The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1881-12-10
Gen. Freeman Slightly Riled.

Gen. Freeman Slightly RiIed.
The following appeared as paid
advertisement in the last number of
the Mining Gazette. The RECORD
Willingly prints it free of charge:
A CARD.
The RECORDS report of my remarks in
presenting the ladies' hsg TO the collegiate
and military institute is a .sforcible feeblc''
effort ut satire, and in many respects like a
'suppressio veri," and an "expressio fall
81 - as all must know who were present on
the occasion.
In the same paper commenting on nv le-
gal argument in the college injunction case,
l find the following:
'sThe RECORD does not agree with Gen.
Freeman, that the county commissioners
are above the law, and cannot be enioined.n
The RECORD is simply ''topsi turvey"
here. Obtuse and Opaque indeed must be
the legal 'common-tater'' who derives such
thoughts from me. My argument was real
ly the reyerse-that the county commits
sioners were protected by the law-acting
in concert with it, and therefore the in
junction improyidcntly granted.
The further legal comments of the REC
ORD on the same subject throws Lord Ba-
con, Blackstone, Story aud Kent entirely
In the shade. Indeed for some time past,
''the wonder was and much the wonder
grew; that ONE SMALL HEAD should carry
all it knew"
RECORD where it belongs. in an ASYLUM
The imprecation of Governor Wise of
Virginia. on bully or braggart, who inter-
rrpted him on the floor Of congress, may
not'b inappropriate here. Pointing and
shaking his long bony finger at the culprit
he said: ''1f ignorance, impudence and
yulgarity constitute blackguard, there
stands one.r
My apology to the public for this notice
of an asp whose poison saliva falls Oh its
own monumental chin, may be found in
the fact that three recent occasions,
when, on the invitation of the friends of
The college, have appeared in their behalf.
the RECORD, not reporting my own re-
marks has substituted its own, attributed
to me, and idiot1ikc laughed at itself.
JOHN d. FREEMAN.
CANON CITY. Dec. 3. 1881. 1t
One would infer, from the above,
that the redoubtable General was
slightly vexed. His charges that the
report of his remarks are "sup-
pressio YER" " and are expressio
falsi" are most crushing. II is fear
full to contemplate such depravity.
1t appears the RECORDS courtesy to
exposing himself has not been appre-
ciated. Nothing could have been
more damaging to the General than
to have reported him literally. The
following is an exact copy of the
peroration which he furnished as an
after thought, the next day. OF
course it was not spoken at the
meeting,-he said it had escaped his
memory-but he thought it would
look well to wind up with:
In conclusion, young gentlemen,
allow me to remind you that the ma
tional banner presented you by the
ladies' of Canon City, always gener-
Gus and noble, and who now bend on
you their tender eyes as stars look
on the sea, will be hoisted at your
mast head, the dome of your college,
from which point it will accompany
You at your drills and dress parades.
always reminding you alike of YOUR
gracious benefactors and of the
grand events it commentaries in the
history of your country, from the
memorable day of the declaration OF
Of the American independence of
three millions of people and thirteen
BRUSH colonies on the Atlantic
coast, 10 our present trans -conti-
mental position as the great central
nation of the western continent.
with fifty states and territories and
fifty millions of people commandina
and dominatinp alike the AtIont;. I.
and Pacific oceans with this same
flag floating and respected as 10 other
Is IN all the navigable waters of the
EARN, earth ana aaily ana hourly demon
mwsns ,sna,a.s sns pos.io -, 'nouenl, .ha.
,Unfarled her stan dard to the air. r. N'' 's ~
And ID set tn the % stars r1'es9 Of elory Of t9erey
Whew! What a sentcncet And
deliberately written out the next dav
as having been fired off at the bows
in his speech! But fortunately tbex
escaped it, or some of them might
have resolved to turn COW bows. or
road agents, rather than face such a
labyrinth of words. 1t was not
printed because the following in ref
erence to his closing remarks was
already in type:
"He then addressed some very i'm