Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-08-28
1Dolitiral,
The Hand of God Visible in Ere
mont's Nornina ton.
THE REPUBLICAN, cANDIDATE-

Dr.. LEAvIr, and the Rev. HENRY WARD BgecHsR.
As our readers we'll know, we were not Of
he number of those who urged mcst slrenu-
,usly the selection of Col Fremont BY the Con-
sention at Philadelphia, as the siandard-bearer,
n the great political campaign which is now up
On us, Of those principles of justice, humanity
md liberty TO which our earnest adherence is
given While highly approaching, and heartily
adnifing, Tie noble ana sigaaiq rs s;i.s.
gentleman, we felt desire that if possible
some we'll tried Captain in the ranks, which so
long have stood unconquered for the Right,
should be selected to lead them TO the victory
which is now, we must trust and be ieve, before
them But since this selection has been made.
we are lvd most clearly to recognize in it the
good hand OF God and to feel, as almost never
have felt hitherto. that Providence has raised up,
has endowed and has trained this workman for
his office, the Man for the Hour. IF the elec-
ton in November shall result, as we are well
persuaded that it will, in placing him in the
chair of the President of these United States.
then we are compelled to say that in no one in
stance in all The History of our nation, since the
freight of the Mayhower was landed at Ply
mouth, will the guiding and governing mind Of
God, interposing for our protection, have been
more clearly shown than in raising him up to
meet this crisis.
Young, uEworn, entirely fresh in political life,
there are upon him 10 marks of past controver-
sizes. there are upon him no odors of past polit-
ical errors, or pdriizan wrongs. Of an nven
tive, prompt and discriminating mind, as all his
history shows, and now in the full and perfect
prime of every power, he is able to meet, if any
man can, the whole demand of the present
emergency. Of French extraction, on his faith
ey's side, he is yet thoroughly an American by
birth, by training, by his maternal ancestry, and
by all his ideas of government aud of religion,
Born in Georgia, and educated at the inslitu
tions of South Carolina. his chosen home has
still been at the West, and his ardor for Free
dom has never failed or wavered child of
poverty, and man Of the people, his career has
been more sgnay heroic than that of any other
living American and he has won his steady
way to opulence and honor through the unac
cuslomed paths Of selfdcnial and for,itude.
Delicate in frame, entirely modest and uuassum-
lag 'lrrortrrr;7- he l,ae irer:-c1 thu 1--we sf
the stalwart and fiery pioneers Of the West as
almost no man before has done and h is name
would now rally thousands on the borders to any
most difficult and hazardous enterprise OF ex-
traordinary executive and administrative powers,
he combines with these equally the taste of the
scholar the practiced eGierp ise and skill of the
soldier His name is as well known in the Old
World as in the New. And while the South
has furnished his birlhp ac', and the wilderness
of iheWest the chosen scene Of his chief cxer
tions, California, the youngest and weallhiest
of the States, owes to him her exploration and
her subsequent conquest, and 10 him in grea,
part her present freedom. The country, there
iole, and every part of it, has an interest in his
name. The young men of the country, especi-
ally, must rally to him as their natural lender,
with real enthusiasm. His very name seems
waichword for Liberty; and already crowds
make the echoes ring with the stirring REFRAIN
of Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Men, and
FREEMoNT
With him in the Presidential chair, the last
threat of disunion will speedily and forever be
sienced al the South. TIE bravos who steal
unsuspected into the Senate Chamber, and whose
only reply to an argument is the bludeeon, will
be as whist as London pckpocket with the
policeman beside him, before the intrepid and
self-poiscd will of him who has raced the noun
tain SHOWS while they were daintly dallyine at
home; of him whom Indians and Mexicans
could not scare though with tenfold his force
now welding the treasury and the army OF
the country. Nay, with him in that chair VIC have
the frmest conviction that all sections will feel
safe, and that speedy calm will succeed the re-
cent aud the present agiiat'ons while his life
and his words give him the amp'est guarantee
the the influence of the Government will all be
employed en- the side of freedom and its bengl
order.
1t is somewhat curious to notice the striking
correspondence between the history of this
young Republican Captain and that of him whom
our fathers took as their leaders in the first grea
struggle for Liberty on this continent par
of these have been noticed by the papers and by
speakers. Others we have not seen referred to
They are interesting and suggestive. Washing
ton was left in childhood, by the death of his
J father, to charge of his mother. Fremont was
so likewise, at still earlier period, and in cir
cumslances certainly much less suspicious
Washington had early passion for the sea, So
strong that midshipman' warrant was obtained
for him by his friends. Fremont went to sea-
and was there employed for more than 'w"
wears. Washington was introduced 10 puolic
life through his service on the fron'iefs' as sur
yeyor and civil engineer Fremont won MS ois
cipline and his early fame in the same depart
ment and by his use and practice IN 1t became
fitted. in mind and body to" endure hardness "
Washington learned all that he knew OF war IN
Indian combats and the strife of the Wilderness
and rose thus 10 the rank of Colonel in Provln'
cial troops. Fremonts school was the same
and he has pained the same rank. Washington
had had small experience as legislator, until he
was called to the head Of the Government. lie
was taken for his well-tried general qualities,
and not for any distinction he had achieved as a
diplomatist or a statesman and here again the
parallel holds. Washington was sneered at by