The true Democrat., 1856-08-05
The Nomination. oi Col. Fremont.

Despite the warnings Ot all the more mode l rate men ot the black republican party, and l the wishes of all the comparatively conserva- tive citizens who were casting longing glances | toward that rsanizatlop-deSpte the assertion ot Thaddens Stevens in the convention, that without Judge Mclean was its candidate. Peunsy lvauia would be lost by 5OO0O majority i'll the fall, he was withdrawn under crcum- stances which strongly indicate his betrayal by pretehded friends, for some unknown reason perhaps the lavish use of Mari posa gold had something to do with it.
 In his place, that :" enterprising young man." Col. Fremont, has received the nomination.- Destitute of qualification, destitute of all sem- blance of statesman-ike qualities, his only re- commendation appears to have been that there was a great deal of romance' about him. This may be weighty considerat)n )n with young lady in her teens in selecting a lover but it would be an insult to the intelligence of the American people to suppose they would not require more solid and attractive qualities in President. The following short biography of Fremont has been going the rounds of the press.
 "John c. Fremonts father was French man, who for some political offence, lost his property and escaped to this country. He taught the French language in Virginia for a living, and at length ran away with planters daughter and married her. Some years after wards he died in Charleston, South Carolina leaving a widow and two sons, very poor- Some ladies of the city took charge of the fa- mily, gave John c. good educ ltion at their own expense, and procured him, through the then secretary of the navy, a situation as teach CT on board government vessel, where he re- mained two years and a half, when, preferring the land service, those ladies assisted in pro- curing for him a commission in the army. One of his earliest exploits after that was to run away with and marry Colonel Benton's daugh- ter. But the Colonel at length forgave him, and procured for him the command of an ex- ploring expedition across the continent"
 We will not pause here to remark upon the ingratitude he has displayed in requiring the generosity and kindness of the ladies of Char leston by leading on those who are known to be the deadly foes of the section of the Union which gave him birth, and which, by cherish ing him, nourished in its bosom viper ready now to sting 1t to the heart. Nor will we at present descant at length upon those elements of "romance" which the opposition will no doubt dwell upon largely during the campaign. For the sake of Mir. Fremont's own fame he should never have placed himself in position which will render 1t necessary that the true history of his life should be made public, the veil of tinsel with which he has been bedeck ed be rudey snatched aside, and the facts con- nected With his career exposed. His friends will be very apt to maintain close silence up on hls teats as an explorer when the history of his blunders and heartlessness becomes known They will not boast mach of his famous Coochatope Pass, which eventually proved to be the highest peak but one of the Rocky mountains-nor of his favorite route for the Pacific railroad, which, on examination. prov. ed so crooked that it received the soubriouet of the Rams Horn Route-nor of the school of engineering which he established, viz: that the movements of the Buffaloes were the best guide to an explorer-nor will they be apt to particularly laud the infamous desertion of his corps in the midst of the perils in which he had nveigled them, shut up in snow thirty feet deep, which occurred near Taos, in New Mexico.
 Perhaps no man of his age has more unfor- tunate record than Col. Fremont. He was court martaed and dismissed from the army for nsubordinaton--his financial transactions
 with the government funds will probably be found to be not at all times of the most credi- be characteristic failed a politicians; and, after serving a short term in the Senate, was superseded as soon as he became fairly known by the people of Cafornia-and altogether, al- though he may be very fast very romantic, and a very enterprlsirg young man, he will find that no buffalo engineering" will take him within haling distance ofthe White House l-that obstacles, high and insurmountabie as his famous pass will rise before him--and that his political "ramshorn routs' will lead him