Ralston is the victim of his enterprise, the slave of his success. All round this inland sea, the life is rich and strong: rich as the native fruit, strong as the native wine. A Californian, fat and rosy as John Bull, his English ancestor, holds forth a grasp of welcome to his thin and bilious Yankee brother; pointing to a palm tree, heavy with the dates that are to round that stranger out with flesh. If he had only time to eat and sleep, a Californian would be always fat, but where is the Californian who has time to either eat or sleep? The people living on this sunny sea, are seldom in a state that country curates would describe as wholesome. Too much sun is in the sky, too much wind is on the h
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 22: Indian seers. (search)
us is the call of heaven. So too, when the Saints are gathered in their church, divine in origin, each Saint is assumed to be fired and guided by the Holy Ghost. Let us have brother Brigham for our prophet, seer, and revelator, cries some elder, and the crowd of male and female Saints respond-Amen! The voice of the people is the voice of God. Seceders may go out from either Sioux camp or Mormon church, but to depose an Indian chief is no less hard than to dethrone a Mormon seer. Sitting Bull has separated from Red Cloud, carrying with him a thousand lodges of his nation; David Smith has separated from Brigham Young, carrying with him more than a thousand families of his people; yet Red Cloud remains the Sioux chief and Brigham remains the Mormon seer. Seceders cannot take away the grace which covers an appointed chief. The seer not only talks with the Great Spirit, but executes his judgments on the earth. A buck falls sick-he grovels to his chief. That chief, he thinks, can