Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-10-31

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whole Christian world if we deliberately in
oculato all our new States, and through them
the whole nation, with the loathsome disease
and make the American Union a curse and a
disgrace to liberty throughout the world
But how shall we vote Principles are
important but without men to assert them
they are pOwerless. Think what the country
has come to by electing a man of dough in
| 1852. Shall we now go back to the man of
wax whom we made Vice President in lS4s,
and accident made President While in the
cool North, how stiff and staunch he was
Under the influence of the warm South, how
he softened and yielded and took the shape
they gave him-and sent back to the North,
how he has stiffened again in his Southern
shape Shall we take him Or shall we
take the man of putty, that, cold or warm, in
any latitude, and in any hands, is as clay in
the hands of the potter Are these the men
for this crisis, or do we want man of firm
ness and energy and wellconsidered and posi-
tive opinions
We are not left to doubt that Col Fremont is
the man for the time and the place-devoted
to Liberty and Union from his bovhood-the
inaexble friend of the rights of the States
as they now exist-and inaexibly and always
opposed to the extension of Slavery to the
free Territories. Would you know if he be
real friend of Freedom, and likely to show
himself powerful friend if opportunity be
given him, land the same of his rivals.) you
have only to see what the enemies of Freedom
and the friends of Slavery extension say Of
them all. How they curse and revile him
how they fear him-how with one accord
they infer his future conduct from
! his known character. They even
declare that they will rebel against his very
election. On the other hand, how they will
allow no one to compete with his rivals. The
only question seems to be between those ri
walls, not which is most the friend of the
South they are alike in that-but which is
most likely to defeat Col Fremont. He alone
is the candidate for Freedom.
1t is, however, said that he has no antece-
dents. But he is a man of most wonderful
and consistent antecedents. Before he was
nomi mated his antecedents had made him the
most famous and well known living Amerl-
can citizen, with perhaps one or two excep
tions. Active and la0orious beyond parallel,
he has been equally conspicuous. In 1888
| twenty-three years ago-he entered the pub
lie service Of the United States, and with
only occasional intervals has been in that
service ever since. lie had then an accomp-
lshed liberal education of which the history,
the politics. the craftsmanship and the hero
ism OF ancient and modern nations form a
part in which he took an extraordinary inter
est at that early period, exhibiting and form
ing his taste for public affairs lie was edu-
Gated at Charleston, the seat of South Caroll-
ma notification, and was there during the
time of its greatest virulence. when the great
questions-the Tariff and Free Trade and
Protection-State Rights--the strength and
value OF the Union, and the construction Of
the Constitution, were discussed by the great
men Of the nation as they have never been
discussed since, and they were by the ablest
men South Carolina has ever produced
brought to the near decision of instruction
rebellion and treason in civil war. 1t was in
the midst of such scenes that Col. Fremont
entered the public service with mind OF
thorough cultivation, of wonderful capacity
and activity. lie came in, under General
Jackson, on the side of Freedom Patriotism
Liberty and Union, and he has never sweryed
from it, 1t was quite impossible that he
should not feel such an interest in public
affairs as to make him forever afterwards a
careful observer and student of the nature
character and practical administration and
policy Of our Government, oven if he had
retired Immediately to private life. But he
continued in the service Of the Government
lie received appointments under General
Jackso min 1893 3j and sc, under Mr. Van
Buren, in lS3S under Mr.. TYLER in ls42-4j
under Mr.. Polk in lS45 and 46, under Gener
al Taylor in lS4S. Having conquered Cali
fornia and been its Governor when the offc,
of Governor embraced all the functions o
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