Excerpt from 1848: A Year of RevolutionsThe year 1848 was remarkably eventful. To this country it brought the termination of our war of conquest in Mexico, a change of administration which elevated General Taylor to the Presidency and the Whig Party to power, and, finally, the discovery of the Gold Regions in California, a discovery realizing dreams of the fabled Dorado of the past, and pregnant with mighty consequences for the future.About th...
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