The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-19


.sv,ag with you the great respop bnity Of doing Tia,
hich you have authority, and Pyev..ftag lrom COS.
gag Nth fhs PreaidsHt' OrdoS "-(Leusr Of Janu,,,
This is the germ over kearny's own name m, IL
velopment OF ii is in the anonymous publications :,
above quoted from the San Diego letter, and in diver
forms elsewhere. Among other places. find il iu tb
ice mentioned some time back contained in the n
Louis Republican OF May A.
As stated in the previous mention Of that article is Dp
caon was not on the track OF Emory's route anJ =
not attributed directly his agency. Ii must bays
lad author, however, and the authorship must bays
been based upon information OF the posture Of affairs
and the relations OF parties in California II is wnltsn
in the hypothetical form, for instance: ave DO Ho
know with certainty what Gen kearny's instructions am
thorized him to do; but IT, supposed he was con
stituted," &c and il goes with its supposiopsn
and It's ifs TO set forth in hypotssis precisely what ~
other publications aUer. Ii is OF the same class n
publications, then; portion OF the same plot writ
ten for the same purposes-the biaekest oil them hadowe
forth in with appalling distlnctness subselvent oi
the ends and org mating, by whomsoever penned
in the brain, with all the rest believe fit wep
traced, il would be found TO be kearnys ownto be ba
directly upon letters from him, and OF which Emory was
bat the bearer. BE this as II may the whole brood con-
meet themselves inseparaby with him. the prime
source, that il matters little through what medium tbs
particular publication came TO light
In this hypothetical publication, then, have the I'M
founded pre,ension, which is indistincty set forth !,
kearnys letters to Stockton, laid open definitely Iquop
the passage, coupled with correspondent lines from Emo
rvs Louisville piece
St Lou. Republican Loassil, Journal.
at the hs,A
raeOa. auihgyiEed hm TO do; calOmia, with authority fo~
sorsor California to 'upg'sde stockton he S
il be appointed to e1erei'e unor'hiP Of The Territory"
ton sc.
These two connect the article of the ST Louis Repub
lican and that of the Louisville Journal Here is still
another passage from the Journal article and with it
passage from the publication before spoken OF in the
Pttsburg Gazette, both connecting with the extract from
Cooke
San D.yo Litter L,qi,rflI, pise, Put,Jar, nice,
Arrived Di And say But strange 10 ,s
as,sa Com stock .ss4 a. ssss ii. a@ssry
poeo, command The ground with TO r,eosnis,
Territory" from tAs Prsadsai." that Po1er.s
Let us also have still another collocation
s. Lou. Republican. Emory. Pnsburs E~Ory'. L,ui,ea
III as we suppose Gen. Kearly, it Although General
.,isS governor Of p.ers as governor ground viii sos@
California he uiiary OF from
s"s 1 cs ps,a PIX a'' .s ia: Gf ksalny r,
oasiy sirea coaao- from the President
dore Stockton" supersede stockton
the governmenOfas
Nov, of this Pittsburg piece will be remembered The
information for it obtained at Washington city
whittier Emory of the four who came fIom California,
alone Ii rests them of necessity only upon Emo
~. The Louisville piece, manifestly to every eye came
from the same informant; and the San Diego and the
Missouri republican extracts are, Just plainly,
sions OF the 1t happens, by this means, that
we endDeu 10 go 10 tHc source Oh Original
conception for Lieut. Colonel Emory states, test.
mony before the court martial, that his information on
the point given him by Kearny These are the pas.
sages of his testimony pages OF the trial l65 and III
"He General Keamv) Informed that he should TAKE
affairs his hands he felt himself suh
cienlly strong
"Qneston. What did you understand by that and espe-
ciay by the words sufficiently strong ?
Answer. understood by II numerical strenRth-physi
cal strength understood that, soon he got sufficient
oFcea sufficient body of troops-hat he would out
the orders of the President of the United States"
Question What orders OF the President remained to be
executed at that time
The order, of the President Of the United States
e. Iunderstood e 10 put Gen. Ksarny authority,
iceH TO retain Of the country against the
enemy"
Now, the " information" here sworn to have been
given by Keany to Emory is Identical with the " nfor.
nation which retaled Emory's track home, and
in all the other anonymous publications of the set.
We now come TO statement in the San Diego letter,
the like of which appears only in other place. to wit
in Kearnys testimony; and il consists in what kearny
relates in his testimony occurring in private
sation between himself and Com Stockton. Com Stock.
ton does not relate any such thing in his testimony
that il matter purely between keamy and Cooke
the latter deriving it from the former, Here the
tracts together