In the long and bitter prelude to war, southern transplants dominated California government, keeping the state aligned with Dixie.
Seventeen thousand California volunteers thwarted secessionist schem.
As war broke out back east, a golden-tongued preacher named Reverend Thomas Starr King crisscrossed the state endeavoring to save the Golden State for the Union.
Broderick, and public opinion began to change.
Senator David C.
However, a murderous duel in 1859 killed �Free Soil� U.
S.
In the long and bitter prelude to war, southern transplants dominated California government, keeping the state aligned with Dixie