Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-10-09
Fremons,s Religion.

81. NICHOLAS HorKL, NEW YoRK, Oct. y 1864.
To the Editors Of the n Y Daily News:
Some circumstances have recently been commu.
nicated ~ me, on reliable authority which bear on
the Roman Catholicism Of Col Fremont, and pro
coed 20 narrate them for your use.
My colleagues IN Charleston have ia thels posses
sion control have had access 70 them, letters
from Mrs. fremont herself 10 highly respectable
lady IN Charleston, Whose name Ia known 70 my col
leagues and myself " IN which she refers Mrs. X. u
her husbands John c. Fremont) soishd~anal from
TIE Roman Catholic Ghrot " and nothing bat rather
too tastdious sense OF decacy prevents my colleagues
from publishing those letters, unless Col Fremont
las they have repeatedly aud publicly challenged him
70 do,) shall deny under his own name Cor authorize
some Responsible person 10 do 30 for HIM that he
has ever been Roman Catholic.
Again dentist In Charleston Of responsibility
man, and eminent in his profession whose name
is IN possession both of my colleagues aud myself
has informed my colleagues that he was present at
one or more interviews between Fremont aud his mo-
Their, Mrs Hale, when the apostacy of the former,
from Professionalism the creed Of his mother) to Ro-
man Catholicism (the creed of his deceased father
referred TO-" This information il as vet comb
dentia but the seal of confidence viii be removed il
Colonel Fremont shall dare 10 make the Issue pre-
nted and challenged by the Charleston Courier
Lastly, Mr.. Ebenezer Thayer, a highly respectable
free-schoo teacher, (who believe entirely educated
Colonel Fremont in the free school under his, Mr..
Thayers, CHARGE and who had himself been In com
munion with the Roman Catholic Church, has tes-
hhed, for my colleagues, that Mrs. Hale has con-
yersed with him on the subject, expressing her re-
grets that Charles had turned Roman Catholic"
Mrs. Hale BY her maternal influence, persuaded
her son Charles, In early life about his fourteenth
year, TO undergo the rite of Protestant Episcopal
confirmation at the hands Of Bishop Gadsden, in
Charleston lie subsequently,, however threw of
his mothers leading strings and authority, and
united himself with the Roman Catholic Church
toward which he had always manifested a strong
procliyity, as the church of his deceased father II
seems, however from Mrs Fremonts letters to her
correspondent IN Charleston, that conugal influence
or some other powerful motive, Ia religious one from
his avowed Indifference TO religion 1t cannot be- has
induced him to turn again--aye, he can turn and
turn again. like eel to suit his own purposes or
those OF the wire-workers of whom he is the plant
puppet.
II is manifest then, that Col Fremont stands con-
ycted OF the sin Of double apostacy in religion first
Protestant, then Roman Catholic, and then pre-
tendingly Protestant again. besides being rene
gade in politics and traitor to his friends and his
State.
The foregoing statement will furnish a very ready
solution of the problem why Colonel Fremont betrays
such unwillingness 10 make a public profession OF
confession of his religious faith By so doing he will
have to admit that he has boxed the religious com
pass, and got back once more to the starting point
OF Professionalism, (real pretended in downright
apostacy from the Roman Catholic faith to which be
had become convert A confession like this would
certainly offend the Roman Catholics and take away
all pretext for further support by Archbishop Hughes
and others OF the same party, unless the covert
ground that ms new-fangled Professionalism is hypo-
critical or pretensve, and his Roman Catholicism
although secret, real and substantial
Those facts in relation 10 Colonel F's religious
creed combined with numerous others of like char
acter from other resources with which the whole land
is now familiar will fasten on him to the yery teeth
OF has own shameless denial of the truth the charge
that he eods Roman Catholic once and that if he is
not one noso he is double apostate in religion, as
well as Southern renegade untrue to the soil of his
birth, at least to the home of his childhood and
youth, having, like Esau of DID, sold his brth-right
Tor mess OF pottage rather like Benedict Arnold
sold his country for filthy lucre or ildirected ambi
ton 10 her direst foes M.
am, sir, yours, very respectfully,
RICHARD YEADON,
One of the Editors and Preprietsrs of the
Charleston Is. o. Courier.