Excerpt from The Pioneer, or California Monthly Magazine, 1854, Vol. 2 The witnesses, introduced on the part of the United States, are per fectly reckless how they contradict each other, provided they agree in contradicting the witnesses on the other side. For instance, Richardson, who is called on the part Of the U. S. To prove that there was no Pueblo, swears, that in 1835, the Ayuntamiento Of San Fran cisco held their meetings at the Mission of San Francisco de Asi's, and continued to hold them at that place until the war Of I never knew, says he, of an Ayuntamiento sitting at the Presidio. When I came here in.1835 they were sitting at' the Mission. They always sat at the Mission. Castro swears to the same thing in substance -and they and Alvarado and Lee'se swear that San Francisco de Asis, mentioned in Doc. No. 2, was the Mission de San Francisco and that the plaza mentioned therein, is the Plazaaroufnd the church. But Francisco Sanchez, introduced on the same side, con tradicts the whole of them and, inasmuch as_he was the secretary whose name is written at the foot of the documents, we must concede that he is pretty likely to know where it 'all took place. He says the place meant is the Presidio; and the plaza is the, plaza of the Presidio; and the elections took place there, and the installation took place there, and there they held their sessions down to the close of 1837. In 1838, they sat at the Mission, and in 1839 there ceased to be an Ayuntamiento. Looking at these glaring inaccuracies, what confidence can be placed in the testimony Of such witnesses? This is the very point in issue, and one which we should suppose could not be forgotten. Yet on these very particulars, which could not fail to impress themselves upon the minds of men Of ordinary inteligence, these witnesses, Richardson, Alvarado and castro swear to What is clearly not the truth and yet these same witnesses do not hesitate to swear to the want of genuineness ln_ the signature to a document written twenty years ago. We shall-not consume space in pointing out the various inconsistences in the testimony of the Respondent's witnesses, but those Who have a curiosity to do so, Can take any leading fact, and follow it through the testimony, and see if he 'can find any two of them agreeing upon the actual facts which they saw with their own eyes. We do not allude to the legal conclusion as to. The existence of the Pueblo. They are, some of them, 'ready to swear that there was 1101311610105 while others again say there was even in this, they are not agreed. But we presume that neither the court nor the public would be satisfied with the oath of any number of swearers on this point. They must tell us the things which they wetnessed, and we will then draw our deductions whether there was a Pueblo or not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.