Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1856-08-16
MISCELLANY.
COL. FREMoNT,s RELIGION.

LETTER fRoM 1t. GOV RAYMOND OF NEW YORK.
The friends of Col Fremont publish the fol-
lowing letter from Mr. Raymond, editor Of tho
New York Daily Times, and lieutenant gov
ernor Of New York, as a full exposure Of the
stupid misrepresentation of the Fillmore fac
ton in regard to Col Fremonts religious belief
and connections. The perseverance, of the
American opposition in repeating this falsehood
in all imaginable forms, is one of the most ex-
traordinary bits of electioneering fraud we ever
witnessed. They ring the changes on it con-
stanily; bnt yet produce no sort Of reliable ev-
dence in support. The charge is wickeJ-ihe
testimony to it weak and more wicked.
NEw YoRK, Tuesday, July 30, 1856.
My Dear Sir: Your favor Of the lst lst.,
ought to have been answered long ago, but ab-
sence and business must plead my excuse.
am not surprised 10 hear that the rumors
so widely circulated concerning Col Fremont's
religion should have the effect ofcausing some,
who sympatize thoroughly with his sentiments
in regard TO the extension Of slavery, to hesi-
tate about pledging themselves 10 his support.
But so far as ihose rumors assert, OF imply,
that he is Roman Catholic, they are without
the slightest foundation in fact.
presume that, from proper motives Of deli
cacy and self-respect, Col. Fremont will no,
publish anything himself on the subject. or take
any part personally in the canvass. Bat he
converses with the utmost freedom upon these
topics, as upon all others; he has no desire or
disposition to practice any concealmcnt of his
religions opinions; and have no reasnn to sup
pose that he would desire others To do so in his
behalf.
Col Fremont is not now nor has he ever been,
a Roman Catholic. His father dying when he
was five years old, he was educated exclusively
in Protestant schools, and at the age Of sixteen
was confrIei of his own motion aad from sin
cere conviction, in the Protestant Episcopal
church. of which he has continued ever since
to be member. Not One of his own children
has ever been sent to Roman Catholic school,
though ] believe an adopted daughter attended
for a short time the seminary al Georgetown,
of which the pupils generally are largely Prot
estant That this ought not TO be construed to
his prejudice, even by the most jealous Proies-
tants, is sufficiently shown by the fact that Mr.
Fillmore sent his own daughter TO Roman
Catholic seminary at Bui1ao for purposes Of
special instruction; yet no one ever inferred
from this circumstance that he himself was not
Protestant.
Col. Fremont's S marriage was celebrated by
Catholic priest but this was in consequence Of
the difficulty il not impossibilhy of procuring
any other clergyman to perform it. The cere-
mony was in private room, was very short
and simple, and did not imply any assent, on
his part or that of his wife, TO the doctrine of
the Roman Catholic church nor was either of
them required or requested on that occasion to
give any pledges that their children should be
brought up in that faith. They have all been
baptized and educated in the Protestant Episco-
pal church.
The statements which Alderman Fulmer of
this city is said to have authorized TO the effect
that in March, 1859, he saw Colonel Fremont
joining in the religious services of Roman
Catholic church at Washington, and that in a
subsequent conversation with him at the dinner
at Browns Hotel, Colonel Fremont declared
himslf Catholic and a believer in the peculiar
doctrines of that church, are entirely untrue.
Col. Fremont was not in the city Of Wash
ington at all during the year 1852. He left
New York for California in March, 1861. lie
returned in the steamer George Law, which
reached New York on the 9th Of March, 1859;
and remaining in that city four days, he leh on
the 10th, in the steamer Africa, for Europe,
and did not return until June, 1853. under
stand that Alderman Fulmer exhibits a receipt
from Browns Hotel, dated March 7, 1859, for
four days board This makes il certain that
the alderman's stay there terminated on the 9Th
and that the alleged conversations must have
taken place previously 10 that date But as Col
Fremont did not reach New York from Calfor-
MIA until the 9Th, it is impossible that he should
have been connected with then, especially as
he remained in New York until his departure
for Europe, and did not ,isit Washington at all.
He has no recollection Of having ever dined at
Browns Hotel until this last winter since ls4l, {,
or having ever seen Alderman Fulmer, there
or elsewhere The alderman, am informed,
is man who would not be likely to make such
statements unless he believed them 10 be true.
But il is very certain that he has fallen into a
very gross error somehow, probably by mistak-
ingsone other person with whom he may have
held the conversation in question, for Col. Fre-
mont. He owes il to his own character as well
as 10 justice, TO take steps 10 confirm or correct