The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-16

stances, which reserve foe my published speech II is
too elaborate for the present occasion when the Senate
beginning To be pressed Tor time, and when feel that
shall have TO break oil without doing much more than
breaking the Of the case Three divisions of the
subject and the hrst one but little than thirds
through! must omit and abbrevate and begin by omit
ng the whole volume OF the intrinsic evidence that
ablishes the authorship OF Emory in these publications
The publications were made: that is certain. They
could not make themselves that is another certainty
they could only be made by persons from California, and
Emory was one OF them, and the only that could
make them and, from his connexion with kearny and
the nature of his Grand TO the United States, the only
one dpt to make them; and the who did not deny
them at the time, witness the New Orleans Picayune,
which vouched his name) The persons with hun were
three; Lient Gray of the navy, bringing Stocktons
dispatches, who parted company at Havana, and was
present the trial 10 answer Tor HIMSELF II The court had
examined into this branch OF the question 1t was not
him The next person was Richard Taylor Jacob, OF
Louisville who had served under Fremont In The Cali
iona battalion and was the friend OF Fremont and gave
me the first intelligence of these publications, and has
since become member OF my family II was not HIM.
The third person Dr. Sickes, of The navy then
ing home to die and dead Extrnsic circumstances
render improbable and intrinsic evidence renders it i'm
possible that he should be the author acquit him, in
spite of the French proyerb Les absens, Ct les morris,
rays IN the wrong" There remains, then, nobody
but Emory, and him must treat as the author feel
justified, m point OF trmh, IN SO treating HIM And
now for the necessity; for hold it 10 be unjusti-
table, (and declare IL IN the presence OF this Senate
be in conformity to the whole practice OF my long
aloal le, my thirty years OF senatorial service, du-
ring which time have opened my lips to the peju
dice of any human being in this chamber except from
strong OF absolute duty , hold TO be unushabe
70 speak even truth on thus elevated floor to the prejudice
OF any human beMx,s except in the of duty and
from OF Necessity. Such my at present
Considerations. both public and private, render il
sary now | have been friend TO the army of the Uni
ted States, and willing see it dshonored am
friend to public justice, and am not willing to IL
perverted | am friend to my own household and
will not it wronged. | am not "worse than mn
del" and will take care OF my own house conspira
cy to destroy member of my family Matched the Pa
cfc has been brought to the Atlantic for consummaton
False accusation supported by false foul and fraudulent
MEANS have been contrived for his destruction double
plot, against life and character, going at the same
time, and the newspapers filled with publications to ac,
compsh the threefod purpose OF usuying his DEATH If
killed for mutny the coast OF the Pacihcpeparng
the court and the public for conviction If tried Tor mutt
ny hee-or him by foul charges and subsidiary pub
lcatons if tried These crimes against Fremont
and against humanity, and public justice The pubica
tons were made framed like bill in chancery, with
double aspect-ready Tor either event But was Ere
alone concerned Was injustice TO him the only
wrong slabs into him the only wounds Had he nobody
to feel for him on this side the long and lofty noun
tains which hid him from their view? widowed
mother to feel for the degradation of her only son no
wife to feel herself stabbed when he struck no
child of precocous intellect, and still precocious
moral organization, TO catch and to feel, in every
pany, every sound TO the dlshonor OF its fathers
athern-la mother in aw-brothers in law-sis-
ters- aw-no friends of early youthto feel their own
hearts torn in this daily tearing of friends
character, three thousand miles otf' old officers of
the army to feel modification at this sad termination of
and which they had hailed with much pride doing
honor to profession which they themselves adorned
40 friends OF science In America and IN Europe to hang
their heads at seeing young votary OF science, just re-
ceived into their exalted circle, thus bghng the bios
SON his own blooming aud expanding fame? Were there
none OF all these feel the punges of these dagger
publications. There wasthere was mother to feel
them, and unto death or she sunk and died under the
ntiiction OF the Tedoubled blows. The only but
which had been strained to the last, to behold him
once The widowed mother was still warm in
leath when the son got to her lifeless body. He
could only stay to close the earth upon her, and fly
back Washington to defend his honor, precious
than lfe from Kearny and his relentless myrmidons
There was we-young and sensitive-to whom the
light of heaven became hateful and darkness terrible and
society intoerable-who fled two thousand miles, to
in the wilderness ''the muneer in irons," some
out-a young wife, tranquil the day, when peo
pie looked upon hcr-convulsed and frantic in the night
when left TO her agonies, the heart bursting, the
brain burning, the body shiyerng: and J. her father,
often called, witness, but calm this terrible agi
ation--and these publications the OF all Have
not reason2 am not justified does not every that
acts upon the heart the head OF man mpel to pur
this iniquity and lay 1t bare earth will be in
heaven Vengeance mine, saith the Lord but he has
nowhere said that he all the vengeance to him
self and the sacred book shows US in many places that
he vouchsafed to permit part of his vengeance be
executed here upon earh and even by unworthy hands
feel myself to be 50 permitted, and must with the
task which human feelings command and which Heaven
permits These publications did the mischief, Emory
and Cooke the instruments, Kearny the source of all
And to the proof of this now proceed.
eNiuenCe, WHICH CdInol VIII atteSt
facts and establish the truth OF what have say The
authorship of Emory, and the completely of the three
Keany the head contrver-are the points to be esab
lished and for this their and words will be
the proof AS subaerns an Incidents Emory and Cooke
pursued it is necessary to go through them
get Kearny They have pay the penalty of the vca
rious position which they have heldstil vcarous but
not wholly Each had little grief of his Cooke,
the loss of the lieutenant coloneshp of the mounted
compensated by the brief rank among
the Mormons)-and for which he made campaign in !
Washington city, while Fremont making one in the
frozen wids of Oregon and California; and receiving the
place as an unsolicited gift from the President Emory
member of the typographical corps, eclpsed by one
who had not come from West Pont--(not the only one
about the court who felt that echpse)-and of whom the
map of the old Gia and Sonora road from New Mexico
California, explored under the guidance of Carson can
quite eclipse the explorations of the Sierra Nevada
the Klamath Lakes-and the Great Basin. These were
private gres which strengthened the arm and shapened
the stylus OF these subalten strikers and stckers FIRE.
mont has paid the penalty of not having entered the
my through the gate of West Point and now let Others
and especially those who have entered through that gate
pay theirs.
Major Emory denies the authorship of these publica-
tons He denied it under oath before the court martial
AT page l67, thus
"Ne; did write that article, and know nothinp |
about it,
And at page l72, as follows:
"a paper has been read the court rejecting upon me
ind vidualy and in my char witness in the case
now under consideration; charging with having ayow-
ed personal enmlty to the accused; with having made pub
locations or furnished information injurious hun with
being identified with the prosecution and under these
circumstances, that my evidence has been sought to be
withheld. question put for the purpose OF corrob-
Grating these statements was rejected by the now