Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1847-11-20

we" HFHr''
IN large number Of the members, induce The
depreciation, Ola me i harmonious, and th
anim1ls action Oh The s,6iect,
uHion aud fidelity is all ws SECURE toI
I~pnsura success, and we feel convinced that
we shall have both, in our ranks, anti that
30 attempt I ediyide the party, oFto sed,teI
ANY one EFom HE allegiance, cSh possibly
he successful .-BuiisttH,
Trial Of Lieut.. Coils Fre-,
mOnt.=The trial Of this gentleman ttI
lCantt.maftIal, has ebused considerable rta
ritemeht IN the country. We have MT
room 10 insert the while Of Il, but give. es
luw = copy This ewn statement
The orteFs Of June al lp4a, says, I'll
has been decided BY the President to bs 8f
The greatest Importance IN the pefidinE war
with Mptien. u tste the earliest rotsphsion
lof Upper California, An expedition with
that view 10 hereby ordered end ttt are
depigned to command !, III eiAable ynu 10
he IN sufficient Flree 10 eahdteF It stteeess.
Rllv, this additional F'rsp Bf;a thanaand
rapn has been provided to I0llaw Yoa IL the
direction Of Santa "a, 10 be uFdef yooa or.
deere OF the officer yot may tave IN som
mand nj Santa Fa. Should rou a%at,1ter
and take peHspasien If Nav Mexico, and
Upper California. OF considerable places IN
eithe', YOU will establish Temporary civil
COVE n therein. Sc" ..
Ftom these orders II IL rlesr that Nehl
skearny waa Intended TO 20 Wtti a baby Of
trbnps adequate to the eohQtiest If an TN.
conquered and far distant provintr, and not
10 90 with a body guard Of :ot!s hundred
mon 10 talte poaareai6n Of IA conquered
leountry, The right 10 rRtabllsh "a civil
government Ia California was Uhhn the
fact Of conqaest. Should the conquest he
made, and possession taken, then le wa
10 establish "a civil government, Now If
There was no conquest 10 he ttfde-sEf that
work had already heen dott3, and y civil
government air hay establithr9=tb case
contemplated 9y the order ecuIa not rsist
and thus, the orders having nothing To
operate upon. were null. Tile words 'con
aner aud take possession" Fan only apply
TO al enemy's eountry-tlle authority TO
eetabhsh a civil governmcntseculd cnly ap.
ply where there was none, And II more
than this, IL 40 happened thai Gen. keorby
took the express Of Gov, Stockton n make
h guide Of him to the conquered country,
land could no. have GIT there without the
aid Of Gov. Stockton, Il herarnrs a tglsring
case of orders superseded by ~eyeats. aud no
longer in force.
The first part Of the Gaze has .Rlready
been made out. When Gen. KeArny, al
the outset Of his march, met tho express oil
Gov, Stockton and learned that the country
was conquered, a civil government csla.
6lished, a Governor at the head Il it, and
dispatches TO that effect forwarded TO the
metropolitan Governments he felt: that his
mission Of conquest was 1t an end-tha
his orders were supcrsedsa by events, ant
Immediately acted upon that conviction
He turned back part Of his force, counter
InNnded another part, reduced his troops to
an escort Of one hundred dragons, took
GOV. Stockton's express for a guide, ant
went on, not TO conquer, but to take posses.
sion Of q conquest alreedy made, and to
dspossess, not a Mexican, but an Ameri
can Governor. This has been already
shown, and thereby a point gained to b.
used ia the defence.
The second part OF tkh same point d
defcnce remains TO be shown. namely, tina
Gen. kearny could not. have got TO thu
conquered country, nor tp the presence d
Sthe American Governor svbom he was 60.
ing to replace, without tho aid OF that Gov
ernor that far from feSonqering The
country, he was not evea Ible 10 getto it
The questions already put were Intended L
go to the establishment Of ,bas position
and few others, intended TO follow ii, wer,
meant fcr the same purpose. Direct testi
mony, tolhe offered hereafter, vhs intendet