Note 5 — Group III. GOLD IN CALIFORNIA, AND WHAT IT LED TO.
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New-England Emigrant Aid Company was a chartered organization under the laws of Massachusetts. Its history is being written by Eli Thayer, one of its earliest promoters. The men who composed it were representative of the anti-slavery sentiment at large, rather than as politicians. All were of unimpeachable character. Their colonies were the embodiment of the New-England idea, as interpreted by the motto of Massachusetts, "Ense petit placidum sub libertate quietam:"—