Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-16
Personal Attacks upon Colonel
- Fremont.

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- Fremont.
Under its mildest phase, political contest Is
often bitter as well as disgraceful. Itis often
rude, unmanly, not to say even barbarous-va-
ried here and there, according to the generosity
or deprayity of tie assailant- But scarcely ey-
er in the whole history of political warfare in
this country. has any man been subjected to
srch yindicfive, neon. and ferocious attacks as
those by which Col. Fremont is assailed by the
ruffian press and rufian orators of to-day. They
are sbseluteiy outrageous and unparalleled.
Excessively in thier own opinion. have these
miserable blackguards and libellers. doomed
Col. Fremont. But from their brutal hands he
has offenipassed out unharrned and unscathed
he was branded as a~Slaveholder.r iiIl the ev-
idencc to the contrary swept down the assail-
ants like a blast of fire. Profaning the sancti-
~ of private life, he was then denounced as a
child Of ~illegitimate" birth. by this same van
dal brood. But the hct flame of the peoples
wrath soon drove them from that eharge-a
charge as foaihsoine and as infamous as the
| character of its inventors. He was next damn
ed as Catholic On rock. where christian
foot had never trod before, be carved "a eros" /"
the emblem Of our common religion, to show
that the spo. had been rescued from Pagan ig-
noranee and made sacred by the tread of the
Christian. In Heavens name, what else could
he have done to stamp the place 50 readily with
the record of Christian adventure?
An now these shameless minions of the Slave
Power make the humble and simple record a
matter of taunt. 1t proves Colonel FREMONT
unfit for the President, 1t proves him "Cath-
Ole" which he has perfect right TO be, if he
pleases, or not be. Share-shame On these
disgusting, mousing assailanis. Could any
thing be more despicable, or more fendish?
Why, these--puny litle7 Spanie1s, yelping so
noisily along the track of the noble and he
rcic Adventurer, if the exhibition were not in
expressibly heart-sickening, ought to arouse a
storm of indignation. But their shivelled souls
and ruffian instincts, in part, screen them from
the apnihilation which the people would 9TH
erwise mete out to them. - -..4
Infinitely small-souled must such men be-.
and as infinitely mean. Col. FREMONT, pushing
his upward way among hostile savages; suffer-
ing from privation, fatigue and hunger; making
every step of his pathway up the Rocky Noun
tains a living record of his daring and glorious
spirit; standing at last on that stormy height
and unfurling the American flag beneath the
blue Heavens, wedding forever the East and
the West of the New World; and by all his tolls
and triumphs crowning his youthful brow with
a wreath of glory-in all this. Col FREMONT ex-
cites no admiration, no glow of patriotic graft
tude, in the bastard souls of his assailapts In
stead of glorying in his heroic achievements,
they actually dog the footsteps of the noble and
gallant young Pathfinder, and -taunt him with
having carved a cross on that perilous, and
before untroddcn mountain peakl Were ever
malignity and -unappreciating stupidity more
blended than in these groveling ac-
cusers? s-.B 5-z a @ 7z=
And then comes our no less malignant Uni
ted States Senate-a Senate, be it remembered, |
that sat in dumb and bastard silence On the |
blood stained floor of their. own hall, when
SUMNER was stricken down-then comes
our "honorable" Senate, drabbing its robe in the
rufiian faith of the Press and Stump" Even it
has undertaken to stab Col FREMosT, by NOUS
ing up from the musty archieves of the nation,
'omo unexplained charge against the very man
upon whom it SO recently shewered the honor
of its thanks and its commendationl! And all
this to crafty party malignity-to serve party
poses-stealing actually stealing the golden
crown Of the gallant FREMONT, nobly earned,
and won amid peril and toll. and placing it up |
on the head of BucHAxASi! What high-minded
and honorable" business f3r grave Senate.
Very well, gentlemen ruffians, go-ahead.-
You, all of you, are acting out you nature. You
are developing the "rufian" instincts of the
Party 10 which you cling. Go-aheadl The
PEOPLE are kindling fire that will soon sweep
you away like consuming chaff. And that will
be the end of you. While our glorious young
leader will arise with the sunlight upon his
brow Nations pride and a Nations benefac-
tor; and bearing aloft Nations banner; a ban
ner bearing upon its gorgeous folds as 1t floats
over the sea, these glorious words. LIBERTY
AND UNION, now and Forever; One and INSOFAR
ablei' t'e ads@ At@ a'l''l l''
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