Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-10-24
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

Baltimore Sun has considered it due to It's
character of neutrality to give the force OF It's
.;-o,,o,;o, 70 the infamous and insidious un.
tru,bs embodied in the Black Republican
address to the people of Maryland, and the
electoral ticket which they have had the i'm
nudeuce to attach to the document.
The Black Republicans having been de-
nounced as avowed sectionalists, because they
had no electoral ticket in any Southern State,
published the names of certain disappointed
followers of Cassius NJ Clay as their ticket in
Kentucky. For the same purpose they Juyked
the names Of certain members of the Virginia
Legislature, who speedily and with great in
dignation, rebuked the unwarrantable forgery.
These frauds answered their purpose until
after the Pennsylvania election. With the
same object they have-under the auspices of
Mr.. F. P. Blair, who modestly pledged the CON-
merce of Baltimore to the support of Fremont
issued an address to the people of Maryland,
and nominated an electoral ticket in that
State.
The effect Of this publication by the Sun at
this time, will be to enable the Black Repub-
licsns to rebuff the charge of sectionalism by
pointing to their address and ticket in Mary
land, Virgins, and Kentucky, and by claim
ing, upon the authority of John M Bottr,
Henry Winter Davis and other Southern
Black Republican party leaders, strong and
growing support for Fremont in the Southern
States.
Is it not the duty of the Sun to accompany
this publication with q correct statement of
the weakness of Fremont in Maryland, and
with the fact that Baltimore is the chief mar
ket city of the South, dependent upon South
ern States for her access to the West, her out
let to the ocean, and for the chief demand for
her fables, and also with the declaration at
she has no affiliations with nor sympathy for
the revolutionary and fanatical party which,
under the names of Freedom and Fremont,
would mislead her citizens and destroy her
interests.
Tbs Dromios The New York Ir,5une,
aware of the utter folly Of longer venturing
to brave, on tho strength of the denial of John
e. Fremont alone, the force Of the afidavits
and other statements OF the multitude of re.
spectacle and well known persons who have
testified to facts proving, beyond all question,
his (Fremont's) former connection with the
Church OF Rome, has at length been com.
PEELED, In answer to the thousand letters OF
inquiry it says its conductors have received
On the subject, to publish pamphlet designed
to show that there were two Fremonts in the
army, and that the Fremont who was the
Catholic is Sewell l. Fremont, now of Viii.
mington, North Carolina Thus, the Tribune
admits that one Lieutenant Fremont, of the
United States army, was Roman Catholic,
as asserted by so many respectable persons,
but claims that it was the Lieutenant Fremont
who stands six feet in his stockings, weighs
some two hundred pounds, and has blue eyes
and light, SANDY hair, and a complexion to
match not its dapper little Mr.. Fremont, five
feet eight inches high, weighing one hundred
pounds and chew Of tobacco, with long jet
black hair and eyes, and a swarthy complex.
ion.
The Tribune essays to fasten Catbolicity
upon the former only On the asseveration Of
one Judge Peters," of this Washington
city, who AYERS that, having been intima tely
| acquainted with both the Lieutenants Ere
mont, he knows well that Sewell L was the
Roman Catholic, while John Charles never
was one.
Mr. Sewell L. Fremont publishes, over his
own signature, not only that he never was q
| Catholic, but that he knows NO one in this city
named Peters-judge or aught else.
1t becomes a question Of no little interest to
the public of Washington particularly, to as
certain who the Judge Peters may be, who,
claiming to reside here, has undertaken after
fashion TO fix the Roman Catholic saddle on
the wrong horse in this instance Though
born and bred in this vicinity, and though
knowing, as We believe. quite as many of the
good people Of Washington, white and black,
as any other one man in its limits we certainly
never before heard Of "Judge Peters Of
Washington city," nor have we after diligent
inquiries been able to end any one who kno VS.
any such person. We, therefore, conclude that
he is simply man Of straw, created to accom-.
modate the pressing strait Of the cause of the
Republican party. If there De such a man
here, Ly all means let US know who be is
where he came from-what be was there. &c
&c 50 that the public may comprehend
what amount OF credence is due to his assev.
Grafton to the Roman Catholicity Of the big
Fremont by way Of relieving the little Ere.
mont from that now weighty charge. Our own
opinion is, that no one In Washington knows
any more of Judge Peters Of Washington
city" than Sewell l.. Fremont does; and he de-
clares, 1t will be remembered, that he has no
acquaintance whatever with any one named
Peters in this city, though the Tytbuus's