New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-07
GEN. FREMoNT-CoL. BLAIR.
Fro. The Cincinnati Enquirer.

Fyou The Cincinnati Enquirer
CHARGES AND SPECIFICATIONS AGAINST COL.
HIAIR-sRs. FRFNONT's LETTER TO PRES
IDEST LRCOLN-THE PRESIDENTS REPLY
GEN FREMoST'S DEMAND FOR COL.
BIAIR's LETTER--POsTMAsTER BLAlRS AN
sWER-THE LETTER OF COL. BLAIR ABOUT
GEN. FREMONT, &C.
Daring the past month the country ias been dis
turbed by the unfrendly relations that have sprung
M suddenly between Maj.-Gen Fremont, Com
mapder Of the Western Division Of the Army, and
Col. Frank P. Blair, jr. Of the Let Regiment Mis-
souri, Volunteers Qght artillery. The letter of
Col. Blair to Judge Blair, his brother, and Post
msster-G General, was Immediately brought before
the President and the Cabinet, and a vigorous dis
cu.sion ensued for the removal Of Gen. Fremont,
but resulted in the postPonement Of such de-
csion for the present, the President and majority
of the Cabne. being unqualiediy adverse to the re-
moval.
Mrs. Fremont, who was in Washington at the
time, received information of Col Blair's attack on
Gen. Fremont, and Immediately wrote to the Presi-
dent requesting copy of Col. BIS letter. The
President declined to furnish Col Blars letter and
in the same letter disclaimed any hostility to the
General, or that any impression had been made on
his mind against tho honor or integrity Of Gen.
Fremont. Gen. Fremont then telegraphed the
President, requesting copy Of Col Blairs letter,
rnd through Judge Montgomery Blair the letter OF
,he Colonel was forwarded TO Gen. Fremont, accom-
pansd with request that the Colonel should be re-
eased from arrest. The offer Of release was ex-
tended to Col Blair, at the request Of the Post
master. General, but the Colonel declined the Offer
and is now at Jefferson Barracks, awaiting the ex-
animation before Court Martial. The charges and
specifications by Gen. Fremont, with all the CORE
,pondence accompanying, we give below:
FIRsT CHARGE.--Conduct unbecoming an officer
and gentleman. NJ
SDtcjfcation.-That said Col Frank Z. Blair,
bie acting AS Colonel of the lst Regiment Missouri
i nj Artillery, then In the service Of the United
States and in the Western Department thereof, dd,
at the CITY of ST. Louis in the State of Missouri, on
diyers occafions between the list and 2Uth day OF
September, 1866, speak OF and concerning MAJOR
Gen j. C.. Fremont, who was then the Commanding
General of said Department, in terms unbecomlngan
officer and gentleman assalng ms personal ana
official character, charging him with inability and
ineRciency; that said Blair used his position Us
member of the military household Of the Command
ing General, TO give weight 10 his assaults.
Scrond Specifcdtioa.-That said Col Blair made
secret charges agantt bis said Commanding Eeneral
in a letter which he wrote the first day OF Sep
tember 1861, to his brother, Montgomery BLAIR,
of the United States, one Of the
president's Cabinet officers, wherein be sought TO
sGsctnate the removal of said Commanding Gen.
oral Said charges were made, not TO the Secretary
~ IVor or the Commander-in-Chie Of the army,
but 10 the Postmaster-G General, his brother; thus
nsno his family relations with the Cabinet to get
secret. insidious, unsus,ained and ungentlemanly
charges against said Commanding General before
tba President of the United States hls purpose beng
IN have amounted, without consultation with the
military authorities, a commissioner 10 investigate
lie tirs and management OF said Western Depart
en no he directed by and TO consist in part OF the
brother of said Col. Blair, the aceuser.
Chat said yexatious and harassing proceedings
were calculated to- and did in part disturb the Pres
dnntis confidence in said Commanding General and
the administration of the affairs of said Western
Department.
That said COL Blair's course also impaired and
psralyzed the efficiency Of said Military Depart
ment.
Third pecfca!ion.-That said Col. Blair wrote
said letters TO his brother Montgomery Blair for the
purpose OF eeeing the removalof his said Command
ing General, without ailording hin az opportuni'y
Of defense. ,,..-
CHARGE SEcoND.-That said Col. Frank r. Biair'
while acting the Colonel Of the LIST Regiment MIS-
souri, Light Artillery, while in the service OF Ihe
Army Of the United States, and in the Western DE.
partnent thereof wrote and carried, TO De puonShed
over bis own signature, in The Missouri Democrat,
an article on the subject of said Bairs arrest, to
answer the charges herein preferred against him, In
which article occurs the following language, VIZ;
" 1 assure you meaning the editors Oh Said news
papersl, whether you believe me or not, that 90
not even shrink from the pompous threats whcn ap-
pear ia your columns but whose uaiaRilsr garo be-