Washington sentinel., 1856-07-19
A Literary Tribute 20 the Black Repub-
lean Candidate.

N
lican Candidate.
| The Savannah Georgian, partaking of tn,
general disgust which possesses the entir,
South at the nominstion of the adventurer
Fremont, thus refers to that individual:
JOHN CHARLES FREMoNT.-It is with pride
that the North can boast, in the chaos of po
litical elements, a sturdy band of patriots who
setting at defiance the howls of the abolition
horde stand with the noble souls Of the country
on guard over the sacred fortress of the Con.
stitution. She can record the names Of Cass,
Buchanan, Pierce, Douglas, Toucey and others,
as the guardian spirits of the Union, acting
and confederating with those true sons of q
more southern latitude for the preservation OF
constitutional liberty.
The gratifying task is allowed to the South
in the year 1856, to herald to the world the
distinguished name of her first traitor, John
Charles Fremont the abolition nominee for
the Presidency .of the United States. The
State of South Carolina can claim his nurture,
and the city Of Savannah, in the State of
Georgia, has had the accidental honor of be-
ing the place of his birth.
Does not the earth seem to heave under US
at the thought? Does it not try in vain to rid
itself of this foul disgrace No, it does not.
1t looks with pity upon the poor wretch whose
judgment is so much at fault as to place him
self in the hands of an unscrupulous and de-
signing crew, who will use him for the moment,
but cast him at last from them, slowing the
treason, but despising the traitor" He has
played thus far the successful part of the
"knave," and the sequel will cause him, with
out any violation of his own, to be the actor
Of that more pardonable character of the
"fool."
The great man Of the party in which this
Abolition trio is now the prominent luminary
is William H. Seward. No doubt our readers
in what profound political retirement he has
kept himself during the last six months. Yet,
if the anti-slavery game ever does succeed, he
is the man who will reap its rewards. He rests
perfectly content for this mad climber of the
Rocky Mountains to break his neck in the
more difficult ascent which he has recently un-
dertaken. When the political carcass of the
great John Charles, the beloved son of South
Carolina, shall burden the plains at the base
of the eminence which he once dared to essay,
in 1860 the arch fend of New York proposes,
in his own person, to fight the great battle of
his party.
The poor creature is indebted for his present
elevation to the idea inculcated by his bosom
friend Greeley, that from his own experience of
the practical operation of slavery he can, in
the magnificence of his unsullied conscience,
face the people of his birthplace. Coriolanus
once stood at the gates of Rome with the hos
tile Volsci at his back; his mother and his
wife, with streaming eyes, went forth to subdue
the heart of the incensed Roman. If John
Charles Fremont (who is TO Coriolanus in dig
nifty as the oppossum is to the lion) shall ever
appear with the legions of abolition at the gates
of the Constitution, and shall but touch with
bis unhallowed hand its sacred portal, his
mother land will sally forth, not in tears, but
displaying the cord of hemp, as well the emblem
OF his treason as the reward of his treachery