Butte record., 1856-11-01
From the California Express.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 23d, 56.
EDIroRs EXPRESS 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
| az INST Fremont The contrary of this is
the truth that body not only not refusing
to aid me in the publication OF it and other
documents. but voting IL certain sum for
such purpose. The f,ilure of the Commit
tee to raise funds for any purpose, and ii
| portion of the reasons wherefore have been
made public This occasloned my card OF
complaint about the matter; and since |
may have been partly instrumental in lead
lng the Herald man astray, | take this meth
Od Of undeceiyng him
| 4 word or Two as TO the Heralds charges
of the pamrhlet being 'hbelous production.
nave sent TO the editor of thai paper, IA CIR
Gu ar. Titled History Attested' Facts ver-
Y ''i'u~.' In il are to he found the ear ds
and letters of several well known gentlemen
OF standing and responsibility, living in va
rious par of the State, who were office in
the California Battalion of Mounted Rife
men, Commanded by Major Fremont; to-
getler with other re- idents here in lS4C-7
thout his residing nose. am convinced
Mr.. Lult as previously fully posted rs
the truth OF my statements about Frem Mt
an before The Black Plague broke out nd
he took it, would have been indUrseG b, him
in full.
| do not, however, call upon nor expect
him to testify. under present clrcumstanc, :,
to the truth in the premises, on his own
knowledge and former convictions, but must
beg of him when den0uncing my little skel ch
OF Fremout's biography, career AMI charac-
i h., L.
Chronicle Of this city. and the Times of Sac
rament0, 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 coors. -
If have 'slandered' Col. Fremont, tho-e
who attest my statements are slauderer>
likewise and they constitute not only those /
whose certificates have been published, but i
IagGin dc emphaticaly ami hnoacngiy /
assert, Hiheteen tlcentitthS Of all the 0id" /
fcefs cRd n,en Of Fren'Cnts bdttuiiiOn. anu
others Of ,f0reiSn birth HriHg IN CdHfor- /
MIA IN 1886 and in 1917.
That this declarition of mine may be prov
ed, intend having. if possible, their pref
ereuces polled on the day of eection.
With the exception of about q half dozen /
in this city, and the same number in other
ptrts OF tho State to whom Joe Palmer has
promised office under Fremont, / do not, af- |
ter talking with and nearing from several /
hundreds, learn Of any more gong for him. !
In speaking Of Frenont's qualifications. |
they nearly all use the same siinIie--tha,
'he is not BIT to be a town constable, 9TH |
loves grade of an executive off )and could
not b elected to that post where he resided I
and was well known.
was not Iware Until Informed by the |
Harald, that Dr. Gwin had any of my pam
phlots for circulation. Certainly no man
ought to know more about Fremonts intel
lectual powers and knowledge of political |
economy than the b ,ctor-he having been n |
member of the Convention at Monterey in |
lS49 (to which body also was elected but /
did not atteud) when Fremont, as is alleged |
by some of his supporters, told its members |
how to make the ConstItution-in fact was
the principle Trainer of it (Which Information |
though | may remark en- Pdssdnt was never,
strange to say, made known till lately)-
DR. Gwin was also "A colleague of Col. Free |
mont during the latters short career in the I
U. 5. Senate, aud know that Owns esti- /
mate of his abilities privately and candidy |
expressed, was then and since precisely what
[ have stated in my pamphlet
Major Bdwell OF B lite, in which county
the Herald SAYS Dr. Gwn has been circula
ting the aforesaid documents, told me of a
sneering Ike sarcasm on the California
representation going the rounds of the poit
lcal circles at Washington during the fall Of
] S5j. The story is told in one OF my anti !
les against Fremont, published in Sacra-
mento paper in January 1851 | hope the
niger organ of that city will hunt it up
and republish t.