The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1856-07-02

tive in placing Fremont in false position
before the people:
"On the first day of July we again
took up the line of march, and notwith-
standing all we had as yetendured, we had
scarce entered the Threshold of what was
still in store for us; for bleak and dreary
deserts, and a lofty chain of snow-capped
mountains still shut us out from the gol-
den valleys of the Pacific. Armed with
a ponder0us copy of the "illustrious :"
Frement's Journal, and placing the most
implicit confidence in the truth of his
statements, the entire emigration were
making forced marches to reach the Hum
boldt river and there recruit their jaded
animals on the nutritious grasses of this
beautiful valley, and sip the limpid waters
of this far-famed river. Col. Fremont,
in his Journal, page 8, states: Its W
(the Humboldt's) immediate valley is a
rich. alluvion, beautifully covered with
blue grass, clover, and other nutritious
grasses, and its course is marked through
the plain by a line of willow and cotton
woodtrees." Again, anne page, he says:
at furnishes a level, unobstructed way
for nearly 500 miles, and a continuous
supply of water, wood, and grass" This
statement is grossly false. lie. was either
never on the Humboldt river, or wrote
the above from some malicious motive.
The valley, instead of being covered with
grass, is almost as barren as the Great
Sahara, and instead Of cotton wood and
willow skirting its banks, not q tree or
shrub is to be found to shield you from the
parching rays of the sum-, and not even
the leaves of willows for your starving
animals to feed upon. Horned frogs and
creeping scorpions are almost the only
settlers. Here it was that teams let down.
Mules and oxen lay strewn on either hand,
whose whitening bones, could they but
speak, would pass a acither5ng curse apon
this aMastriouS deceiver Of las couatry's con
tfdence. And men, thus left destitute of
the means of conveyance, with inianed
eye-baIls and swollen tongues, would hurl
the infamous rork from them and curse
the peridious wretch that gave 1t birth.
J That this is no fancy sketch, | appeal to
the thousands who have seen and felt the
same, and if there be a day of eternal
%retribution, hundreds who have found q
premature grave in consequence Of this
work, will rise up in judgment against
him, and awful will be the sentence of the
" Mustrfous /" Colonel"
DR.. MASON is sustained in what he says
!, of Fremont by the Wheeling hteAigencer.
That paper says:
"The Republican Ticket would have
been complete, with Kit Carson for Vice
President. The adventures in the far
|. West by Fremont, with one exception,
were made under the advice and personal
guidance of Carson, and that exception
was a failure Many of the scenes and
incidents described, acre never witnessed
by Fremont, and while often truthful fire.
quently are not entitled to any credence,
and depend upon the fertile Imagination
of Carson for an existence We have
traversed this continent on at least one of
the routes described by Fremont, and when
he tells us of the stately poplar trees on
JIC Oltn IOlh VI tuC 1ttOldShd IIhCI,
and the beautiful groves Of cotton woods,
on the banks of the Humboldt, we are
disposed to cast has book aside as a fable.
ave look upon Fremont as a mere adj
venturer, as unfit for the position his am
bitien leads him to aspire to, as he would
be to command an army. Truly, since
this nomination "no man is safe" The
next conventions may bring out Douglas,
the negro editor of Rochester, or Wemah
the great Chief of the Digger Tribes of
he Pacific Ranges"
Such are some of the opinions enter
f tanned by men who came in contact with
the sayings and doings of Fremont, the
Abolition or Black Republican candidate
for the Presidency. And We cannot bet
5 ter close this article than by the following
extract from an exchange:
ellis success in the world is due rather
to the favor of fortune, than to any great
qualities of his own. Essentially a char
~latan, he has contrived to get credit for
NIltuCS NhitH hC DOocSSc, Uiiu "
achievements which he did not perform.
His whole life is q specious imposture.
"The stain of illegitimacy attaches to
all his prctensions. Without a military
: education, he yet claims to be accomplish
ed in all the arts of war He is repnted
a valiant soldier, although he has manag-
4 ed with such skill as never to have been
exposed to the hazards of actual battle.
True, he has achieved distinction for dar-
ing adventure; but then he is the histo-
rian of his own exploits; and who will
avouch the fidelity of the chronicle Ac-
l cident raised him to the Senate, where he
= was observed only as the silent shadow
of Benton. His term of service was
short, and SO rapidly did he sink in pub
, lie esteem that his application for re-
{ election was Indignantly rejected by an
appreciative constituency.
"And now, this warrior who never