Daily American organ., 1856-08-11
AMERICAN ORGAN.
From the. Richmond Dispatch.
Life of Fremont.

Life Of Fremont.
Life Explorations, and Public Services of John
Charles Fremont, by Chas Wentworth Upham.
Boston: Ticknor a Fields.
This is the campaign electioneering book OF the
John Charles Fremont party at the Nort!I. II Is
chiehy made up of his adventures in the Rocky
Mountains and beyond them, and these are not al
AL diminished In respect to the hardship and hax-
ara attending them, by the fattering pen of Mr..
Charles Wentworth Uphain. =
The most impudent thing in the book is a par
siiei drawn by the biographer between John Chas.
fremont and George Washington 1t begins thus:
II IS said that the Indians of bis day admitted
ueherai washington TO their Heaven, and were OF
opinion that no other white man would be allowed
to enter those celestial hunting grounds. The Ia
dams Of the present day haze similar affection
for Fremontr' III !
These modern Redskins are indeed a degene.
rate race. Their affection for Fremont, however
is not thing to be wondered at. According to
the statement of Lieut. Schenck, ofthe Navy. Ere
mont treated the Redskins of the West with such
extreme consideration that he was not present at
single battle in California between them and the
whites such was the overfowng compassion of
TINS mercifnl man for these misguided heathens.
that he refused to participate in the shedding CT
one drop OF their blood, or even to witness the
horrid barbnrlties of Stockton Schenck, and other
mhuman mariners on horseback, who cut down
the Ind ans wherever they met them. It is no
wonder that the Redskins admit Fremont to their
heaven. Wherever Fremont is must be heaven
to Indians. g.
The book before US INDUCES in another fable,
which We commend to the especial attention of our
readers. " There Is another point of resemblance,
however" quoth Charles Wentworth Upham, abe
tween Fremont and Washington. The same blood
foaced an their veins. The domestic influences
under which the mother Of Fremont grew up,
were derived from the same circle of family con-
nexions within which Washington was nurtured
Several of the most mpressible years Of her sons
childhood were passed in that circle, among her
kindred in Virginia" This will be news to the
people OF this State, and to the family of Wash
ingtcu. For the new honor conferred upon the
Washington stock by their relationship to Madame
Fremont, they should be duly grateful. The fact
however, is that this whole statement is an entire
and unqualified fabrication. Colonel Fremont has
no more OF the blood of Washington in his veins
thad he has of Julius Caesar aud Pompey, or Alex
ander His mother was pretty country lass, of
no social pretensions, who came to this city and
married the old Revolutionary soldier, Pryor The
advocates of Fremont declare that the union of
Madame +. with that gentemans father was strong.
ly opposed by the members of her family. The
only member of her family who opposed it was
her husband, but his opposition was of no avail
The enterprising Gaul who begat Fremont, paid no
regard to any prior right. aW
1t is amusing to see these Abolitonists endeav-
oring to make capital for Fremont by bossting
that he grew up under the domestic influences of
Virginia nurture, when they are eterrally denoun-
cling the domestic influences of Virginia as Of the
most dcpraved and demoralizing characterl They
ought to be ashamed of such gross inconsistency.
But consistency is virtue of which they have no
comprehension, and shame a stranger to their cal
lous souls. Nevertheless we accept the undesiga-
ed tribute to the domestic Influences nof Virginia
as proof that, in their secret hearts, they believe
and feel that moral superiority which their base
and enyious natures are unable to emulate.
We are sorry that John Charles Fremont has
fallen into such hands. He would better be ca
ressed by Rocky Mountain bears. He will never
be President Of the United States. He can never
acquire, even if successful, name in history, ex-
cept as the wedge which rived asunder the fairest
fabric of human government ever formed by the
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