Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-09-15

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The Government and General Fremont
The Coming Man.
Contradicted, as the telegraphic reports.
have been, in respect to the disapproval of
his proclamation by the Government, and of
his displacement from his Western COM
mand, there is enough in the symptoms of
General Fremonts case to lead to the suspi-
cion that there is something between him
and the Administration besides the utmost
cordially and kindness of feeling. This is
a fact which, in spite of the denisls-as des.
titute of apparent authority as the allega-
tions-seems to reside in the common con-
sciousness; and is as visible in the touchy
and captious paragraphs that are put forth in
his favor, as in the equally touchy and cap
tious ones that are put forth upon the other
side. Whether this want of cordially will
lead to an ultimate disruption between him
and the Government is a question which
they who can afford to wait had better leave
to the future to determine.
1t Is real disadvantage to all our rising
men-General Fremont as well as others
that large class of the people seem resolutely
determined to take them upon trust: to con-
fer fame upon them before they have earned
it. Amid the excitements and apprehensons
which this war has occasioned-in which
nothing is so manifest as the inadequacy to
its exigeEcies of our politicians and men in
public life-there is general disposition to
look up to every new man as the right one
and to create upon the foundation of our ig-
norance of his real qualities, a neurological
hero, endowed with every attribute that for
the time being is thought to be desirable.
Whenever men are in trouble-which always
happens when the present man is not up to
the times-the world looks instinctively and
earnestly for him who twas to come" It
implicitly believes in the maxim that when
the exigency arrives the man will rise who
| is destined to meet it; and consequently is
ready to accept whoever puts on the aspect
which it had imagined he would present. II
forgets that the true Messiah always appears
amid crowd of false ones; and that he
is usually the last of all to gain recognition
and worship from the multitude.
We do not certainly know that General
Fremont is not the man for the emergency;
and that is, at this time, about the sum and
extent of our knowledge. He may be the
man; but all except his partisans-for Gen
eral Fremont has already plenty of parti,
sans as con6ding, as faithful and as unscru'
pulous as partisans generally are-will bt
willing to admit that he may not. We
really know but little about him; and thai
little is of character to appear very differ.
entity in the eyes of different person. as, fol
exsmple:
General Fremont has "taken the response
bility." He has not waited to ask leaveSSo
the Administration, or to consult with it
but has gone on, examining the case, de-
termining what to do, and overriding al
rules, laws and official formalities, in pre-
pairing the means to do it.
Now we may as well state here, that W
do not know, neither does the public, tina
General Fremont has done this. He ma
have acted in implicit obedience to order
from his superiors, in every thing he ha
done; but it is the opinion of his friend
and this is the ground of their admiratio
for him, that he is acting with little regar
to laws or instructions. 1t is what his oppC
nents charge, and what his admirers adm
and applaud; and, therefore, we accept it {
proven, Whether the real Fremont is q
outlaw and a usurper or not, the mytholog
cal Fremont is both and, strange as it ma
seem in an American people, it is upon tb
ground that he is trusted and admired.
We admit, to the fullest extent, the do,
trine that when Government is threatene
with destruction, themagnitude of the daI
ger is the measure of the efforts that Shou,
be made to avert it. The fact Of the Cover
ment is ofgreater value than any of its sui
sidiary institutions; and when that is in jeo
ardy, the law Of necessity oVerrides
others, however conyentionally sacred thu
may have been esteemed. But this doctril
does not justify an inferior officer in aotiI
I independently of the Government und
5 which he holds his position; nor will t
: people Of the United States, in their cool
moments, approve Of such acts, nor enterta
8 permanent feelings of respect for the man
whom they are committed. .s
Whether or not, therefore, General Fl
It mont has assumed to act independently
!. the Government, his friends do him an inju
by presenting him in that aspect; and
: they are, at the same time friends of Gene
Fremont and of the Administration, they
doing more injury to the latter by sanetiC
ing disrespect to its authority than could
done by all the newspaper organs of Sec
sion sentiment were they twenty times