The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-16
staat and report from the senior surgeon present,
John 5. Griffin
al am sir, very espeetfully, your obeden servant


' ' ~ "W Il EMORY,
Lieut. Top EDg and A @"
This on the eleventh of Ja'4ory and notwithstanding
which the same Emory leshed before the court page
1927 as follows
claimed 10 governor and commander n-chel of the
Territory of California The rst act IN which ms fact was
brought my personal ka0dge. aud in which had TO
ebietauy, was on ne i2h Of January lSH received
Commodore Stockion- presume he sent II to me- u
through OF tile gentlemen attached TO his personal
sh, do moi reeollee which one was al ais moments
mander n-chef OF the Terntory of California"
From all which it is indspulable that Emory was not
ignorant, the time he wrote his Panama letter. of the
true relations either of Stockton Keay the expe
dton against Los Angeles and that his public assertion
of keaTnys unfounded pretenslon. at the hrst moment
that his writings could reach the United States and in
advance OF any other public assertion OF It, betays both
a knowledge of the dispatches which he was bringing
and mission for the purpose which he began so Jealous
ly and early TO unfold.
This Panama letter OF Lieut.. Emory Is also the same
that concludes with thus sentence
''The statements and mputations in the Californian
extra are therefore false"
Which statements in the " Californian extra" thus
characterized fase," the the account
heretofore introduced into this speech, OF Stocktons bat
ties of the sth and 9th of January of which Purser Spei
den declared himself the author and to the exact truth OF
which fifteen other naval officers pledged themselves To
escape IRON which disagreeable CONFORMATION OF his
false with the declaration of ,e OF sixteen honor
able men, Emory had to the following pubca
ton in the National lnelligencer of st December:
" NorE.-ln the hurry of adjournment the undersigned
neglected that the paper he Panama. which
the of his letter that place, anony
letter clipped from the Californian extra, presented
him by officer OF the navy. w. ii. EMORY"
An unruth, if he intends TO say that it was not the
same piece which Purser Speden avowei himself the
writer of and fifteen other naval officers endorsed an
eating OF his words If he that since the piece
has ceased to be anonymous he takes back what he said
OF it retraxt, without the merit of dlrectness and hon
esty if he means that he assents TO the truth of the
publication evasion and subterfuge, at all events
from admitting OF so many interpretations without Ger
tanty OF the correctness OF either.
This Panama letter was signed by Lieut.. Emory. The
next order OF date and place OF writing, anonymous
but shall show that It's material was from the same
source, and the person-tha person Lieut. Emory
It's author whether he did did not the manual labor
of It's writing and which is matter of not the least sort
of consequence. That he was its author shall show
by stronger, rIeagable proof than his signature TO
the Panama letter affords of his authorship of that auto
graph letter signature may be counterfeit, and the
paper appended TO spurious But the proofs with
which shall fx this authorship to Emory can be neither
counterfeit nor spurious. They are intrinsic.
The letter written to the New Orleans PIcayune, da
ted Havana, Sth of April, ls17 and opens with this
announcement:
The BRUSH steamer Dee. which arrived last evening
from jamaica, brought this place Capt Emory of The
hica engineers, who accompanied Gen Keany
California. and Lieut.. Gray, both bearers of dispatches
the former from Cen Kearny, and the latter from Conmo
dore Stockton.
Captain Emory and Lieut. Gray: these the persons
OF whose arrival the penman OF the letter was apprised
and one OF whom must have furnished him with the mat
OF it, 1t could not have been Lieut. Gray, for the
reasonwhich will occur 10 every one-that he on
behalf Com. Stockton, cannot supposed have
begun at to circulate falsehoods injurious TO him.
and behalf of his But it could not have been
him for the ndsputable that it relates to matters
which he could not have known and that there are I'M
misak cable points of identification in it with de-
tailed publication subsequently made in New Orleans
whitler Lieut.. Gray did not go Lieut. Gray then, is
clear OF IT. and it falls OF necessity Emory. ask
don OF Lieut. Gray for this excupaton is not to clear
him. but TO prevent all cav about the true author of these
pieces.
The letter-the Havana letter-continues
riyed at O
California in December found the Caitor"an' had raised
body and expelled the Americaas from the country,
obliged them to take shelter on shipboard."
This is precisely statement in brief of what find
more IN detail in Emorys report (p 1850 and neither OF
which accounts is true-the instruction in California
having been confined to the country south of Monterey
This is the extract from the report:
Our progress, was slow and pa,nia we though; War
on our eager sight, when suddenly burst upon our view
% %, as s from New
Marshall. We ascertaned from him thai his EN- poyer
@as prisoner TO the Americans in San Diego that IN
except that port, San Francisco and ontey-Gthee sea
board towns.]
Now this concord of assertion of thing SO untrue
could not have been without concert The Mexicans
not in possession of oneha the countryall north
of the bay of San Francisco and the whole of the Sacra
mento and San Joaquin, being in the hands OF the Amer
cans and of their hands since Fremont raised
the Bear flag at Sanoma All this half of the country
was, on the very day referred to in this
very I'd day of December-n the actual hands of FIRE.
mont and furnishing the the horses, and all the
material of for the suppression of the instruction in
the south, which constituted the California battalion and
for of which, either services supplies, have the
people been yet paid.
This letter agrees, moreover precisely in the mode OF
eXpressonthough differing little (by way of variety
in time and place at which the information obtain
ed-with the subsequent publication above spoken Of
made in New Orleans, and for which Major Emory was
vouched as the informant This is the extract
"By this Gen Kearny learned the Caiifornans had risen
captured the American garrison Pueba de los Angeles
duen all the americans in the interior Of the country to the
seaboard'
The next passage in the Havana letter is as follows
"Gen kearny met the enemy in force at place called
San Pasqua, when action took place. and where, at the
of more than one-thrd of the little band that ac
companlcd hm-say hundredhe defeated the enemy
cut his way through to San Diego"
The identity of this with the Panama account appears
in than particular. The ''less than hun
dred' of the Panama letter. is here turned into 'say one
hundred" Gen. Kearny attacked, beat, and chased
miles, &c, the Panama letter reads, is here
compressed into the breer, boder and more senentous
she defeated the enemy, cut his pay through TO San DIE
60" Both agree also, has been shown, with kearnys
despatch and both directly the point Of foresall
ing the public mind in relation TO the true character OF
the butchery at San Pasquaa thing that only person
who was engaged in it, the unfortunate side, could
have had an interest in doing.
The next point this letter is to the second branch Of
the business, which was the moving cause OF Emory's
mission. 1t is in these words:
81 am sorry inform you that disputes of a serious
ture have taken place btween Gen Kearmy and Comma
dore STOCKTON Stockton had refused to obey the instructions
Of ms government, declining 10 The command Of the
ctpu government of California 10 Gen. Kearny"
This paragraph fixes the writer, by betraying that
knowledge of the interior of kearnys dispatches ap