- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Editor's Note on the Text
- Part I An Autobiographical Sketch
- 1 Words of Professor Royce at the Walton Hotel at Philadelphia December 29,1915
- Part II The American Context
- 2 The Struggle for Order: Self-Government, Good-Humor and Violence in the Mines
- 3 An Episode of Early California Life: The Squatter Riot of 1850 in Sacramento
- 4 The Settlers at Oakfield Creek
- 5 The Pacific Coast: A Psychological Study of the Relations of Climate and Civilization
- 6 William James and the Philosophy of Life
- Part III The European Background
- 7 Shelley and the Revolution
- 8 Pessimism and Modern Thought
- 9 The Rediscovery of the Inner Life: From Spinoza to Kant
- 10 The Concept of the Absolute and the Dialectical Method
- Part IV Religious Questions
- 11 The Possibility of Error
- 12 The Conception of God Address by Professor Royce
- 13 Immortality
- 14 Monotheism
- Part V The World and the Individual
- 15 Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature
- 16 The Religious Problems and the Theory of Being
- 17 The Internal and External Meaning of Ideas
- 18 The Fourth Conception of Being
- 19 The Linkage of Facts
- 20 The Temporal and the Eternal
- American Philosophy Series Douglas R. Anderson and Jude Jones, series editors
An Episode of Early California Life: The Squatter Riot of 1850 in Sacramento
An Episode of Early California Life: The Squatter Riot of 1850 in Sacramento
- Chapter:
- (p.119) 3 An Episode of Early California Life: The Squatter Riot of 1850 in Sacramento
- Source:
- The Basic Writings of Josiah Royce, Volume I
- Author(s):
- John J. McDermott
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
This chapter presents a paper the on Squatter Riot of 1850 in Sacramento, California. The scenes of violence themselves form but a small part of the real story of the movement, and the paper attempts to present a somewhat connected account of the events that preceded the riot and that culminated therein. The materials are drawn principally from the contemporary files of the Placer Times and the Sacramento Transcript; but Josiah Royce also seeks to accomplish what has certainly so far been neglected—to indicate the true historical significance of this little episode in the pioneer annals. He believes that the importance of the conflict was greater than even the combatants themselves knew; and most people are not in a fair way to comprehend the facts unless they remind themselves of a good many long since forgotten details of the narrative.
Keywords: Squatter Riot, Sacramento, California, violence, Josiah Royce
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Preface to the Fordham University Press Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chronology
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Editor's Note on the Text
- Part I An Autobiographical Sketch
- 1 Words of Professor Royce at the Walton Hotel at Philadelphia December 29,1915
- Part II The American Context
- 2 The Struggle for Order: Self-Government, Good-Humor and Violence in the Mines
- 3 An Episode of Early California Life: The Squatter Riot of 1850 in Sacramento
- 4 The Settlers at Oakfield Creek
- 5 The Pacific Coast: A Psychological Study of the Relations of Climate and Civilization
- 6 William James and the Philosophy of Life
- Part III The European Background
- 7 Shelley and the Revolution
- 8 Pessimism and Modern Thought
- 9 The Rediscovery of the Inner Life: From Spinoza to Kant
- 10 The Concept of the Absolute and the Dialectical Method
- Part IV Religious Questions
- 11 The Possibility of Error
- 12 The Conception of God Address by Professor Royce
- 13 Immortality
- 14 Monotheism
- Part V The World and the Individual
- 15 Self-Consciousness, Social Consciousness and Nature
- 16 The Religious Problems and the Theory of Being
- 17 The Internal and External Meaning of Ideas
- 18 The Fourth Conception of Being
- 19 The Linkage of Facts
- 20 The Temporal and the Eternal
- American Philosophy Series Douglas R. Anderson and Jude Jones, series editors
