Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-09-30
Mrs. JESSIE BENTON FREMoNr.

Committee.
Mrs. JESSIE BENTON Fremont
Resolutions Of the Citizens of Charleston.
Resoied, That this community highly appreciate the emf
services rendered to his country by their eow-towns
man, Lieut. Col FREMONT in his late surveys and expora
ton Oregon and California, under circumstances of extreme
peril and pyaon and requiring the exercise of the utmost
fortitude and decision Of character.
Resolred, That equally appreciate the meorous
vices rendered by Col FnEMosT to the Of science in
general by his interchangeable yes, and energy in extending his
researches and discoveries in those unknown regions
Resoled That his friends and associates in with
the people of Charleston in general particularly admire and
approve the heroic conduct of COL Fremont in epeng
mprovoked and unmanly attack made upon him by Gov.
Castro with vastly superior force and the prompude and
energy with which, with handful Of men, he not only
defeated, but pursued his enemy surprising and capturing
forts strongly defended with ordnance and men, and
tuay taking possession Of the province and, with the Anne
rcen citizens resident therein declaring its independence
Resoced That, in testimony of the high estimation in
which his gallant conduct and brilliant achievements held
by his friends and fellow ownsmen, committee DO appointed
70 present to COL Fremont, in their behalf sword with
appropriate devices and inscriptions, accompanied by suitable
expressions of regard and for his person and character
The following committee appointed under the last
solution John E. Carew, Henry Gourdn. W. c. Gatewood
E. H. Trescot, G. H. Bryan, and s. Y. Topper
On motion of John E. Carew Esq, the chairman of the
meeting, H. w. Conner Esq added chairman Of the
committee
DEAN SIR 1t privilege as a committee of public
meeting of the citizens Charleston brought together for the
purpose of expressing their of the distinguished services
endered by you to country and the of
science to communicate in anticipation Of your arrival from
California through Mrs Fremont, the complimentary
luons to which we have referred.
One Of those resolutions contemplated the gift and presen
taon you person of sword ornamented with such de-
would indicate you and your children after you,
that citizens of South Carolina we take pride in greeting
you a who has done her honor and honor
country, by sustaining under difficult delicate and try
ing circumstances calling for the self possessed courage
prompt sagacy and fertility of resources the glory of the
onal coors and in another field less exalted by labors
attended with scarcely less peril, exposure and hardship
wrought out for your country and the world, explorer
and discoveer in wild and inhospitabe regions,
able contribution to the cause Of science
We regret that circumstances deny the pleasure of
welcoming you city, and rendering you in person
this humble token of OF your distinguished merit
and shall be compelled beg your acceptance Of it the
hands of another but trust that though shall not be per-
med the qualification Of delivering directly into your keep
ing, yet that will you the less acceptaby but
with added value from patriotic representative the honor
able Robert Bamwel Rbett.
We cannot dear sir feel that have fully discharged our
pleasant duty without expressing the rvent wish that you
may be long spared to the country you have well and
faithfully served and that in whatever field may be your
lot in future labor that keeping with past achieve
and desert may your efforts and cheer you in an
onward and upward career
We have the honor to be, most truly your friends and
fellow-cizens lSigned by the committee.
To Lieut. Col. JOIN Q. FREMosr, Washington.
WASHINGTON, AueusT Is, Is4s.
GENTLEMEN have had the pleasure receive the sword
and belt with which you have conveyed me- the part Of
my feowczens Of Charleston, the expression Of their APP
probation Of my conduct during recent Of my life,
and the further qualification receive them from the hands OF
Representative the Hon. Mr.. Rhett.
cannot imagine any honor which would consider greater
than that you have conferred upon me- any circumstances
in which that honor would have been valuable. Auv
most humiliating and notifying first learned that you had
honored with public expression Of your approval my geo.
graphical labors in remote Western Territories and my
subsequent conduct in aid Of American citizens during the
utionary movements in California From the country which
had been the Of the one and across the region which
had been the subject Of the other had been brought de-
graded prisoner My situation had been studicusy aggrava,
ed by every humiliation to which could be exposed and my
whole journey homeward continued indigny.
In these circumstances and at the first frontier village
received letter accompanying the resolutions Of the meet
ing in Charleston In the sudden revuson Of feeling, felt
indebted you for the Ct highest qualification have
experienced which the distress aud pain Of unmcrted
disgrace entirely forgotten in the awakened feelings Of
gratitude and devotion my country.
With all the strength OF feeling created offer 10 you
my thanks and through you to the citizens Of Charleston
whom you represent have been educated among them and
grown up together with many Of them Some were asso
ciates and friends Of early youth II will probably be long
before can have the pleasure to take them the hand and
personally make them my Acknowledgements beg, there
fore. through you express them my grste If their
kind remembrance and my great pleasure In having able
do any thing which has given them qualification and which
they think worthy public expression Of their appreciation
To my friends the ladies' Of Charleston, beg YOU to make
acceptable my warmes and most respectful thanks
them that feel highly honorcd Ivy their gift and deeply gratc
full TO them for the sympathy which prompted them make
t. With great pleasure found exercised in nv behalf the
generous spirit which has often distinguished them and
which has given them place honorable ia the history
the State The consciousness Of having once been dsn-
guhcd by their notice will always be incentive TO honora-
BILE exertion.
Having now offered to my eow-ctizens the earnest OK
preston Of my gratitude for the honor with which they have
that honor had been really earned by myself could not re-
main satisfied to pass in silence those whom the
distinction properly belongs and appropriate myself the
fruits Of their good conduct
The exploring parties under my command and The voun-
eer force Of California composed Of whose courage
and energy had made them pioneers in the wilderness cou
try beyond western frontier, whose spirit Of enterprise
had carried them find homes the shore Of the Pac
c. They tried men, experienced in difficulty and dam
GER accustomed TO scleance, and full Of resources What
their maured experience aided plan, their courage al
ways enabled accomplish. With interior men, the SER
vices which have received your apobnon would have
been performed and hem therefore, the praise YOU have
awarded Justly belongs They have certainly deserved well
their country and earned for themselves honorable men
ton trust that you will allow make il here and re-
specially ask that you will further permit to receive in
their namc and their representative the public testimonial
with which you have honored me.
In taking leave Of you the Of long absence from
the country beg you receive the Of my warm