The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-08

ycton on prepared, utored, and sided testimony
and was making progress the proof when that branch
OF the testimony was suddenly arrested, thus p l2s
MAYOR Cookie Witnsss-Cross srasi~ation continued
Question a. wha. Tune did you first learn from Gen.
tended to Lieutenant Colonel Fremontl
"on motion OF the Judge Advocate, the court was or
The Judge Advocate received with tbs question the
following statement which be submitted 10 the court in
''rhe defence thinks this question material. and if oh
eced TO- desires The opportunity to submit an explanation
''The ordered that they will receive the explana
zion ren the defence before deciding the admissoy oil
The court WAS then opened Lieutenant Colonel Ere
"a pa per received from Lieutenant Colonel FEE
mont and read 20 The court, as follows;
Mr President, Lieutenant Colonel Fremont is advised
his say that the question proposed not with
establish the fact of Gen keamys intention 10 ar
ed by his (Gen. Keamys evidence but belongs to
class OF questions going to show that Gen kearny made
his Intention oil his friends Lieu
tena Colonel Fremont, which persons have been sum
moned witnesses; that ut the same Time, the intent to
kept secret from Lieutenant Colonel Fremont
and his friends and if the the questions pro-
posed be put Qor this purPose) should be such the
questions imply, then Lieutenant Colonel Fremont is add
by his counsel that such will become
under branch of the defence which goes mpeach
the motives and the credit OF General kearny.
Lieutenant Colonel u. s. Amy.
"The court then ordered 10 be cleared. Alter
deliberations the court decided that the question: shalt
| not be put.
This decision was given without reason assigned by
the court-against reasons assigned by Fremont-and
against their act, the point, in the of
Commodores Biddle and Shubrick. The question had
been permitted and that keamy himself, with respect
to these two officers, who had not become witnesses
refused with respect TO Cooke, who a witness;
and whose connexon with the prosecuor-whose knowl
edge OF the prosecution-whose tutoring and training,
and preparing for his testimony Gf any Fremont had
right to know. The question refused; but proba-
bly,, feeling necessity for reason, the court, after
wards, different day, and at forty pages three,
further along upon the recordat page l65vounteered
one in these terms
"The court has deemed an inquiry the time Gen
Keany made known his intention to arrest Lieutenant Col
one Fremont improper collateral inquiry addressed to
persons Of oDfcia relations 10 the commanding
general but makes no objection to these questions TO the
members OF his staH.'
The absurdity and sel-contradction of this cr pos,
acto volunteer assignment of would be udicrous,
except that life, honor, and commissonthe fate of good
men-are the sport OF such opinions. What more absurd
than this coatsrality' What more preposterous than
the distinction between members of the staff and those of
intimate official relations? What more false than the
application of this unadulteraed nonsense? Were Bid
die and Shubrick members Of General Kearnys staff
And what signied their official relations, intimate or
not, provided they enemies of Fremont or intended
witnesses against him. The question was did he com
municate his design to enemies, and conceal from
friends. That was the point-the point to show malice
and foul play and all the rest, whether members of the
staff official intmates, was pure absurdity of the
courts invention.
| | now rise step higher, and say that the design of
arrestng Fremont was not only not communicated to
him, but that he was made to believe the countrywide
ceived and deluded into the contrary bele-and that by
course OF deception practsed upon him through seven
months of time, and over distance of three thousand
miles Of travelling take this step and walk upon its
line. The deception was systematic; it was regular
and mehodcal, in time and over space, in acts and
in words-from January to August-and from Los
Angeles to Fort Leavenworth and intended for
and lul him into false security while the plot
was going onmthe scheme ripening his life and
character The acts and words which prove this design
are authentic and numerous and some of them already
too well established require repetition Thus the or.
ders to Fremont of the first OF March-orders implying
Ifr,,ot .pIrp lonra and l. :
an officer under charges or intended arrest There
three orders of this kind Fremont besides the order
founded on that of General Scott, not to detain hun
moment longer in California than the necessities of the
service required This order of General Scott was FORM
ally communicated to hm-doubly communicated to him,
by recital IN stteTMby copy sent with the leer-and
all in the terms of civty, Kindness and confidence.
Fremont was so completely thrown of his guard. that in.
togo to his regiment in Mexco-procured hundred
and twenty picked horses-sixty picked men-procured
erked beef and pinoli-and had his way marked out on
the map-when he informed by Kearny that he could
not 60 to Mexico but still without the least intmaon
Of design to him, to bring him the United
States The testimony in relation to this breach of faith
this violation of Gen. SCOTS ORDER and OF his own-ths
cruel and perfdious disappointment of Fremontthus ap
pears on the record page 1903:
"Gen. Kearny examination continued
Did s ha, s had Es n
ed horses and GU ready CO. with pnoi and dried
to Taylors right, and thence his regiment And did
he not believe that regiment wonld be the way to the
city OF Mexico! and, if not, will you tell all did pass
if any thing in relation to going to his regnent1
"The judge advocate handed the question 10 the pres
dent with suggestion that belonged the cues
tons objected and ruled by court The pres-
dent not considering the question materially objectionable
it was put.
Answer In a conversation with Lieut.. Col Fremont
at Los Angeles, about the 10Th 18th of May lsi7 he did
apply to me Tor permission to join Cen Tayors army
He told me that he had sufficient number of men, which
there refused to let him co. What his belief was in
relation to the movements OF his regiment do
Here the refusal is admitted and no reason is given for
IT, surely That was time to give reason-to give the
intended arrest as reason-and thus account for his
own strange conduct in violating his own and his gen.
erals order, and bringing great expense, well as
great disappointment on Fremont He had incurred great
his regiment, believed to be on the Vera Cruz road
which debts remain unpaid to this day; for Immediately
afterwards he was ordered to Monterey, four hundred
miles distant, and thence ncontneny started to the Uni
ted States, without being allowed the least time to settle
ms private AFFAIRS or even prepare for the Journey The
order to repair to Monterey itself still further de-
cepuon 1t did not inform him that he to go on from
monterey TO the United States either for trial or in any
other way but merely inmaed it conditionaly and sub
Junciivey as thing that might become necessary The
words OF the order IS of the record If there are
any public accounts needing your approval Sc YOU will
auhehtca'e mem al once ds may be necessary for non
70 proceed from here to Washington atty" Thus the
form OF expression left uncertain whether he was to
proceed to washington, while the object of going there
only concealed but the idea of arrest or charges against
him absolutely negatved by giving him responsible duties
10 perfomthe settlement of public accounts cruel
mOckery For those authenticated accounts have not
been paid, and have by Keany been deprecated This
order to settle public accounts dated the 2sth of