Well, it’s been a while.
That was a campaign slogan in the war of 1812.
I want to carve it for a cottage on the ocean in Maine, whose owner has been kind.
Originally, there was a large redwood carving. It was huge.
It got stolen. I even found out who did it (years after it happened).
A much similar image is on the roof, but badly fading.
Just inside the door to the restaurant (referred to as GAFCO by the locals) is a relief carving of the basic image with the saying.
We can thank guys like Richard Henry Dana Jr. for the "sailors rights" portions of the [Title 46] shipping code. Around the 100's, for the most part, for the historical laws which he most influenced.
Dana never made it ashore at Morro Bay or Avila area, but his brother (or cousin?) married into a Spanish land grant family in the nearby area, leaving behind the what is the now historic "Dana Adobe" in Nipomo, CA.
Richard also wrote Two Years Before the Mast, detailing his experiences as a sailor in the hide-packing trade, arriving at California in 1836-1837. It's an interesting read. "Richard Henry Dana Jr., sometime after his return to the East Coast went on to become a lawyer, thus the tie-in with the shipping code which he influenced -- and if my memory was keener --- I could point to which articles of code he is credited with writing, as for treatment of sailors. He may have helped shape later laws, too, but that's even murkier to me, and no directly mentioned in the wiki link, either