Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-08-21

On speaking OF the disreputable move
ment made by Senator BIGLER, of Penn
sylvania-the bosom friend of BUCHANAN
Ito throw somes uspieion upon Col, FIRE.
MONT by calling for an investigation Of ac-
counts long since audited as correct, and
allowed, the New York Tribune well says
$50 ahead, gentlemen! You had all
these accounts in your hands for years
and, if there be anything wrong in them,
you should long since have exposed and
reprobated it It was only last session
that strongly Democratic Congress, by a
vote nearly if not quite unanimous in both
Houses, admitted that the Government
honestly owed Col Fremont large sum
for advances made and debts incurred by
him for the public service in California
several years ago. That money was ac-
cordingly paid over to him. If it was not
his Just due, the Committee that scrutinized
the accounts and reported in his favor were
most culpable; if there was "any public
money in his hands unaccounted for" that
money should have been deducted by the
Treasury accountants from the amount due
him by Congress. If there were any
'charges" of "malfeasence in office" then
pending, they should have been brought to
the knowledge of Congress, and duly con-
sidered by it in making its award in his
behalf.
Upon this matter too, the New Yosk
Eeening Post says:
The Senator from Pennsylvania who on
Saturday shot from his seat poisoned ar
row at the official character of Col. Ere
mont, has been, for many years, political
dependant of James Buchanan, and in this
transaction, Of course was acting for his
principal. A more shameless proceeding,
has rarely, if ever, occurred in Congress
Gov. Bigler knows and his principal, James
Buchanan, knows still better, that the in
situations conveyed in the resolution of
inquiry offered on Saturday are maliciously
unjust; that Col. Fremont's account, have
all been passed upon by Committee of
Congress, among whom were several Of his
political opponents, that the only accuse
tions which ever reached Washington in re-
gard to them, came through Col. Mason
while Governor of California, an avowed
enemy of Col. Fremont, and an ally of Gen.
Kearney in his warfare against the Colonel,
and who, while underlying challenge from
Col. Fremont for using insolent language,
begged to have the meeting postponed for
three years and a halt, and pending that
period, trlmped up charges and sent them
home for the purpose of prejudicing him
with the Court Martial to be- convened for
bis trial; they also know that the Court
took no notice of his charges; that Presi-
dent Taylor a year afterwards appointed
him Commissioner to run the Boundary
line between the United States and Mexico,
thereby practically pronouncing the ac-
cusation referred to malicious and ground
less; and that subsequently to that event,
he was chosen Senator of the United States,
on the first ballot, by the Legislature of
California, when the facts III regard to these
accusations were well known and thorough
ly canvassed, They know these facts per-
fectly well, but they think that the mere
fact Of an inquiry of this kind being insti-
tuted by the Senate may prejudice him
with those who are not aware of the vulgar
and .unmanIy spirit in which it originated,
Col. Fremonts accounts were settled a
year ago or more; they'were carefully can
vassed by committee of the House of Re-
presentatives, one of whom was Extra Billy
Smith Of Virginia, notorious for his strict
ness in such matters, and were unanimous
ly passed upon and settled hv the con