Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1856-06-27

reached Fort Leavenworth on their return
home, when be arrested Fremont for DISC
bedienee of orders and brought him to trial
before n court-1nartial.
As this Court held that Kearney was the
rightful commander, they found Fremont
guilty of the charges, and sentenced him to
be dismissed from the service. Mr.. Polk,
then President, signed the sentence as be-
ing technically right, but at the same time
offered Fremont a now commission Of the
same grade as that of which he had been
deprived. This Fremont refused. and re-
turned simple citizen to private life
Thus, dischafged from the service of the
Government, he undertook fourth explor-
ing expedition Of his own, with view to
discover a passage across the Rocky Noun
tains south OF the South Pass, near the head
of the Arkansas, which might serve the pur-
pose OF railroad communication with Cal
ifornia. He started from Pueblo, on the
Upper Arkansas, with thirty-three men and
hundred and thirty-three mules; but mis-
led by his guides all his mules and a third
of his men persisted in the SHOWS and cold
of the Sierre San Juan, and he himself ar
rived on foot at Santa Fe with the loss of
everything but his life. Not however, to
be bahed, he reftted the expedition, and in
hundred DAYS, after fresh dangers, reached
the banks of the Sacramento.
In the rising State of California in which
he had become one of the earliest American
proprietors by the purchase during his form
er visit of the since famous Mariposa grant,
Mr.. Fremont took a great interest. He
was active in the formation of the State
constitution, and in securing in that docu-
ment positive exclusion of Slavery, and
was chosen one of the first Senators to rep
resent the new State in Congress. A short
term of two years fell To his lot, and, owing
to the delay in the admission of the State,
he sat in the Senate only one short session.
On the expiration of his term the political
control of the State had passed into new
hands, Of which striking proof was given
in the choice of John B. Weller, a decided
Pro-Slayery man, as his successor in the
Senate.
Mr.. Fremont now devoted himself TO de-
Eveloping the resources of his California es-
tate, which had been discovered to be rich
in gold; but, in addition to the loss of his
commission, as the only reward he had re-
allied for his services in California, he now
found himself greatly annoyed by claims
against him for supplies which, during his
campaign in California, had been furnished
to the United States on his private credit.
During visit to London he was arrested
on one of these claims, and it was only af-
ter a great delay that the Government Of
the United States was finally induced to re-
heve him from further annoyance by the
payment of these debts. In maintaining
his right to the Mariposa property, be was
also obliged to encounter many annoyances
on the part of the Government which resist
ed his claim, but finally by repeated decis-
ions of the Supreme Court of the Uunited
States, he triumphed over all of them.
Having exhibited a singular force of char
acter and distinguished ability in every
undertaking to which he has applied him
self, he has now been called by the loud
voice of his fellow-eitizens in almost all
parts of the Union to place himself at the
head of a new, more difficult, but at the
same time most glorious enterprise-that
of rescuing the Government and the Union
from the hands Of, body of unprineipled
politicians, who threaten to subject the
country to the double misery of despotism
and of anarchy. May he be as successful
in this as in everything'else that he has un-
dertaken! And that he will be, who can
doubt? for surely every honest man in the
country will hasten to aid him with his voice
and his vote.-N 2. Tribune.