New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . (^ f^m^4:^LcS^arguments, based upon the construction of theconstitution, Marshall, of New Jersey, in the win-ter of 1848, found gold in California. Then camethe 49ers to a free State. A period of most intense excitement followedthe gold fever. The compromise by Clay,the marvelous congressional debate led by Clay,. James Wilson Marshall, b. Hope Township, Hun-terdon County, N. J., 1812 ; wagon builder ; emigrateato Missouri; went to Pacific coast 1844; discoveredgold at Culmua, near Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 24, 184S;i. there, u
New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . (^ f^m^4:^LcS^arguments, based upon the construction of theconstitution, Marshall, of New Jersey, in the win-ter of 1848, found gold in California. Then camethe 49ers to a free State. A period of most intense excitement followedthe gold fever. The compromise by Clay,the marvelous congressional debate led by Clay,. James Wilson Marshall, b. Hope Township, Hun-terdon County, N. J., 1812 ; wagon builder ; emigrateato Missouri; went to Pacific coast 1844; discoveredgold at Culmua, near Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 24, 184S;i. there, unmarried, Aug. 8, 1855. 62 NEW JERSEY AS A COL Calhoun, Seward, and Webster, the recommenda-tions of the Committee of thirteen, and the in-troduction of the Omnibus Bill, the District ofColumbia slave law, and the Fugitive slavelaw, together with the death of President Taylor,served still further to complicate the situation. In the meantime the sentiment in the Southand in the North upon the question of slaveryhad assumed positive shape, and the issues pre-sented at the opening of the Civil War were clear-ly defined. The South contended that Northernvoters refused to recognize the domestic institu-tion of slavery, which pre-existed the formation ofthe Union—their slave property which was guar-anteed by the federal constitution. The per-sonal liberty laws of some of the fre
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