The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-08-08
THE DAILY DISPATCH
Friday rlnrsiss. Augast =, 1850.

THE DAILY DISPATCH.
Friday rinrs,ss. August ., 1880.
Life ef Fremont.
LIFE. EXPLORATIONS AND PuHIlcsBERyIeEs or
JoaN cHARLrs FREMONT BY CHAs.r WENT.
WORTH UpHAM Bostea. Tg,kaor & Fieids.-
Thi. is the campaign electloneering book Of the
John Charles Fremont party 1t the North. It 10
chiefly made up Of his adventures In the Rocky
Mountains and beyond them. and these are not At
ii, diminished In respect to the hardship and hsz
ard attending them. by the aaitering pen Of Mr.
Charles Wentworth Upham
The mest impudeut thing in the book 10 . par
aliel drawn by the Biographsr between John
Charles Fremont and GEORGE WAsHISaroSi-
II begins thus:
"It IA aajd thai the Indiana of his day admitted
General Washington to their Heaven, and were OF
opinion that no other white man won Id be allowed
20 enter those celestial bunting grounds The IN.
dams of the presen, day hars similar eges'on for
Fremont
These modern Redskins are indeed = degener-
ate race Their affection for Fremont, however,
il not . thing to be wondered At. According TO
the statement of Lieut.. Schenck Of the Navy, Ere
mont treated the Red Skins Of the West with such
extreme consideration that be was not present
at single battle In California between them and
the whites. Such was the overlooking compassion
of this mercifui man for these misguided hsathens,
that be refused to participate in the shedding OF
one drop of their blood or even to witness the nor
rid barbarities Of Stockton, Schenck and other IN
human mariners on horseback, who cut down the
Indians wherever they met them. IL 10 no won
der that the Red Skins adlait Fremont TO their
heaven. Wherever Fremont is must be heaven
to Indians.
The book before us INDUCES In another fable
which we commend to the especial attention OF our
readers "rhere is another point of resemblance
however" quoth Charles Wentworth Upham, be
tween Fremont and Washington. The same blood
foaoed in their reias. The domestic Influences un-
der which the mother Of Fremont grew up, were
derived from the same circle of family connections
within which Washington was nurlurtd Several
OF the mpressible years of her sons Childhood
were passed in that circle, among her kindred IN
Virginia" This will be news to the people OF THIS
State and to the family of Washington. For the
new honor conferred upon the Washington stock
by their relationship TO Madame Fremont, they
should be duly grateful The fact however, ID
that this whole statement ID an entire and unquai
flied fabrication. Col. Fremont has no more OF the
blood of Washington In his veins than he has of Ju
illus Cesar and Pompey, or Alexander. His mo
Their was pretty country lass, of DO social preten
sions, who came to this city, and married the old
revolutionary soldier, Pryor. The advocates Of
Fremont declare that the union Of Madame f.
with that gentlemans father was strongly opposed
by the members of her family The only member
of her family who opposed it was her husband but
his opposition was of no avail. The enterprisine
Gaul who begat Fremont, paid no regard &c
any prior right.
1t is amusing to see these abolitionists endeavor
ing to make capital for Fremont by boasting thai
he grew up under the domestic Influences oil
Virginia nurture, when they are eternally denoun
ding the domestic influences of Virginia of the
most depraved and demoralzing charactert They
ought to be ashamed of such gross Inconsistency
But consistency is virtue of which they have nc
comprehension. and shame stranger to their cal
lous souls Nevertheless, we accept the undesign
MIA as proof that, in their secret hearts they be
lieve and feel that moral superiority, which theii
base and envious natures are unable to emulate.
We arc sorry that John Charles Fremont has
fallen into such hands He would better be ca
ressed by Rocky Mountain bears. He will never
be President of the United States. He can never
acquire, even if successful a name in history, ex
eept as the wedge which rived asunder the fair
est fabric of human government ever formed by
the hands of man.