Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-04-25
j. G. and Frank Fremont.

1t seems to be settled, now that Col. J. c. Free
mont is to DO the Presidential candidate of the
Black Republicans-the most detestable set of poll.
ticians not excepting the party Of Robaspierre and
Daton, in the French Revolution, that the world
ever knew. For the atrocities Of the era referred
to, there very slight palliation in the OPP
pressOns Of previous systems aud wrongs Inhi ted
by the classes which horribly revenged by
the Partisan cut throats. In the case of the Ame-
rcan sans cuottes, the attempted revolution is sof
tened by pretenso Of injury to its actors and is
against all the instincts Of race-whe it is demon.
slrated, by recent events at the North their Zero.
city is intense and as brutal the annals Of rsvo.
lutionary Paris can exhibit.
II is this party, that Col Fremont now leads; and
Col. Fremont is q Southern bora man. Nav, he is
SOuthern.born man, whose present wealth and
distinguished position fairly attributable TO the
social influences of the section upon which he is
hereafter TO make r. Had he been n native OF
New England, in all probability he would at this
day have been stepped in poverty and unknown to
Tame. II Col Fremont not born in Charleston,
he was carried there al a very early age by his
mother, and he certainly received there there the
edu alton which htted him for subsequent success
and distinction. he wac the prGsegs Of the Ladies
Benevolent Society OF Charleston, some members OF
which found the family in great need and aided
them Young j. G. Fremont was discovered to
have talent aud bv the interest of these same ladies
became the beneficiary of charity scholarship 10
Charleston College. lie was graduated there with
distinction, having shown las we always heard, } de
cided mathematical talent Subsequently through
the influence already mentioned, Mr. Ponsett was
Induced 10 get him an appoi' tment as teacher Of
mathematics, on board national vessel; thence he
transferred TO the cops OF Typographical Engi.
neers-not very long afterwards he married
daughter Of Hon Thomas II. Benton, and began
his brilliant and rapid rise Every one knowns his
subsequent history.
Col Fremont had a brother, Frank, a year or two
younger, who went the stage very early lie
was bluff looking, hearty fellow, seeming very
much more like man destined 20 military leader
ship, than bis brother For some little time Frank
made sensation and got TO be- called the Charles
ton Roscius"-but gradually came to be considered
merely tolerable stock actor After he bad been
on the stage some years, he married-in New York
as well as recollect Some here about 1889
while playing engagement in Buffalo, IN " he
got into All abolition riot Of some kind and, while
hhting calamity for Southern principles receiv-
ed heavy blow Oh his head which affected his
brain. From this he never reoovsred-the injury
finally settled upon his lungs and he died OF con-
sumption. lie continued to play, We believe, up to
a few days before his DEATH which We think occurr
ed IN Columbus, Ga, in ls49. At any rate, the
writer Of this found him there with some little trou
bic, as he playing under an assumed name,)
having been charged with message TO him, by his
mother-who, IL may be remarked, was a quiet,
melancholy woman, greatly devoted TO her sons
IL i little striking, that these two brothers.
born and reared on slave soil should by the merest
accidents, both have been 10 nearly affected by
abOitonism, personally. The one is knocked on
the head land "ione for" by ianaticisa,
while the other makes a name infamous which had
else been truly famous. by giving his influence TO
the misercants who wage an unholy upon The
institutions OF bis section aud OF people who
raj ed him from his owliness and placed him on the
high road to fame aud bourdess wealth II he ever
thinks OF his origin he the depth Of an in
gratitude almost sublime.