Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-10-23
The washington Stand.still and
the Western CIo-ahead.

It would be sad If mankind are to be mu-
tilated, killed, robbed ard taxed by sci
ence too deep and intricate for them to
form any opinion about. The Washing
ton plan is The establishment Of grand
military school in sight Of the city, and
not to allow the cadets to march out OF
the parade ground till fully instructed
The advantages Of this plan are yet TO be
seen. While 100000 soldiers are learn
ing tie art of war there, the union men
in eastern Virginia find themselves desert
ed, their property, land, cattle and ne
groes are con6scated and they driven into
exile; still the telegraph informs US that
our army at Washington Is learning fast.
and by the end Of the present month will
be qualified to take possession Of IFS win
ter quarters. 1t is true if we were to in
wade Virginia we will have TO import union
men and settle them in Virginia by the
force Of arms. for our friends there have
been driven out long since. Suppose Ere
mout had aped the military savans at
Washington, at this time he would have
been in possession of district of country
ten miles square around St. Louis, teach
ing military school, or rather district
school: no regiment would be allowed to
march out of sight Of the city to defend
a union ncighborhood or rout band Of
rebel marauders, unless il had graduated
at this military school; Price and McLul-
loch must be allowed to bis very lines, fire
at his scholars, try their nerves by threat
ening to shoot at them with wooden can
non, and exercise their vigilance by night
alarms. The season for activity passes
away, the rebels remain in possession of
the state outside Of the parade ground,
ariye union men into exile, Five upon their
propert', and leave no yestige Of loyalty
for our future invading army to build up
on. But The Fremont plan assumed that
the best school for the soldier was active
service. He marched raw regiments against
the enemy the same day they entered the
state. His troops, he supposed, were equal
in discipline and superior in courage to the
rebel hordes that fought one week and
farmed the next. He did not spend the
entire summer and fall in fling and drum
ming, marching and countermarching about
his Notifications in St. Louis, inviting the
rebels to overrun the state, and even be-
siege him in bis parade grounds. Price is
ROY fleeing before bis raw volunteers, and
bidding farewell 70 Missouri for awhile
The union men in Missouri are held to
some extent in possession Of the soil; FIRE.
mont aud his army dare to leave their In
tronehments and aive relief to loyal men
scattered through the interior Of the
state. 1t is true the expulsion Of Price
may not be of lasting benefit, as the reb-
els will leave the army, 90 back to their
farms and play the role of Union mon un.
til the army is called off in another direc-
ton. But the fault lies moi with Fremont.
Had his method been followed these farms
would have gone INTO loyal hands before
this, and every farm would have been
union fortress Emigration from the free
states would have followed the army, for
Fremont's plan would have made Nilsson
ri q free State, once conquered If
would have ever remained loyal. Fremont
saw that the political power of treason is
to great extent founded upon property,
and this power cannot be shaken until the
property is taken away That treason will
retain its power in Missouri, even after its
organized armies are scattered, is owing to
the Washington interference, not to Ere
mont. BY the way, how are the Washing
ton professors to answer this question::
They removed five or six regiments to
Washington ut the time of Prices move
ment into Missouri, and with these regi-
ments certainly Lexington would have
been safe, and in all probability Price him
self would have been captured; now what
have these regiments been doing at Wash
ington up to the present timel Nothing
but eating United States beef and pork
For all that outsiders can see, Fremont
might have used these regiments in de-
tending Missouri and captured Price, and
then have sent them to Washington weeks
before Gen. Mcclellan is really to make
demonstration. The army at Washington
must have the best arms for the intended
advance. 1t seems to outsiders that as
long as the army on the Potomac is drill
ling they might use anything in the shape
of a gun. Fremont, only half supplied
With arms. procules pixies and lances man
nfactuFsd BY the smiths in st. Louis, and
is Wiling to fight the rebels with the prim-
tive arms Of Cesar and Alexander. Fro
mont, to say the least, has held his own in
| Missouri, and protect to some extent the
entire state with one ianth Of the forces re-
qniret in Virginia to protect Washington.
II i true that III Missouri there is no In
trenched rebel army of 100000 men, but
the activity Of Lyon ana Fremont has
alone prevented such i concentration. If
Fremont had opened military school in
ST. Louis on the same plan as mat Of Gen.
/ Scott, there is no doubt the rebels ere this
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