The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1856-09-24
Life Of Coz. Fremont.

AS will be seen by an advertisement in anoth-
er column, our friend Isaac Lewis of Georgetown
keeps full supply of Bigelow's life of Col. FIRE.
mont for sale. The New York Herald, of the
7th inst the leading Fremont paper of the
country, thus speaks of this work, and all other
lifes Of the gentlemen who parts his hair in tho
middle and aeear8 a beautiful naoustacAe:-
[From the New York ueraldl -
"TAKING GREAT MEMS LIVES by ANEW Pro
oEss.-Durng the past two or three months we
have seen two or three lics Of Fillmore, one or
two of Buchanan, and six or sever biographies
of Colonel Fremont. The books about Buchan-
an and Fillmore are dull, harmless, sleepy az
fairs; they will do nobody any good or harm, for
that matter, except that the poor booksellers and
printers who have got them up on speculation,
will find themselves injured. The so called lives
of Fremont, with one exception, are execrable;
they are beyond example the most atrocious at
tempts at murder that we have ever seen in the
way of biography. There has been one written
by Mr. Bigeow, and another by Mr. Upham.
We have looked into these volumes, and really
cannot conceive that it would be possible to pro.
duce anything more calculated to injure and
weaken the candidate Bigelow dives into the
most absurd and ridiculous researches, raking
and scrapng up all sorts ofprivate matters, ap-
parently for the purpose giving material to the
enemy; for the very events upon which have
been based at least one-halfthe personal assaulst
which have been directed against Col. Fremont,
have been first given in this book. Blockheads
should never be politicians, particularly among
an intelligent, thinking people like those in this
country.
rba ss4 LA.
was issued in small pamphlet Of twenty or
thirty pages The history of Fremont for the
past fifteen years is portion Of the history Of
the country, and there was no necessity of dig
ging into the remote past as Mr.. Bigelow has
done, poking away after every ridiculous event
that may have taken place in his childhood, as if
mining for fossils or excavating for the most sal
lent points in the private life Of an Egyptian
mummy. IfCol Fremont be eleced-and he
probably will bet will be in spite Of the harm
done him by his foolish biographers and because
the great lineaments of his hisory are wildly i'm
pressed upon the history Of the country, His
private affairs are not Of the slightest Importance
to the country; neither are his private religious
views. His public career is found in the history
Of his cauntry. The people are familiar with IT,;
and from itthey haye learned that he has the
vigor, ability energy, talant and honesty to fill
the office for which he has been nominated
That is sufficient to make him safe in the posi-
ton he has assumed before the people Beyond
that, his biographers have acted like simpletons.
They have been merely purveyors Of scandal for
the miserable defamers of the opposition, head
ed by the Brothers Brooks, of this city. Colo
mel Fremont is representative Of the great ma
tional principle Of popular soyereignty--that
the people shall determine their own institu-
tions, without military Intervention. On that
principle he has taken the field, and on the en-
eorsement Of that by the people alone depends
the result.