The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-08-30


This conclusive "defencs' was lost upon the court
lis majority: but il will be lost upon the mind of anv
honorable man. in America or in Europe or here
after, who hears or shall read IT,
Ill The leter-the 10 the Adluant General of III.
nth of MISUNDERSTANDING the reason why the "eol
lision and civil war" postponed, also contained this
paragraph in relation to Commodore stockton;
IAape TO state thar the march If the troops from San NJ
ego this place Los Ange,s) reetany consented 10
by Commodore Stockton urgent aduce that he ,hod
leave Lieutenant Colonel Fenont unsupported 10 fg
battle ohe the fate of California might for long tim
depend
This sut-Kearny's Kearny! In the face of the fact
perfectly known to hun, that the combined movement OF
Stockton and Fremont had been planned in Septemb.r
about the time that he leaving Santa Fe that Sock
ton was only waiting, when he reached San Diego for
tdings of the advance OF Fremont from Monterey and
the return of Hensley from peninsular California, with
cattle and horses that. Immediately upon getting inor
nation of that advance, and upon getting three hundred
head of cattle and hundred and forty horses BY the
of Hensley, he commenced his to meet
Fremont and 10 close in upon the insurgents from both
sides at Los Angeles; and that he himself (Kearn " did
not even apply for place in the expedition until after
the troops were paraded TO march. All this he perfectly
knew Yet in the face of this knowledge, and in def.
OF all these facts, he wrote officially to the Adu,an
General expressly to be laid before the President and
Secretary al War; no, at the same time, he endeav
orng to nflane against Sockt ton disregarding his in
structons, that the march reluctantly consented 10
by Stockton The great poet of Nature has puti into
the mouth of the gentle Catharne of Aragon, as the
browning sin of Cardinal Wolsey, that
In plain English that he would tell lies to the King Some
may suppose that is worse than telling lies TO other
people But II is worse. The King is in power
and upon that e and does wrong to somebody 81
OF our President tie IS a power. and acts upon
the reports made to him, and may thus be made the in
strdment of great inlustce and OF this, the reports of
Kearny against Stockton and Fremont the complete
ilu stra ton.
This letter to the Adjutant General, while pregnant
with the sin of containing too much, is also aborive in
the sin OF containing too little II omits the enumeration
flAtfar ITp,ta.
those enumerated, and by the same messenger He emu
merates No |, being orders to Lieut. Col Fremont; No.
q being his (Fremons) "refusaF' to obey those orders;
and No g. being Stocktons refusal to surrender the civil
government to him. But he omits to enumeraie No a;
being Kearnys letter to Senator Benton brought in az
the rest were by his assistant adutant general Emory
full of kindness to Senator Benton, Mrs Fremont and
all the family and splendldly encomiastic upon Lieut.
Col. Fremont
The operations against Governor Stockton, with the
postponement OF the civil war: They had commenced in
wrong, progressed through niquity, and terminated in
great crime. II began with turning back the messenger
Mr. Carson, bearing dispatches to the government,
letters to their families from Stockton and Fremont and
preventing them from getting from the gov
eminent in the limited time, and which would have pre-
vented all mischief Carson would have carried out the
naval orders OF November s., which would have prevent
days-a fortnight before the contest between Keamy and
Stockton commenced-and which did not arrive until
late in February They were faithfully brought nby
Major Fitzpatrick but he would not spuate to car.
Missouri. There Colonel Robert Campbell procured
brave and faithful man-one of the Soublees grand
OF Colonel Whitley of Kentucky, and of old Mrs
Whitley, for she much of hero any of them
to carry the return answer to Santa Fe that
far he would agree to go. and nearly worth his
life to attempt 1t was at the beginning Of winter The
gorges Men and horses were perishing witness Lieut.
Albert and his party. Soublette saved his animals from
death by cold and hunger, by breaking and thawng soft
wood-shaving off the tender bark and giving TO them
to eat-sheering them with blankets and skins from the
"pess storm" He got to Santa Fe; but no one for
long time would go further And these answers, which
January, did not arrive until May. Previous orders,
those Of November 5th, (by Col Mason did not arrive
until February; and then fell into the hands of StoekoHs
for a month, and from Fremont altogether, in or.
der to entrap, and destroy him! | shall prove what
say when come to the next act of this drama
Kearny to go to California after knowing that all
the object of his going had been accompshedwrong,
if his going had been merely absurd and foolish; but
% e a S If
MIA for month, and then 60 home to Missouri, to spend
his time in peace with his family, while his country was
at war with Mexico 1t was wrong in him, after being
permitted by Stockton to take the place of second in
mand under him, to commence secret claim, first to be
promulgated in the United States and after the expedition
had been successful to suppantG Governor Stockton the
had been twice formally offered to him, and twice formally
refused II refused in good faith and not to take from
another the fruits OF preparations matured and ripe Tor
gathering, it was an honorable REFUSAL and comfortable
to the practice of the professonthe practice everywhere
and amongst extempoaneous officers not bred to arms,
but holding soldiers patent gift from God as well
amongst those trained in the rules Witness Patterson
and Harvey at the bridge of Medellin; witness Shields
and Persor F. Smith in of the bates-real battles
before the city of Mexico; witness Lawrence and Give,
Hardinge and Hough, and lrvine in ndiat II General
Kearnys refusal to accept the command of Stockons
troops were for the which governed officers,
proper would have been his conduct and just the COM
mendation bestowed upon it. But subsequent events
refusal to accept the command when offered as they ana
to claim the governorshp in not warranted by his
in the attempt to supplan his superior
in the chief command.
One single object in view all the time, and that TO
be attained by any means, matter how contradictory
or unworthy. That object was the governorshp OF
California Ito Kearny what the 'beef' to Johnny
Hooks, immortalized by Patrick Henry and William
Writ He went to California for the governorshiP he
thought he had under his 'instructons" and no
lances He wanted no more of Pico's "deedts nor OF
his "retredt the direction Il" of his "mdrfh
to San Bernardo at an angle of forty-fve degrees
from it,, round the hills; nor of Pico's ''rePmss,
hill nor Pico's position" after his defeat at the hull
which position happened to be that of the dog after he had
freed the coon-himself being the He wanted no
more Of these typographical vocabulary honors ana
remained in that mind until after the victories OF the oh
and 9th of January, and until after the captulaon OF Cou
enga. Then new vision before him-a new way
to the goyenorshp sole object OF all his Thoughts
That vision was. TO fancy himself the commander-in-
But just this conjuncture Major Lawrence arrived from
England and assumed the chief command From the
and mpaence of control which had characterized Give Don s
would after such with zeal and
h% and bare Justice to Cse
and he kindness was never thrown away