Esq.
Apr. 1, 2009
Hindsight
Governor John B. Weller approved the Pico Act on April 18, 1859, giving Congress permission to divide California in two. Pro-slavery politicians dominating the Legislature hoped the move would promote the efforts of Southern secessionists whose rhetoric was heating up in the rush toward the Civil War. The measure - introduced by Andrés Pico, a California landholder with his own complaints against the Ya...
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