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Excerpt from The California Mail Bag, Vol. 2: March-April, 1872 To resolve was almost to execute. They assembled in the evening, two hundred in number, and marched up to the jail. They demanded that the doors be opened, as usual, to the majesty of the people. The jail-keeper referred them to the Sheriff, and asked for time. It was granted, no one dreaming of resistance. The Sheriff was sent for. He came, but to the surprise of all, declined to open the doors or surrender the prisoner. He was Sheriff; so he said, and sworn to preserve the law. The mob laughed derisively at first. It was a joke. He must yield to irresistible power, so they declared, and if wise, would yield gracefully. But the Sheriff was in dead earnest. He said, You can't come in unless you kill me first. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.