Oroville daily Butte record., 1856-10-27
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From the California Express.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 23d,


SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 23d. '06.
EpIroRs IMPRESS: In the Marysville Her.
aid of yesterday, the editor asserts the De-
mocratic State Committee sitting in this city, >
refused to pay for printing my pamphlet
ag INST Fremont. The contrary of this IS
the truth-that body not only not refusing
to aid me in Republication of il anu other
documents, but voting. certain sum for
such puppose. The failure Of the Commit
tee to raise funds for any purpose, and
portion of the reasons wherefore have been
made public. This occasioned my card OF
complaint about the matter and since y
may have been partly instrumental in Lead
ing the Herald man astray, take this meth
odof undeceiving him,
A,word or two as to the Herald's charges,
Of the pamphlet being 'libelous' production.
/ nave sent to the editor of that paper, a cir
cuhr, titled History Attested' Facts ver-
sus Fictfons. "a il are TO be found the cards
and letters of several well knowa gentlemen
of standing aud respectfully, living in va
rOus parts Of the State, who were officers ia
the California Battalion of Mounted Rifle
men,' commanded by Major Fremont; to-
gether with other residents here in 1867.
Without his reading those, am convinced
Mr.. Lull w9s previously fully posted as to
the truth OF my statements about Fremont;
aa before the Black Plague broke out and
he took it, would have been indorsed by HIM
in full.
do not, however, call upon nor expect
him to testify, under present circumstances,
to .ho'truth in the premises, on his owIr
knowledge aud former convictions, but musb
beg of him when denouncing my little sketch
of Fremonts biography, career AMI charac-
ter, not to follow the unfair example of the
Chronicle Of this city, aud the Times of Sac
ramento, in venting his spleen and spite
| against me Individually and solely. for hav-
ing exposed TO public gaze, their humbug
Presidential candidate, in his true colors--.
1t | have 'slandered Col. Fremont, those
who attest my statements are slanderers
likewise and they constitute not only those
whose certificates have been published, but,
Iogdin d0 enlph0tfuiiy and kaouin eiv
assert, nineteen. treR tbs 0f fdHthe oidot
JfcerS ami nsen Of FremOnts bdffaIii0n, and
others of .foreign birth living in Caiifor.
MIA IN 1876 and in 1917.
That this declariton ofmine may be prov.
ell, intend having, if possible, their pref
| erences polled on tho day of election.
with the exception of about a half dozen
in this city, and the Same number in other
parts OF tho State. to whom'J oe'Palmer has,
promised office under Fremont do not, nj.
ter talking with and hearing from several
hundreds, learn OF any more going for him
In speaking OF Fremonts qualifications,
they nearly all use the same smle--that
'he is not fit to be a town constable, (the-
lowest grade Of an executive office land could,
not be elected to that post where he resided,
and was well known.
inf a1 hy tbas
Herald, that Dr.. Gwn had any of my pam
phlets for circulation. Certainly no man
ought to know more about Fremont's intel
lectual powers and knowledge of political
economy than the Doctor-he having been n
me nber of the Convention at Monterey in
lSl9 (to which body | aso was elected but
Iii not attend) when Fremont, as is alleged
by some OF his supporters, told its members
II w to make the COusttution-in fact was
the principle framer of it (Which information
tn ugh may remtTk en- pdsS0nt was never,
strange to say, made known till lately)-
DC Gwin was also colleague of Col. Ere
mont during the latters short career in the
L. $. Senate, and | know that Gwins esti-
IN tte of his abilities privately and candidly
nxpressei. was then aud sincn precisely what
Lhave stated in my pamphlet.
Ma or BIdwe OF Butte, in which county
the Har;,h SAYS De- GwIn has been circula-
ting the aforesaid documents, told me of q
SnceriEe Ike or sarcasm on the California
representation gong the rounds of the polit-
ical circles at Washington during the fall Of
1880 The story is told in one of my arti-
cIes against Fremont, published in a Sacra-
mento paper in January 1851 | hope the
niger organ of that city will hunt it up,
and republsh :.
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