The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-09-03

~ mt complied WITH it being impossible to do So besides
Wing degrading aad insulting order 10 be gwen to Soi
Csmont within the time limited Mason sent loI RE
tcios In the afternoon, TO come 10 the Tavern 10 an
r m him about these horses. The brutality OF hls
eonduct was such that Fremont resented IT, linen
S;s foul expressions which the COURT martial would mol
low TO be told '.None of your nsoience, or Will put
am IN irons The sequel proved that the order to bring
o me horses was mere pretext for outrage and insult
y, up Col Fremont When brought, they were thrown
avsr 10 Major Saint George Cooke, and by him turned
over 10 be sold for one two, three dollars apiece ms
was dragged out of him on cross-examinahon page 40
of the trial
oueson In the postscript to your report the fol-
,owing words Il informed by Captain Owens tha
there were least one hundred horses at oah uaptie
The adutant said he knew there hundred and
dt,v few days ago Now do you know whether Lieut.
COZ Fremont ordered to produce those horses Within
hrief time and when Produced were they not or gea
art ot them and the pick and choice oil them sold Tor
,dae-say, some three dollars a head LIT, -
Answer. When Lieut. Col. fremont was settling up
his affairs at Los Angelesthat is turning over public
nropery-under the orders of Col Mason, quite large
Pnnbe of horses turned There was consider
he delay in getting the whole of them that were turned
,vsr they all turned over at one Tune the pest
,Dee assigned company G, LIST dragons and large
amber we're sold for uife being found in very
bad condition think many OF them were sold Tor three
dollars or less
Naturally growing of it. In the first place. consider
Aason's whole conduct being that OF kearny himself
Ike began it, by calling Mason to do the unworthy office
of spy upon Fremont at the interview at Monterey Tie
followed up by the order he gave to Mason to go down
to Los Angeles and stand in his place over Fremont
He assumed it all in the conclusion, by the manner IN
which he interered to Mason when he found he
wanted delays consider it kearnys affair IRON be-
ginning to end and in that point of view proper to have
been given in evidence before the courtmartla to show
the malice of Kearny.
The three letters of Biddle Kearny and Mason are
evidently cousve got up III concert among them, and
all looking to the eXtrication of Mason, and not to the
laws of honor; of martial or municipal law. or com :.
mon humanity all of which would have required two OF
the concern Bidde and Keany) to have used their Off
caI authority and thar personal influence to have put
an end TO SO savage duel Kearny violated, in ad
diton TO all other laws-(n his order adjournng and
licensing the duel for under his order It was adjourn
ed and licensed for another time or place)-he 26th
of the rules and articles of war; which enacts THAT 1t
shall be the duty of every officer commanding an army
regiment company, post detachment, who IS knowing
to challenge being given accepted by any ocer non
commissioned officer, soldier under his command, or
has reason to believe the to be the case. immediate
IN TO arrest and bring to trial such ofenders AS Tor
Commodore Biddle, there reasons why he should
moi have inerered at all, where member of my family
was concerned except by taking position on the high
est pinnacle of honor, impartality, and humanity had
struck the house of Biddle in striking the Bank Of the
United States; but never after it down. do not
kick the dead lion ! made upon him in his high
and palmy state since his fall, has ever heard me
name him. say nothing OF him, his family, or the bank
The same reserve should have prevented Commodore
Bdde from interfering to the prejudice OF my in-law
on the far distant coast OF the Pacific.
rspEECH TO BE CONTINUED