The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1856-09-10
NUMBER 21.

THE ISLANDERS UPON FREMoNT.-Tho
ISLANDERS upon Fremont ara rebuked in
tho NeKburyport Herald, in the follow.
ing terso and truthful article -
Col Fremont has bsen treated still
worse 1t is not two weeks since he was
made candidate. Then there was no
person 10 the whole nation Of twenty-five
millions, whose record was cleaner, whose
character was fairer, or who would quick
er have been pointed TO as young man
of hope and promise. Politically we
care not to express any opinion Of him,
and we are under not the slightest party
obligation to vote for him; but as man,
as an American We do not hesitate to
say that We have been proud Of him.
We have felt ourselves more Of man
since we were privileged to live IN the
same age that produced him so brave
and daring-so generous and nobls -
We have felt prouder of being an Amer
ican. since be honore6 the country by his
services and mis- brave deeds. Before hs
was a candidate all felt this. He was
bright and an uublot,ed leaf in our cal
science, an uudaunted explorer, aud gall
liant sodicr-whosc pen, whose sword,
whose daring, alike shed lustre upon our
history-olovatcd us at home, spread a.
broad our fame among the nations, and
represented those elements Of character
that endeared the American people TO the
lovers of progress and liberty in other
lands. Mr. Benton pctted him as the
pride of his old ago the State where he
was born voted him a sword for his gal
lantry the nation honored him BY ad-
vauccd rank the highest scientific a'so.
Citations of Europe sent him their medals;
the savans Of the old world, the Hum.
boldts and Aragos, hailed him from over
the waters, and all the people praised
him Who would have believed that
such a man as that who just the same az
Mr. Bucanan, had given hislifo to the ser
vice of his country, could havc been rr-
inod, If political SANDER, and bitter low
lived malice could ruin his character, in
ten short weeks But so it stands.
Here are tho charges against him-
that being the Republican candidate, he
owl MS slaves-that accepting the North
American nomination, he is a Catholic
that aiming at the Presidency, be is not
a native Of the country, but was born a
mong the Canadian Indiaus-that while
the government thought him an explorer
of merit, he made no discoveries, all tho
mountain passes he talks of were known
beforc-that he did nothing for the ac-
QUESTION of California, but was specula-
ting while others were 6ghting-that no
did not write the report that appeared
over his name, they being the works of
Benton-that he is peculator, embez-
zler and defaulter and finally that he
is no Fremont. such as had been repor.
ted, bu. perfect humbug, reckless ad-
ventursr, a liar about Marposa which has
no gold, and either the woolly horse that
Barnum had, tho Indian protege, as Eras-
tus Brooks wants him, or the South sea
mermaid, and it is no, exactly decided
which. Now, since the world began,
who ever heard such nonsense or saw
such madness befOre2 And yet these char
ges are gravoly made by respectable peo-
ple--all discovered within ten weeks
with the idea that the . swinish multi
tude" will believe them--ind "swinish
indeed will be the man who credits ono
word of them
The recent attempt of Senator Bigler
to throw suspicion Of fraud upon the aft
airs Of Fremont in connection with our
government. after his accounts had all
been examined and passed, though i. i,
not a new trick, but was played upon
Scott and Taylor, and Cass and Pisrc,,
we regard as mean and contemptibe.
The Senator from the great Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, had bcttor have
ali the mountains that arch tho lowest