![]() ![]() by the state’s cruel early laws and practices.” Venice Vanguard, 9 September 1927. not the immigrants of equally long standing here, nor the Native Americans, whose thousands of years in California where obliterated. The columnist also pointed out that these celebrations included “a sanitized depiction of California’s ‘founders’ mostly as white colonizers. 9, used to be a gala-palooza in California” with the closure of state offices and some commercial enterprises along with pageants, parades and oher public events. Notably, by the time the admission bill was passed and signed by President What’s-His-Name, there was already a federal census underway, so the enumeration had to be conducted in the new state in the first couple months of 1851-and so poorly that California’s only state census was undertaken the next year.Īs Morrison wrote, “Admission Day, Sept. In spring 1850, elections were held throughout California to set the machinery of government working, however fitfully, and, finally, Congress was stirred to act and quickly. led to a convention, the writing of the document, and its approval by delegates by the end of that year. In 1849, with hordes of new settlers, miners and others, settling in the territory, a movement to write a constitution and set up a government, irrespective of what was (not) going on in Washington, D.C. While Congress ponderously pondered what to do for a few years, the discovery of gold just as the war-ending Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was about to be ratified by the Mexican Congress soon led to the famed Gold Rush. With new states admitted, after the Missouri Compromise of 1820, in a succession of a free one followed by one allowing slavery and repeating that formula based on locale, California put a crimp on that concept, because it was both north and south by latitude. Los Angeles Times, 9 September 1927.įor one, after the seizure of Mexican Alta California by American military forces in 1846-47, the unusual geographical verticality of the new possession posed a problem for Congress. ![]() When President Millard Fillmore (Morrison started off with the wry note that this fact added largely to anyone’s collection of knowledge about one of our blandest and least-remembered chief executives) signed off on the admission of California as the 31st state in the Union, it came under some extraordinary circumstances. A couple of days ago, Los Angeles Times writer and columnist, Patt Morrison, always thought-provoking and interesting, wrote a great column “It’s Time to Celebrate California Admission Day! Wait, What’s Admission Day!” with the title nearly encapsulating the near absence of any mention these days of what was long a state holiday and, for quite some years, one that was avidly celebrated-at least, by some residents. ![]()
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