Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1847-10-09
COL. FRGMONT's MANIFESTO.

ION City, sent Inc following letter to the
| Adjutant General, and caused it to be pub.
Iished in the papers. He has left Washing
ton on a visit to Charleston, in consequence
OF the sudden indisposlion of his mother
The Union says that the government will
&C, upon the matter at an early day:
c. STREET, WASHINGTON, Sept. IL, lS47.
To the Aaiutant General:
SR-According to the orders OF Briga.
der General Kearney, have The honor 10
report myself 10 you, in person, 10 a state
Of arrest, and 10 make the following re.
quests:
/. A copy Of the charges filed agains, me
by said General.
2. A copy of the orders under which the
said General brought back from California
to the United States my self and the topo.
grrphical party Of which | formerly had
command.
8. A copy Of the communication from
Senator Benton, asking for my arrest and
trial on the charges made in the newspa
pers against me, and which application from
HIM adopt and make my own.
a. That charges and specifications, in ad
dition to those filed by General kearney, be
made GU, in form against me, on all the
newspaper publications which have come
or shall come to the knowledge Of The off
ce, and on all other information, oral or
written.
5. That | may have trial as soon as the
witnesses now in the United States can he
got to Washington for, although the tes,i
mony Of the voice Of California, through
some OF its most respectable inhabitants, is
essential to me, and also that OF Commo
dnre Stockton who has not yet arrived
from tina, province, yet will no, wish the
delay Of waiting for these iar.distanl wit
nesses. and we will 60 into trial on the tes
,,mony now in the United S,at-s-part OF
which is in the State Of ! issouri. and may
require thirty days to get i, to Washinton.
] therefore ask Tor a trial al the end Of tina,
lime.
These requests have the honor TO make
and hope they will be found to be just, and
will be granted. | wish u full trial, and a
speedy one. The charges against me by
Brigadier General Kearney, ond the subsid
lary accusations made against me in news
papers, when was not in this country, i'm.
peach me in all the departments OF my con.
duct military, civil, political, and moralj
while in California, & if true, would subjec,
me 10 be cashiered and shot under the rules
and articles Of war, and TO iniamy in the
pu1.c opinion. 1t is my intention 10 meet
hese charges and accusations in all ihe,
extent and for that purpose 10 ask trial
upon every point OF allegation or lnsinua
liou against NE, waving al objections tc
forms and technicalitles, and allowing the
widest range TO all possible testimony
, These charges and accusations are so gen
eral and extensive as 10 cover the whole
field OF my operations in California, bolf
civil and military, from the beginning 10 tbs
, end OF hosliliies and as my operations
and those OF which was the subject or OBJ
> iect, extend 10 almost every event which
occurred in the country during the evenliu
Period of those hosliiIies, the testimony o
my trial will be the history of the conquest O
which has been heretofore pursued there
and the eiucida,on OF that which should b,
folio wed hereafter.
!, will he the means OF giving valuable
Information TO the government, which /
: might not otherwise be able to obtain, an(
thus enligh,en i, both with respec, 10 thu
pas, and The future. Being military sub
> ordinate, can make no report, not even @
my own operations ; but my trial may be
come report, and bring to the knowledg'
of The government what it ought to know
not only with respect 10 the conduct OF III
officers, but also in regard 10 the policy oh
served, or necessary to be observed, with re
gard to the lhreeiold population (SpaEist
Americans, Anglo. Americans. and Aborig
mai. AmeIvanS) which that remote province
contains. Viewed under these aspects U
, pubic interest, my own personal concert
m The tr,ai-already sufficiently grave
acquires an additional and public Impor
= lance and for these high objects, as we
= AS 10 indicate my own character from &C
y !, cusa,ons both capital and Infamous, i,
my intention to require and promote tn
s most searching examination into every
thing that has been done in that quarter.
The public mind has become impresse
} with the belief that great misconduct ha
' prevailed in California (; and, IN TACT.
Is would be something rare in the history {
remote conquests and governments, wher
/" every petty commander might leel hlmse
ID invested with proconsulale authority, an
&c protected BY distance from the supervisio
= OF his government, if nothing wrong h;
e been done by the public agents Of the I'm
y ted States in that remote province. IT
u public believes II and the charges file
70 against me by Brigadier General karny-
- HE subsidiary publications made against n
~ whl!s, | was not in this coun,ry--my a
~ rest on the frontier, and the premonitor
W rumors OF that event-lhe manner OF m