as any of the friends of Terry.  Secretary of State Douglass came to San Francisco.  He persuaded ex-Senator Gwin to interpose on Terry’s behalf.  Gwin dispatched Sam.  J. Bridges, Appraiser-General, to Mare Island, to request Commodore Farragut to meet him in San Francisco on Wednesday, June 25th.  On the afternoon of that day, Farragut, Gwin and two others, on behalf of Law and Order, met four members of the Executive Committee, in a room on the third floor of the Custom House.  Senator Gwin explained the object of the conference — to secure the release of Judge Terry.  Commodore Farragut then made the proposition:  that he would have a boat sent from the John Adams to a stipulated landing place on Market street wharf, at midnight; that the Executive Committee should have Judge Terry escorted to the landing place at that hour; that the Adams should immediately sail for Mare Island; and that there he (Commodore Farragut) would exact a promise from Judge Terry, before he left the vessel, that he would go into the interior of the State, not visit San Francisco inside of six months, and meantime neither excite nor encourage any popular feeling against the Vigilance organization.  To this James Dows responded on behalf of the Executive Committee:  that the Committee had already submitted to them a proposition from Judge Terry himself, to the effect that he would resign his place upon the Supreme Bench, consent to have the Committee put him on board the next steamer for Panama, and not return to California within the succeeding six months.  He added that, although this proposition had been before the Executive Committees twenty hours, no definite action had yet been agreed upon; the recovery or death of Hopkins was the paramount factor in the case, because of the intense feeling against Terry among the larger proportion of the Committee troops.  At this juncture, J. D. Farwell, also one of the Executive Committee, spoke.  He was voluble and vehement.  He said that the Vigilance organization acknowledged no authority to be superior to itself.  “We have,” he continued in loud tone and gasconading temper, “proved ourselves the superiors of the City and County, government, and of the State government; and if the Federal government dares” — He got no further.  Commodore Farragut sprang to his feet, his eyes flashing fire, as electric sparks in brilliancy; his face betokening his fierce indignation; his whole frame seeming a prodigy of the grandeur of human passion highest wrought — the incarnation of the noblest majesty and sublimest patriotism.  “Stop, sir!” he thundered — Farwell had stopped and sunk into his seat.  And then the heroic Commodore went on to declare what the duty of a citizen was; that which he should do, if occasion required; and closed his less than five minutes burst of withering rebuke and eloquent counsel with an impressive appeal to the other members of the Committee present.  The folly and rashness of Farwell had thwarted the wise intentions of the parties who invited the conference.