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

Kearnys sake not Fremons and to show the lengths
which be would go-the violations OF military well as
social obligations which he would commit-to deceive
and delude throw of his guard and to lu into
rity the officer whose rum he was plotting.
The shifts to Monterey. Fremont and his
Typographical party-czens not subject be ordered
by Keany, but who had reason for going volunari-
" wherever Col. Fremont went-aPpeaIed at Monterey
was wholly inconcevabe. Monterey 400 miles out
of the way coming either to the United States, New
Mexico, or Old Mexico. 1t was out of the way go
anywhere in America by land; Tor II off upon the
sea shore wholly uncohneced with the interior OF the
continent Why ordered there? for a purpose which
will appear and being new scene, the evidence
must speak. AT page $50, this testimony appeaIs-Cap
tain Turner under crosseXamlnauon:
Question. Did you know that Lieutenant Colonel FREE
and his men, being encamped in the edge the
OF Monterey, he Lieutenant Colonel Fremon) order
ed by General kearny into the and
and if so, this within too days before the
commencement of the march OF Gen. Keamy, his
Mormon escort, and Lieutenant Colonel Fremonts topo
graphical party the United Satesl
ANSWER. | recollect that letter was addressed by Gen
kearny Lieutenant Colonel ~ mont, which
left my hands, be delivered to- Lieutenant Colonel
Fremont his arrival Monterey, directing him
main in the purposes that all reoollect
about it, will further that at the time this letter
was given me, Lieutenant Colonel Fremont had not
rived Monterey and did not arrive for daysabou
a week.
Question. Do you recoect conversation Moniere
at that time in which General kearny directed Leuten-
Colonel Fremont to leave his camp and into the
town; aud We're you not requested by General keany to
answer. At General Kearnys request, a pitness
to a conversation between himself and Lieutenant Colonel
Fremont think he told Lieutenant Colonel Fremont
that occasion that he must into toun and
there"
tepret the points of this testimony Fremont had been
directed by Keany to repair Monterey with the citizens
whom he had employed on Typographical duy he did so,
and according to his custom when with his men, and be-
sides having money to pay tavern bills, he encamped
with his (about twenty in number in the edge of the
town. He deemed this perfect compliance with the
Tan abc He Uf xuba he h,l
been ordered TO he not IN the town, and had
been ordered to get in it, These verbal orders, then,
in presence Of the Witness Turner, were orders
cumulative upon the previous ordefs-and omnousy i'm
perative and specialize INTO the town and stan in
the town; and given in the presence of a witness ~
will here say TO the Senate-(uPon this often recnr-
of witness for Kearny when there was none for
the other sde)-that when was in the army no officer
could ask, much less order, another to be present as
witness at an interview with thrd, without also that
third officer having witness on his side, Chat things
might be equal between hem whether for testimony or
any thing ese without being insulted If there was
witness side, there must be witness on the other
and any officer who would have asked another to be a
sided witness, would have been instantly insued
and he had been nvegled into such interview and
found no witness the other sde he would have left
the room-just soon as he would have left the duel
ground when the opposite party had been caught without
second And here have to say that this mode of call
ing witnesses over Fremont was brutal outrage Of a
general his subordinatein which he was copied
by his representative, Mason. And | have further to
say, with shame that West Point graduates were these
most frequent wtnesses.-B But TO go on Colonel FIRE.
mont went INTO the town. and remained i'm the town and
the purposes for which he brought in was soon ysi.
ble AT four o'clock of the afternoon of the second day
OF this abode by ORDER in the town of Monterey, FIRE.
horses, in front of Keanys quarters He did So Kear-
nv came out. and viewed them--not reviewed-but
viewed them He had large collection there to do the
same-Commodore Bdde among the number This lat.
ter came outapproached nearsurveyed the men, FIRE.
mont and all, without speaking. Kearny commenced an
interrogation OF Fremont-the smile of ago his face
the Interrogation studiousy insulting Leus hayea speci
men, Fremont said some OF his horses tender footed
and would need shoeng before they could the Sierra
Nevada, and take the desert kearny called Mr. Femonts
blacksmith, most respectable man, his name Moore
(from Illinois, and well known to the senators from
that Sate-and asked him, in the hearing of Fremont
about the horses feet saying with of those same
Smiles people say horses feet tender when they
are not Fremonps hand, unobserved by any except
Capt Owen, who was near him. went upon his pistol in
the holster. Happy had been for Kearny ii he had
drawn it, and blown opt his brains 1t would have saved
him from that black cloud of infamy which is now set
ting down upon him, like the dark shades of night in the
vale of death, and which hide him forever
from the view q. hlS nsa Happy had been
Fremont if he had killed him But, that young man
made mistake under any Circumstances no matter
how sudden or critical the occasion, so he made none
then The unconscious hand withdrew from the deadly
weapon and Kearny lived to consummae his plots against
Fremont--The view was long one, and became re-
voting to the beholders Nearly all withdrew Citizens
both Spanish and American turned off from it in sh anne
and disgust Most of the naval officers present for there
were many turned off, Ii is due to some of Kearny 5
officers no friends TO Fremont to say that they did not
seem to enjoy the spectacle Bdde and Kearny alone
appeared to find enjoyment in it-This scene was
talked of by all who saw it; will it ever be OBJ
liberated from the memories OF those who beheld it.
There is proof enough in the United States and
before the court to fix the character of that ex-
hibition But what of that, to them' .'Sarued him
right" would have been their answer They would
not hear word of IT, though the highest cart y cir
cumsance to show the malice of keany and TO destroy
his credit witness and prosecutor. They would
not hear word OF it of the long and CALLING scene
of continued ndignities, of which that only spec
men, commencing at Monterey, the coast of the Pa
tally executed in point of form, at Fort Leavenworth
This brutality was kept up in the whole progress
the continents and all attempts establish by proof
baied by the court All last Fremont wearied out
with isolated attempts to get questions put which would
show the calling ndgnities to which he had been sub
argument, and to general application, cover all the
instances OF outrage and malice the part of Kearny
from the Pacific TO the Mississippi This paper was read
before the court and, TO make long story Short alb
breviae labor will here present it $50 of the printed
trial.
Lieut. Col Fremont read to the court the following pa
per:
"Mr President: Lieut.. Col Fremont states that he ex
poets to be able to that, the I4h June last
New elveta in California, the return march of Brig
Gen Keany the United States wrote and caused 10
be delivered TO him letter, of which the following is
copy made at the tine to wits
"NuEvA HELvEriA, UPPER CALIFORNIA,
"June IT, 1917.
"SIR; In "A communication which received from your
sell, IN March OF the present year, informed that Won
had been directed by the not to detan
me in this country against wishes longer than the abso
lutte necessities OF the service might require.
Pfva,e letters, in which have entire confidence f,r
Their inform that the President plea sed TO d
rect that should be permitted the choice Of joining my