The Kansas herald of freedom., 1856-05-03


The following letter is written for the
Providence Post but as the post-otfice
department in Missouri sometimes sWal-
lows up the contents of the mail bags, or
at least those contents do not always
reach their destination, offer it to you
for publication, thinking it will thus more
readily reach Providence. Yours. de-,
C. r.
To THE EDIroR OF THE PROVIDENCE
! PosT-Sir I'm the Lowell Advertiser,
of April / ith, find letter, said to be
taken from your paper, and signed A.
A. Hazard. The editor of the Advert
ser says that Mr.. Hazard ''has been long
and intimately acquainted" with "Char-
les Robinson" the .sGovernor elect," as
he is now styled, of Kansas" and fur
tber states that 1.-THE letter gives faith
full picture of the man who is now put
! forward as the defender of liberty and
the champion of human rights Lest
! it should be supposed that l am the per-
fson referred to by the Advertiser and
Mr.. Hazard, purpose to give some rea-
sons why some other person than myself
must be the "Charles Robinson In
Iquestion.
| In the the first place, never knew any
such man in California as A. A Hazard,
and cannot see how he could be 'sinti-
mately acquainted with me, and I not
know him.
| Mr.. Hazard also says the DR.. Robin
son he refers to was ga root and herb"
doctor, while I belong to the regular
school of Allopathy. Also, he says, bis
doctor practiced medicine, and he was
often called upon to visit DR.. RS pa
I tients while l did not practice medi-
cine, and have no recollection of ever
having seen such man as A. A. Haz-
ard. Not only must DIR. Hazard refer to
some other man, but he has no reference
to the Sacramento in which / lived, nor
to the transactions in which / participa-
ted. He says '.Capt. Sutter had sold off
two miles square from his Mexican
grant, to some thirty or forty of the
wealthiest men in California. This To-
cality received the name of Sacramento" /"
DC. Now, the Sacramento where liv-
ed was not within Captain Suffers Mex.
lean grant, but fifteen or twenty miles
south of it. The boundaries of his
lgrant were as follows: "On the north,
the three peaks and latitude SO Al
45h north on the east, the margins OF
the river De los Plumas, { Feather river);
on the south, latitude $50 49l 32il
north and on the west the river Sacra-
mento."
/ Latitude 38 Q 49i 32H north,' ac-
Icording to the United States official chart
of the Sacramento river. crosses said
river at or very near the mouth of Fea-
ther river fifteen miles north of Sacra-
mento. But to say nothing of the lati-
ltude, how can his grant extend below
| the junction of the Feather and Sacra-
mento rivers. when they respectively form
the eastern and western boundaries :?
Besides, Mr. Sutter published in April,
1849, in the Placer Times, a "Notice
to Squatters,'' in which he says, cali
persons are hereby cautioned not to set
tie, without my permission, on any land
of mine in this territory. Said land is
bounded as follows" &c. The south
ern boundary, as given in the notice, is
latitude $50 Al 32h, while, according
to Col. Fremont's official report, the land
upon which Sacramento is built, lies
south of $50 35n north, making Capt.
| Suffers southern boundary several miles
tnorth of the Sacramento in which ! liv-
Led.
+ Again, he says that his Sacramento
contained from three to five thousand in
| habitants when his '.root and herb" doc
tor acquaintance came into the city, while
my Sacramento contained but three
buildings when l reached it. Also, the
and was at that time regarded as public
Ald, and no one pretended to claim any
ktle to it except as squatters on public
land. At length, however, few spec
ulators,. seeing that a good thing might
be made of it, provided they could
make it work, concluded to obtain some
kind of paper from Capt. Sutter, and
set up claim under it. Accordingly,
report says, they got the Captain drunk,
and obtained his signature to such paper
as they wanted. Then they commenced
| driving the settlers from their houses,
and committing all kinds of outrages
upon them. The squatters answered in
1.-THE courts, but the inferior courts refused
to grant an appeal to the higher courts.
| A justice of the peace decided land IT,
tie of eleven leagues in extent; the ooun-
ty court confirmed the decision, and also
decided that the cases should not go into
Isny higher court. Such an outrage of
course: fell stillborn. Nobody regarded
any such action as final, and the qnes-
ton remained inabeyance till some legal
decision could be had.
Mr.. Hazardsays his doctors band '.pitch-
led their tents on the property of others.
which the owners paid from one to twenty
thousand dollars for" | certainly was
never connected with any such band.
i "This infringement" he says. ...upon
the rights of others, led to their arrest,
trial, condemnation and imprisonment in
the Prison Brig anchored off in the
river"
That. of course, does not mean nae,
for I was never tried nor condemned for