Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-07-16

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The nnstanf - u ! killing paee,
Du a., du sis,
He's bswsl - VI m the four mile lace,
Du d, du do day.
Cnoaus- Ws'r bound %, kc.
Then d yoss best With the old gray hack,
Dn da, dn do,
The Mustang Colt will clear the track,
Du da, du da day.
CHoRus--We'rc bound TO work I'll night
We're bound 70 work all day,
III bet my money on the Mustang
Colt,
You'd better notbet on the Gray.
TllR REPUBLICAN, CANDIDATE.
IA our readers well know, we we're not Of the
number Of those who urged most strcnuously the
selection Of Col. Fremont by the Convention at
Phiadelpbia, ~ the stsndard-bearer, in the great
political campaign which is now upon us, ofthose
principles Of justice. humanity and liberty to
which our earnest adherence IL given. While
highly apprecisting, and heartily admiring, the
noble and signal qualities OF this gentleman, we
felt desire that II possible some wel-tried Cap.
tain In the ranks, which 80 long have stood un-
conquered for the Right, should be selected to
lead them to the victory which is now, We trust
aud believe before them. But since this selec-
tion has been made, we are led most clarly to
recognize in Il the good hand of God; and to
feel, as We almost never have felt hitherto, that
Providence has raised up, has endowed aud has
trained this workman for his office, the Man for
the Hour. If the election in November shall
result, as we are well persuaded that it will, in
placing him In the chair Of the President Of
these United States then VIC are compelled to
say that in no one instance in all the history Of
al -
was landed at Plymouth, will the guiding and
governing mind of God, intcrposng for our
protection, have been more clearly shown than
in raising him up to meet this crisis.
Young, unworn, entirely fresh in political
life, there are upon him no marks of past con-
trovcrsies, there are about him no odors Of past
political errors, or partisan wrongs OF an In
ventive, prompt and discriminating mind, ms
all his history shows, and now in the full and
perfect prime OF every power, he is able 10 meet,
II any man can, the whole demand of the pre-
sent emergency. OF French extraction ON his
fathers side, he Ia yet thoroughly an American,
by birth, by training, by his maternal ancestry,
and by oil his ideas of government and religion.
Born 10 Georgia, and educated at the institu-
tions Of South Carolina, his chosen home has
still been at the West, and his ardor for freedom
has never failed or wavered. A child of pow
erty, and man of the people, his career has
been more signally heroic than that Of any other
living American; and he has won his steady way
to opulcnce and honor, through the unaccustom-
ed paths OF sclf-denial and fortitude.
Delicate IN frame, entirely modest and unas-
suming In department, he has inspired the love
OF the stalwart and fiery pioneers of the West,
as almost no man before has done; aud his name
would now rally thousands on the borders to any
most difficult and hazardous enterprise. OF ex-
traordinary executive and administrative pow
crs, he combines with these equally the tastes
OF the scholar, the practsed enterprise and skill
Of tho soldier. His name is as well known in
the Old World as in the New. And while the
South has furnished his birthplace, and the will
derncss OF the West the chosen scene Of his
chief exertions, California, the youngest and
wealthiest Of the States, owes to him her explo-
ration and her subsequent conquest, and to him
in great part her present freedom. The whole
country, therefore, and every part Of it, has an
interest in his name. The young men of the
country, especially, must rally to him as their
natural leader, with ready enthusiasm. His We.
ry name seems watehword for liberty; and al.
ready crowds make the echoes ring with the
stirring refrain of Frce-soil, Free-speech, Free
men, and Fremont!
With him In the Presidential chair, the last
threat of dsunion will speedily and forever be
unsupported into the Senate-chamber, and whose
only reply to an argument is the bludgeon, will
be as whist as London pckpockct with the pc.
liceman beside HIM, before heintrepid and self.
poised will OF him who has faced the mountain
SHOWS while they were daintily dallying at home;
of him whom Indians and ,Mexcans could not
scare--though with teniold his force-now
welding the treasury and the army of the conn
try. Nay, with him in that chair we have the
frmest conviction that all sections will feel safe
and that speedy calm will succeed the recent
and the present agitations; while his life andh his
words give the amplest guaranty that the inhu-
ence Of the Government will all be employed on
the side of freedom and its benign order
1t Is somewhat curious to notice the striking
correspondence between the history of this
young Republican Captain, and that of him
whom our fathers took as their leader, in the
FIRST great struggle for Liberty on this continent.
A part of these have been noticed by the papers,
and by speakers. Others we have not seen re
ferred to. They are interesting and suggestive
Washington was left in childhood, by the death
of his father, to the charge of his mother. Free
mont was so likewise, at still earlier period
and in circumstances certainly much less auspi
cious. Washington had early passion for the
sea, SO strong that midshipman's warrant was
obtained for him by his friends. Fremont went
to sea, and was there employed for more than
two years Washington was introduced to pub
lie life through his service on the frontiers, as
surveyor and civil engineer. Fremont won his
discipline and his early fame in the same depart
ment, and by his use and practice in it became
fitted, in mind aud body, to sendure hardness"
Washington learned all that he knew of war il,
Indian combats and the strife of the wilderness,
and rose thus to the rank of Colonel in the pro.
Vincial troops Fremont's school was the same,
and he has gained the same rank. Washington
haa mad small experiences legislator, until he
was called to the head OF the Government. He
was taken for his welltried general Qualities
and not for amy distinction he had achieved as
diptomatist or statesman; and here again the
parallel holds. Washington was sneered at by
the men Of routine, was hated and assailed by
the Tories Of that day, as asoldier who had .nev-
er set squadron in the feld;' until his energy
and patience drove them allout of it. The same
class OF attacks arc now made on Fremont: to
be answered, we trust, in the same impressive
way. His friends early felt that Washington was
specially fitted and preserved of Providence to
become the head of the nation; as Rev. Samuel
Davies expressed it, that " Providence has hith-
erto preserved him in so signal manner for
some important service to his country" The
same expectation, becoming almost premoni-
ton, has for years been general among the
friends of Fremont Dr. Robertson, ms early
teacher, expressed it in the preface to his edi-
ton Of the Anabasis, published years ago in
these words. !. Such, my young friends, is an
imperfect sketch Of my once beloved aud favor
lite pupil, Who may yet rise to be at the head of
this great and growing Republic. My prayeris
that he may ever be opposed 10 war, injustice
and oppression Of every kind. blessing to his /
country, and an example % every noble virtue
to the whole world Washington was called to
the head of tho army at the age Of forty.foar;
and il Col Fremont shall live TO see the 4th OF
March next, We confidently expect that the sin.
gaiar parallel will so far be perfected!
Independent
THE GERMANS Yon FRgaoNr AND FsIEpoa---
A Nxw AReraENr ros EagS EaNsAss---A cor
respondent Of the New York Evening Post, wri-
uug from Cincinnati June cath, says, a large
and enthusiastic German meeting for Fremont
vas held on Saturday last, and 4 still larger and
SS snsnnsastic seaersi meeting last night.
h hne pao', s = beginning 70 make comparisons
meeting last night, they are ,he ev.,,;,e .re;,.