Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Romanism, the Peril of Our Country: Address by Col. Edwin A. Sherman, of Oakland, California, Delivered at Music Hall, Boston, Sunday Afternoon, Oct. 20, 1889
George Bancroft, while the waves of war broke upon the borders of Texas, yet nevertheless, Lieutenant Gillespie, who was sent overland, made his way to Mazatlan, and there placed his orders in the hands of Commodore Sloat, and on July 7th, 1846, he landed at Monterey, and secured California to the American nation forever.
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