The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-09-10
CIUDAD DE Los Angeles; }

CIrDAD DE Los Angeles.
April Is, lS47.
"SR: I am in the receipt of your
letter of this date, and in reply, have
the honor to state that I will hold my
self in readiness for a meeting at Mont
Grey, at such time as you may designate.
l am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant.
j. c. FREMONT,
Lieut.. Col. Mounted Bifemen.
nCol. Il. B. Mason, First Dragons,
Ciudad de les Angola"
"a day or two after these notes Col.
Mason went to Monterey; after Mason
arrived there, Gen, Kcarrey came down
to Los Angeles and hld a CO lvo '%s1tioL
with Lieut.. Col. Fremont on the snI/ct
of the duel, saying he forbade 4, AID
had left an order at Monterey TO shat
effect. Fremont soon followed to Mont
Grey. On arriving there, Capt. Tyler,
an intimate of Mason's called on Lieut.,
Col. Fremont, said he did not come by
direction of Mason-that he had talked
with him about it-that Mason did not
intend to insult him, sc. Lieutenant
Colonel Fremont paid 10 attention to
this-went to Mason's qnar;ers-was
invited to sit down-did not-:a:d he
came to let Mason see he las there
AID walked out"
Col. fremont soon after, on the 4th
of May, 1847, received orders from Gen
KEARNEY, directing him to proceed
no further in this matter"
Commodore Biddle, of she navy, re-
monstrated in writing with Col. Mason
on the improperly, considering the state
of public affairs in California, of officers
engaging in duels; whereupon the latter
enclosed a copy of his letter, and pro-
posed to postpone the meeting to a more
suitable occasion. Colonel Fremont re-
piled
MONTEREY, May p, I647.
"SIR I have the honor to ackuowl-
edge the receipt, on yesterday, of your
note of the 10Th inst, accompanied by
a copy of a letter from Commodore
Biddlc to yourself. The object of your
note appears to be to induce me to con-
sent to a fuI ther and indefinite postpone
mcnt of a meeting. If such be your
desire, 1 am willing to comfly with it.
trusting that you will apprize me of the
earliest moment at which the meeting
can take place consistently with your
convenience and sense Of propriety.
81 am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
q. G. FREMONT.
cool. R. B. Mason, Monterey"
This correspondence ard the above
quoted statements are found in q speech
of Col. BENTON, delivered in a secret
session of the Senate, and reported by
him in the Appendix of the Congress
sional Globe in 1913, at pages 1901 and
1902.
II DUELIsT TURNS BULLY A-LA-BRooKs.
1t will readily be conceded We sup
pose, that a man who has been proven a
dw~list and guilty of meutiny, could read
lily act the part of a bully when an OPP
%portunity presented itself; or rather, as
in the case of Brooks, is a bully by ma
ture. As the Black Republicans have
raised a great howl about the SUMNER
outrage, and talked loud and long
about the freedom of speech. we ask
what they think of Bully Fremont
attacking and beating Senator FoorE for
words "spoken in debate ?" Bully
Brooks only followed the example of
Col. Fremont, as will be seer by
THE PROOF.
In the fall of 1850 Col. Fremont as
Hon. Fl. S. FoorE in the ante
chamber of the senate, "for a0ords spo-
ken IN de5ate," and that we may not be
accused of misrepresenting, we copy a
statement of the affair as published in
the Cleveland PLAIN Dealer at that
time, aud which has been republished
TUE FoorE ASp FREMoNr D4FrIcuL