New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-07
FREMONT IN CALIFORNIA.
PERSONAL RECoLLECTIoNS OF ONE OF
HIS MEN.

| ITS enemies, but one Of unfeiened satisfaction TO
| d @nds that he has had no political experience.
a. only accusation against him to which he can
| nl.,s r.ss> with al bis heart. II ia. indeed 80 mrc n
=, ar 49,, have dwelt in California since 1851 and
sc.,sa n. q. uu,ing influences Of political hfe, ,hst
] his fricpds eanro. 700 highiy estimate H. iaN'a
/ -, 18th ~, causes Of bis defeat in both
the political per,-is u "S history tn'y al
fyd the highest ASA ''rt NJ moral purity
| asi correct principles. "o'e'h"'
| - % Ts,,o., NJ. aa pose Of forming q
~ =, uc.. =. (, ishes Of the free set
49, ,hsr he was. burned ont :. the country. and
Souther, drugoon ctr set 40 people. win au'
,bority fom Secretary Buchanan TO k~ oscA popular
.c,;on IN Ne Territory He irSf "'su states
Senator rom Califoms long snougL ~ "''iy inc
| va,mest expectations of his f1snds, len VI! "nS
enough 20 pe-rit the formation of consl 'sacy 'S
his foes at hone based sls wei tnown spp~ "'on
70 southern es-lasive inter cts in California, snh MS
manly de,t station of party sSbservi, ney, CAV ana
,unnirr From such polics experience as th1 OF ne
winter of ls-5i at the capital IT Calf mia, Nj Fro-
mon, made haste :, withdraw. He had ceased " be-
candidate for ressr,ion whet Mr.. S.'saker Jshn
RieLr pronourced he "LegiS. stare N 4 Ihousa'd
Dneks adjourned, snd his political carew happily
ended where that OF the latter Individual ami the
dark reign Of vinany--eUdDg IN J ssanrs-V'ach a'-
eompanied 1t, began.
From this period ti-s subject O these chapters
passes into an experience not less ID and e,niiG
than hs previous life, because it is relatcd ehietN win
private interests and purs sts. And hire, at tie eu
minating pont--thc flower Vi his fame and his nah
| hood-in full view of the highest earthly rewMf ut
genius patriotism and enterprise, the W Ser Is proud
| to leave him-ppud, not an early Imrer md
follower q his fame to the Nids of the West, nor ~
one of the little band who josed their tcrunes WIN
his in unes when To be II femont mar : was le
safe but quite as honorable, "a now, but proud "a {,
citizen of the State which his administrative, ~
Governor, would have rescued from many wills. and
again should he be President viii turn ba,t 10 the
Free principles which he planted ON her soil and en-
| bodied in her Constitution But, before par NJ with
his old communicable trusts, upon the thr shod Of
his GROWING SUCCESSIVE deems not inappropriate to
turn aside and notice briefly the ISLANDERS and impo-
stions with which his enemies have sought to disquahy
| him for the nations choice.
The irst of the latter order of assaults urged among
the conservatives of the country immediately on hs
| nomination, has youth. Forgetting the maxim OF
| Confucius that in Learning, youth and age pass for
| nothing; the best informed take the precedence
this plea set up but it disappeared like ost~"rk
| when the public began to be acquainted with the deeds
| of the youthful commander HIS biography sileneed
the objection, when for the first time 1t was culed n
the pages of our national history, where ii had been
smothered between the osteDtaous deeds Of older gem
| erals and commanders. And the "rashnoss' with
| which the exploits of this young man were then
| charged also became less Objectionable when it
shown that its fruits the prevention of British
| dominion on the western coast of America, and the
&c nqaest and las has been in these pages tho
| deiyerance of California from Slave bondage. Fol
lowing these mpositions came the old qusrrels with
| Cob Fremonts claim to the conquest of California,
revived 10y the old parties viz: Commoc ore Stockton.
bis ficen and bographers, one side on the other.
| the truth If history.
| This dispute l have said, is an old one. II was
raised in California during the period OF the war, and
settled there all thought, with Meryines defeat,
| and the consequences which followed IT has been
settled here for all practical purposes, by Mr.. But
| chanan. But, lest the believers Of that gentleman
should be less numerous than is desirable for the truth
of the matter at ISSUE wish 10 enter here statement
| based on representations that cannot 60 amiss-the
testimony of those who were on the spot when the
proper appoonment of the fame Of the conquest was
being determined Iappeal To every resident Of Calf
foinia during the period embraced in the dispute land
there are several new in the Eastern States 20 answer
the native foe did not keep the field still retaining his
arms and numbers and nearly all in state Of active
hostility resolved a. Pco declared to submit
10 the terms OF peace held out by Stockton, and only
retire to their homes after they had laid down their
arms and acceded to the terms OF the capitulntion To
Col. Fremont at Couengo This same Pco moreover,
| who repulsed with such slaughter Gen, keany Mt
San Pascual and who really the master-spirt ut
the rebellion Flores being only the nominal leader
the COMPROMISE Of two contendmg factions Here il
| the testimony of Thos, o. Larkin, United States Con-
sui in California before the war; and who detained
as prisoner az Los Angeles mp to the hour Of the en-
| try Of Com. Stockton and Gen. Keamy II ia a part
| of the Journal OF his Imprsonmeut,' published IN
| 1876:
Com Stockton and Gen Keainy entered the Pn-
eblo de los Angeles the 10th of January Until the
| moment of his entry Tie STREETS tHH ~ drm,d
| men, who soon disappeared On the lIth Gen. fiofos
| and some thirty others mark only thirty deserted
from the battalion in the night and fled 10 Sonora.
On the 18Th Don Andreas Pico collected the forces to-
peher within few miles of Lieut.. Col Fremont, and
obtained a cspituation which enabled every Caliioi
| Dian to retire in peace to his rancho
| The war in California Is now over Ihey
have had nine hundred under arms.
Perfect knowledge Of every bill and valley, and no
Ter contemDftOr foreign mjdntry espeeiaiIy sedmeR
This is the evidence OF gentleman who was then
and afterward an active friend and sympathzer with
| the officers of the squadron the Pacific. II -
not necessary to 90 further Com. soat only raised
| the flag when he heard that Fremont master u
the country north of San Francisco Bay Castro only
| retired when Fremont and his rihemen reached Ia
vicinity Tie Cal fornans during the war fed ~. ~
| where before the approach Of FreG.ont, bu gt'c
| stockton and his officers battle whenever In'ted'
Thee are the facts Of history and they chaenge con-
| tradictop
And now come to the bodest Of all the impositoks