We publish elsewhere in this paper a lengthy preamble and resolutions, adopted by the officers of the Colorado First, denouncing Dr. W. H. Farner and eulogizing J. W. Stanton, for certain letters published by them some months since. The Doctor's letter appeared in the NEWS, and we gave it place under our rule respecting correspondence. His name was appended, and he alone was responsible. Several of those whose names appear to the paper we publish to-day, know the result of our freedom to correspondents, when they were vitally interested; they will want no apology, and we have none to make to others. One error we desire, however, to correct. Dr. Farner's letter was written and published weeks before he left this country to join Sibley, and no member of the Colorado First could have been more surprised than ourself at that step.
    If the command had marched when first called--when urged by "Union" and by the NEWS, it would have reached New Mexico in ample time to have repelled Sibley before he passed Fort Craig. It was the unnecessary delay which caused the "necessity"--if any really existed--for "pressing" stock on the road. Even then, we were assured by the Quartermaster that he stood ready to furnish all the transportation required. He filled every requisition, yet the command began seizing stock before getting twenty miles from Denver. Subsistence was also "pressed" and it has never been asserted even, that there was a scarcity.--Granting, however, that a "necessity" existed for each and every article seized, the seizures, many of them, were not made according to army usage and custom. Many of the receipts given were worthless, and in many other instances no receipts at all were given. If the "necessity" existed, it is no excuse for not transacting the business necessary to supply that "necessity" rightly and justly. Government is willing to pay every loyal citizen for necessary articles taken for army use; provided its agents, who command the army, account properly for what they take, and if they have the welfare of the country and its people at heart, they will not fail to do so.

Source:

Unknown, "Colorado First," Daily Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado, Tuesday, 3 June, 1862, page 2.