Reading Notes W5: The Squatter and the Don, Part A

DISCLAIMER: The following sentences are direct quotes from Maria Burton's The Squatter and the Don.

There are some enactments so obviously intended to favor one class of citizens against another class, that to call them laws is an insult to law, but such as they are, we must submit to them.

There was, and still is, plenty of good government land, which any one can take. But no. The forbidden fruit is the sweetest.

Work Cited:

Hicks, Jack et al.  “From The Squatter and the Don” The Literature of California, vol. 1, University of California Press, 2000, pp. 244-253.