The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-13

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.e-s,oa Did le ,eas of..s srci'esnt extend 70 bosb
disuiei,I
~As--er. I va. Information which my-ef received
from Colonel Hason- HIS fears a. understood MN
eoantsy 20 ~hich Liert O .Iespis was zonz
'Q8rsi,o- What people do 700 m-n thas e1?eet-d 20
be excited " the aPPe@anes Of Captain Gillespie among
Aa.~sr Ia ~.. coloasl Mason. meaning. mine.
out Knowing v~haf il vas and hereuy yDor influence
viih Com Bddle TO deiain Captain Giespies
sornlaon rreeivsd Of Lieut. Giespie, intended move
expected entirely from Col Msson
had no Information OF ms intended or expected move
from other ] was OF the opinion that
he quiet Of ie country would be best preserved oy Lieut.
Gespie not going into the upper district OF county, and
'Qae'ton. What the nature OF the excitement
ANSWER. presume that Colonel Mason. upon whom
devoy- the cvernorshp of the the day sub
.equeni his conversation with apPreh-nded thai
there might be produced objection to his authority ia
Question What people, Americans OF Califofnians,
do yoa mean us to understand being thus excited
Question BID You eHpec, Captain Gillespie to excite
insurrection asains, your successor, Col Mason
question Were you AT ttnt time on of social
with MAJOR Gillespie, and do know whether
Answer There time any difference between
Lieut- Gillespie and myself Whenever We met we e1-
changed between gentlemea there moth
ing further between know not OF the Intercourse be-
tvs. en- Lieut. Gillespie and Col Mason
Question. You said in your testimony yesterday, that
you thought the quiet (of the country wond be best
o Rai sS a yoa nsa by hsss ' x
psati~g him fro" goisg a50.i the co1nirgF
answer that the quiet OF the upper district oil
the country would be best preserved my opinion. by
Lieu Gillespie 40, going there mania, o
Answer. The civil law. as far the military author
Question What character had Major Gillespie
ordehy S a seditious citizen!
''On nooa OF a member, the cour, was ordered TO be
cleared"
The interrogation was stopped--the witness rescued
and the most preposterous reasons for an Illegal act ever
heard OF in court hushed up and suppressed A map
of the country is wanted to comprehend the lncohe-
rency of this swearing San Francisco and Sacramento
near 400 miles aPart-all American settlers at one
very few OF any kind at the oherthe Spanish settle
rnents the south, 100 miles from SacTamenio-oOO
from San Francisco-4Oo from Monerey-and Gillespie
going to one, both, all-don't remember which
and his appear ance 10 excite an instruction he who
had been twice lanced at San Pasqual, and once shot
a, Rio San Gabriel, in putting down Instructions .
Beauty of it was, that all this kearny swearing about
crossing swords with Bidde upon the
same point The point the cause for OBTAINING CHI
lespe According to- Bidde, if was the difficulties be-
Kearny on one hand and Stockton and Fremont the
other According Kearny, the cause OF the detaine
was not at all his difficulties bui Masons! not at
all dissensions OF the and navy, but fear OF popular
revolt against Governor Mason Thus. they swords
or, least they their tongues and one or the
other. speak with what the Indians call iorked
tongue But, to do Justice, and give the devil has due
conflict OF tongues, Bddle evidently had the advantage
had verislmtude his Subsequently came nearest the
truth Kcarny, during the whole examination, both d.
rect and cross, on this point OF Gespie's deainmen
seemed be in that state of mental dubiosty which IN
that same vernacula OF the south and west called
ing INTERPRETED signifies, ichnt shall say of 1t? la this
lamenabe state, that "membe OF the court came 10 his
rescue: and he exiricated has been told Now,
think that member OF the court ought to have brevet
Such reasons these, given for the detention OF Gil
han none Il was so iei by Everybody Besides making
the testimony worse, maize the by bringing
out Mason full confederate in the business OF deen
ton with BidIe and Kearny. That Mason who, If he
had had the fanes gmmering perception-a mere ere
muscular perception of the OF honOr-woud never
have mixed hi nself with Fremonfs as he then
did But that trhe compared to what is to come.
But e us not anticipate events ss subject nen rested sed
all the testimony closed with his au ograph ques
TONS studously prepared by HIMSELF stdiously answer
ed BY himself prepared answers and which the court
falsely and fauduleny assumed for their own, for the
purpose of cheating both the law and their decision
and thus enable Kearny whewash himself, and give
them for giving him certificate OF character
One of these questions related the detention OF Giles
pie and was framed to admit of general negative
answers at all points The court put IT. the witness an,
swered it, Ii not only took the rag of the bush' but
took the bush itself of the ground Fremont and his
counsel scorned to mix in such criminal farce.
They would not countenance such mockery of law
Justice and shame by asking question. They sat
silent indignant, scornfu observers OF the scandaous
scene and from that time forth the court and The witness
had The testimony their way Soon-ike the handle
of a ug-it all on side. And being the last
swear in the ral-hke the last tag in the childrens play
it was poison, and killed all it touchedand won the
game Provided land this is the time of provsos) the
Child added at the time of giving the last tag this poeca
distich:
'Tig, tag, toison;
My tag Is poison
Then the game won; and SO OF kearny, and the
court, with the last swear.
The proof that Gillespie detained, and that by the
Joint continuance of Kearny, Biddle and Mason, now
complete That detention also the detention OF
Commodore Stockton, Captain Hensey and other wit
nesses OF Fremont. They were detained above month
the start and only arrived when the trial OF Fremont
had been two weeks in progress u has been seen that
this detention only terminated upon condition.
namely to say nothing about Kearny and upon species
of bail certainly in American Jurisprudence that OF
giving Commodore Stockton security for keeping his
word of honor This is proved and IT is the rise OF
step in the enormy of the plot against Fremont But
not done with this business of keeping away wit
There another chapter that head still be-
hind; and, still cmacterc, il rises above the other
witnesses detained in the OF Monterey: the case to
be unolded is that of witnesses relegacd into the Pa
cifc ocean, and confined board OF ships The case
was this: when military operations commenced on
land in California, under Fremont, the young officers
of the marines and OF the navy, with the high
spirit which belongs to them, sought employment
in this new field Their superior officers gave them
leave to serve on shore and, besides those who went
under the immediate command OF stockton, many
Joined Fremont and made with him that skilful, dar-
ing, boodess march, which, in Its conception eIecu
t,on and consequences, stands alone IN the Mexican war
Many served through il, and still continued IN the
battalion after Fremont became goyern2r and Gillespie
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