Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-05-10
Different Destinies Of two Brothers.



JOHN G. AND FRANK FREMONT.
1t seems to be settled, now, that Col.
j. G. Fremont is to be the Presidential
candidate of the Black Republicans the
most detestable set of politicians, not
excepting the party of Robespierre and
Danton, in the French Revolution, that
the world ever knew. For the atrocities
of the era referred to, there was some
very slight palliation in the expressions
of previous systems and wrongs inflicted
by the classes which were so horribly
revongcd by the Partisan cut-throats.
In the case of the American sans-cul-
lottes, the attempted revolution is soft
ened by no pretehse Of injury to its
actors, and is against all the instincts of
a race-while it is demonstrated by recent
events at the North, that their ferocity
is as intense and as brutal as the annals
of revolutionary Paris can exhibit.
1t is this party that Col Fremont now
leads; and Col Fremont is Southern
born man. Nay, he is Southern born
man, whose present wealth and distin-
guished position are fairly attributable to
the social influences of the section upon
which he is hereafter to make war. Had
he been native of New England, in all
probability he would at this day have
been stepped in poverty and unknown to
fame. If Col. Fremont was not born in
Charleston, he was carried there at
very early age by his mother, and no
certainly received there the education
which fitted him for subsequent success
and distinction. He was the protege Of
HE LaolieS' Benegolent Society of Charles
ton, some members of which found tho
family in great need and aided them
Young j. G. Fremont was discovered to
have talent, and by the interest of these
same ladies', became the BENEFICIARY of
charity scholarship in Charleston College.
He was graduated there, with distinc-
ton, having shown Gas we always heard)
decided mathematical talent. Suisse
quently, through the influence already
mentioned, Mr.. Poinsett was induced to
get him an appointment as teacher Of
mathematics, on board national vessel;
thence he was transferred to the corps Of
Typographical Engineers very long
afterwards he married o daughter Of
Hon. Thomas II. Benton, and began his
brilliant and rapid rise. Every ono
knows his subsequent history.
Col. Fremont had brother, Frank,
year or two younger, who went on the
stage very early. He was bluff lock-
ing, hearty fellow, seeming very much
more like man destined to military
leadership than his brother. For some
little time, Frank made q sensation and
got to be called the Charleston Ros-
cius"-but gradually came to be consid-
cred merely tolcrablc stock actor
After he had been on the stage some
years, he married-in New York, as
well as we recollect. Somewhere about
1880, while playing an engagement
in Buffalo, IN. " he got into an abo-
lition riot Of some kind and, while fight
ing CALAMITY for Southern principles, he
received heavy blow on his head which
aaectedihis brain. From this he never
recoverod--the injury finally sottledu upon
his lungs, and he died of consumption.
lie continued to play, we believe, up to
a few days before his death, which oc-
CURED in Columbus, Ca, in 1889. At
any rate, the writer of this found him
there, with some little trouble, as he
was playing under an assumed name,)
having been charged with message to
him by his mother-who, itmay be re-
marked, was q quiet, melancholy woman,
greatly devoted to her sons
1t is little striking, that these two
brothers, born and reared on slave soil,
should, by tho mcrest accidents, both
have been 80 nearly affected by abolition
ism, personally The one is knocked in
the head and "done for" by fanaticism,
while the other makes name infamous,
which had else been truly famous, by
giving his influence to the miscreants
who wage an unholy war upon the insti-
tutions Of his own section, and Of q
people who raised him from his lowliness
and placed him on the high road to famo
and boundless wealth If he ever thinks
Of his origin, he must sec the depth Of
an ingratitude almost sublime. -Mont-
gon,e,y Null.