Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-07-12
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

His Religion.-The question of the reli
gleus antecedents Of Col. Fremont is shaking
North Americanism to its very centre, if the
comments of the Republican party and Fill
more press Of the North upon it afford an op-
portunity Of drawing fair conclusion The
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has come to the
gallant ColonePs rescue in the Independent,
and vouches for his unvarying Professionalism,
as strange as it may appear to our Catholic
fellow-citizens who are familiar with Colonel
Fremonts personal antecedents among US Of
the Federal city. But who will vouch for Mr..
Beecher's truthfulness, now that be has be-
come the most notorious stretcher Of facts
bearing on political subjects The reverend
rifeman, however, takes COED care not to say
wcrd about the education of Fremont, on
the charity OF Roman Catholic ladies, at a
Roman Catholic institution, and of the fact
that his father was of that faith not he He
says, however, that Fremont was originally
Intended for the Protestant Episcopal minis
try, being educated, from fourteen to sixteen,
TO that end. The reverend rifeman makes
only slight mistake in this particular state
ment. II was the Roman Catholic, and not
the Protestant Episcopal ministry which has
escaped so happily in failing to bag him.
The idea Of ones studying two years on the
the charity Of pious Roman Catholic ladies,
In Roman Catholic theological institution,
by way of preparing himself to enter the
ministry Of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
is the very last wrinkle, positively, in the pol
itics Of the hour 1t is too preposterous to be
grayely promuiged even by clerical politi.
clan, though the class perpetrate most of the
s!lliest and most unblushing tricks that dis
tinguish the extraordinary canvass of the
times.
We wish the reverend rfeman joy over his
prospect of convincing people in their senses,
that ais suddenly adopted protege and especial
pet studied two years on the charity of Roman
Catholic ladies, in Roman Catholic theolo.
gicsl Institution, by way of preparing himself
for the ministry in the Protestant EPISCOPAL
Church,.
Kansas In the House.-We see no reason
TO imagine that the friends of Mr.. Fillmore in
the House, from the North, design voting for
the Senate's Kansas Pacifcation bill. A few of
them only, will do 60. The South may, how
ever, rely on it, that their present purpose is
not to risk his prospects at the North by keen
ing the promises drawn from his recent speeches
at albany and Rochester. 1t was all very
well for him to denOunce the Republican party
and Its purposes there, in view of the then
existing prospect that the southern Know
Nothings would vote for 10 northern candi
date, but the idea of having his Immediate
friends In the House risk his pros pect for anti
slavery American party votes to the extent OF
voting for anything that may by any possible
cnance end In the admission Of Kansas "a a
siaVenoldlng State, is decidedly a horse Of
aho'ner color. They will nibble around the
Sena'es bill, voting to send it back sad.
oled with the restoration of the Missopr;
restriction and perhaps other Amendments.
out they will not give votes upop =, ,s.I,n
likely to compass its enactment. W. a.,
curious to see what sort of excu..s G.,
their backing ard filling upon the msasu,.
when to back and fill upon it is simply I,
aid the Kansas cause of the Republican
party, their southern allies in Congress and O
the press, will put forth. In view of thei
de'erm nation in this matter, if the souther,
hnoW Nothings continue to feel tickled b,
MI Fllimote's Albany and Rochester speech
ra"s' they must be amazing anxious Z
De hunnifuggled with their eyes open.
"" forney left Washington yester
aay morning for Pennsylvania, and, We hear
as family will follow him in a few days 7
" Will do the New York Herald any good !,
Ano"' we inform that journal. that Col p
never more active than at the n,essn
Oment; and never were his service. ,no-,
H'sHeo oy his friends here who are suns,;n